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Mr. JD Vance. It's an honor to be with you here in New York City today on September 11th. And what a somber and difficult day for a lot of people. And we've got a lot to remember. And we've got a lot to be thankful for today as well. Well, thanks for having me, man. It's good to see you. It's my pleasure. It's my pleasure.
So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about 9-11 and just get some of your personal stories. So where were you on September 11th, 2001?
Yeah, so I was at the school library, Middletown High School, and I remember that because we were sort of in our library session and everybody flipped on the TVs in the library because the World Trade Center was under attack. And I think we were still in that phase where it was not totally clear whether it actually was an attack or whether it was just an accident.
But I was a junior in high school and just sort of watched the day unfold. And obviously we didn't do a lot of schoolwork that day. All of us were just glued to the TV. And I remember going home and, you know, for one reason, the memory that really sticks out, because I lived with my grandmother at the time, you know, my grandmother raised me, is we were really worried about gas, right?
Because we sort of realized this is an attack from the Middle East. We didn't know who, we didn't know any of the background, but I just remember like taking my grandmother's car and then a family member's car and waiting in line for gas because we wanted to like make sure the tanks were filled up in case something crazy happened in the Middle East.
And there's just a sense of instability and uncertainty, right? Like we didn't know what was going on. We didn't know if that was going to be the last attack. And of course, you know, for people in New York, like I had never been in New York in my entire life, but sort of gotten to know the perspective of a lot of people since then.
And, you know, even just some of the stories I've heard today, like we went to a fire station with President Trump after the memorial ceremony this morning at Ground Zero. And, you know, there's this plaque in the fire station of this guy who died on 9-11, this firefighter who died on 9-11. And there's like, you know, all these little trinkets and,
and sort of pieces of the guy's life there to memorialize him by. And it sort of hit me that talking to people and seeing some of this stuff, that he had a son that was born on September the 13th, 2001. So his wife was pregnant with her fourth child. He goes in, he loses his life, and two days later, she delivers her fourth child. And I met that kid today. And so his 23rd birthday is in two days.
And I talked with his older brother and his older sister. And, you know, it's, what you realize, I mean, I have three little kids. I have a seven-year-old, a four-year-old, and a two-year-old is. Like, each of these kids remembers their dad differently, right? So the guy who was four when his dad died, you know, it was just kind of phantoms of a memory, right? He remembers a face or a smile.
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