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I'm from South Carolina.

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Lexington, South Carolina, to be exact.

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Born and raised.

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My name is Michael Smoak.

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Everybody just calls me Smoak.

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I've been called
by my last name my entire life.

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Everybody from when I was a child
has called me Smoak.

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If you call me Michael,
I'm in big trouble. So…

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I was five years old when 9/11 happened.

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I didn't really know what was going on,

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but I could tell
by the emotion in the room

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that something serious had happened.

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I was actually home sick
from school that day.

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I was at my grandmother's house,

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and I remember me, her,
and my granddad watching it on the TV.

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I just remember both of them
standing up out of their chairs

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and kind of walked towards the TV,
getting closer to it.

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It looks like
a big chunk of it has just peeled away.

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One can only hope that the area
has been evacuated, but of course…

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I started to understand 9/11
more and more as I got older.

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I understood what happened,
but not really why it happened.

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Later, on YouTube,
I saw videos of the war…

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Target!

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…and I wanted to serve my country.

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I don't even remember
where I heard the term "Marine Corps,"

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but I just remember
looking at all the videos

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and the uniforms
and all that stuff on the internet.

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I was like, "That's gonna be me one day."

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"I'm going to be a Marine
when I get older."

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We got told that we were going in
for a non-combative evacuation.

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The war in Afghanistan is over.

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This puts an end to America's longest war.
Twenty years, 2,400 lives lost.

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And then it got pretty crazy.

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This was nearly 20 years after 9/11.

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And what started on 9/11

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ended right here at Abbey Gate.

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My thoughts were, "What the hell
have we been doing for 20 years?"

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If they didn't have the right paperwork,

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most of the time,
you're sending them to their death,

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which is a pretty crazy responsibility
for a 23-year-old.

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Move!

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We're at a moment in American life

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when the events of 9/11 are beginning

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to slip meaningfully
from living memory into history.

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At some point in the next couple of years,

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we will cross the point
where 50% of Americans

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were born after 9/11 or were too young
to remember the events of that day.

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Now they're learning about the attacks

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and seeing those images from the day
in school.

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It's just, like, taught as,

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it happened, and we should
just know that it happened.

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I haven't really heard of it much
outside of, like, the anniversary of 9/11.

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It just feels like another part of
the wars that we've learned about

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because I wasn't alive for it
or there for it.

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On 9/11, I was in English class.

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I was in 11th grade.

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I think we were
the only Muslims at school.

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I was ten months old on September 11th.

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A lot of times
I feel kind of like collateral.

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I had just turned three years old.

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I was probably getting my diaper changed.

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I was three years old.

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I just turned four.

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That's 25 years past.

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It's basically a generation
since the attacks.

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It's critical to know
the pain and the grief.

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The ramifications of 9/11 are evolving.

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And even some consequences from that event

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are still unfolding to this day.

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25 years later,
the current generation lives in

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a world that was created by 9/11.

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We had a sense back then
that we were at a transformative moment.

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And we were.

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I was asleep.

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I was an undergrad at NYU at that time.

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I was living in Lower Manhattan,

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and I felt a loud sound.

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That was an explosion.
That was an explosion.

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Holy shit!

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I turned the TV on.

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We have a breaking news story
to tell you about.

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Apparently, a plane has just crashed
into the World Trade Center here in…

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That's all we had,
is the main television stations.

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I don't mean to interrupt the fun,
but this is a breaking news story.

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A plane has crashed…

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-Hold it… Into the World Trade Center.
-You're kidding!

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We have no further details.

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We don't know anything about
what they have concluded happened there.

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So anyway, we go on now. How are you?

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-I know you're in shock.
-I'm really in shock.

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I've never… I don't know what to say.

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CNN Center right now
is just beginning to work on this story,

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obviously calling our sources and trying
to figure out exactly what happened.

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…fire is nowhere near under control…

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For 10 years, I was an oral historian

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and curator at the 9/11 Museum,

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recording oral histories with survivors,
first responders, family members.

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If you're trying
to have hope for a generation,

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I think that helping them
understand what happened

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is an important part
of creating good for the future.

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When these people become real
and this event becomes personal,

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that's the most powerful way
to understand, ultimately,

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what this was and why it mattered.

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Police operator 133, what's the emergency?

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I'm on the 100th floor of
the World Trade Center with 30 people.

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People are calling 911.

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They're reporting being trapped.

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They're reporting being stuck.

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How are you doing?
This is the fire department.

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Hi. It's hard to talk.

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-Yeah.
-A lot of smoke.

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-Right.
-The heat…

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We're all overreacting.
Please come right now.

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-What floor are you on?
-100 Northeast.

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All right.

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It's too hot!

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What's your phone number there?

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I'm on a cell phone.

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All right, no problem. We'll get to you.

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-Please, immediately.
-They're on the way.

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Really, the only thing
that people can say is,

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"Hang on, we're coming for you.
We'll be there as soon as we can."

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Our son, Brad, had just graduated
from Bucknell University.

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On September 11th, he was working
on the 89th floor of the South Tower.

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Hey, Mom, it's Brad.

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I just wanted to call
and let you know, I'm sure that you heard

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that a plane crashed
into World Trade Center One.

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We're fine,
we're in World Trade Center Two.

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I'm not…
I'm obviously alive and well over here.

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But obviously a pretty scary experience.

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For most people, it was just
a confusing, atrocious accident.

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They believe it was an airplane.

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I'm going to go watch the news now.

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We thought we were invincible,
but we also thought we were invulnerable.

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In other words,
that no one could attack us.

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9/11 shatters that complacency.

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…get through, and I'm far away right now,

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I thought it might be
a little dangerous to get too close.

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I saw lots of debris coming…

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You see in that moment
between 8:46 and 9:03

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how innocent America actually is.

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In those 17 minutes,
America still felt innocent.

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And as fire crews
are descending on this area,

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it does not appear that there's
any kind of an effort up there yet.

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Now remember-- Oh my God!

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My God. My…

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That looks like a second plane.

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It was a jet. It was
a very large plane. It was going fast.

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It went past the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
that's being built in Battery Park.

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It went through right past, almost hit it…

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…and then went in.

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So this looks like
it is some sort of a concerted effort

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to attack the World Trade Center
that is underway in downtown New York.

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My name is Andrew Ansbro.

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I joined the FDNY in February of 2001.

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I was assigned to Engine 58 in Harlem.

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On September 11th, I was 29 years old.

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I was the new guy.

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You know, I was actually
getting off a 24-hour shift

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when, uh, you know, the first plane hit.

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We got assigned to the second
fifth alarm, which was the South Tower.

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You get the alarm, get the adrenaline.

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I thought, "Here we are,
we're going down there to put it out."

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The street was very different.

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Everyone got out of the way of the rig,
and, uh, people were cheering for us.

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It was like being a gladiator
heading down to battle.

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Everyone was, you know,
cheering and clapping as we're going.

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And I just remember
passing a block in the 70s

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and focusing on this one person who was
standing there looking at us, crying.

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And then it hit me.

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Shit.

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And then the lieutenant said,

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"Listen, make no mistake,

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everyone above that fire
is dead or gonna die."

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Thousands, tens of thousands of people

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actually work inside those two buildings

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in the heart
of New York's financial district.

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You could see the fire,
the flames, and all the smoke.

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And I said, "Oh my God, my wife is there."

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She worked on the 96th floor,

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but I was hoping for the best.

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My daughter was two years old.

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A few days later, she just started
screaming and crying, calling her mother.

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That's when it hit me.

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People are coming down the stairwells.

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It is smoky, depending on where you were.

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It is crowded.

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There's women wearing
full stiletto heels walking down

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many, many stairs.

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People describe people helping each other
in the stairwells.

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There were stations set up by responders
to provide people with oxygen.

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People were being handed water.

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There's this moment
when the first responders

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are gathering
at the incident command post,

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and they're preparing to go up
and developing their strategy.

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And somebody looked at the little group
that was about to go up the stairs

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and said, "We may not live through today."

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And they took a moment
to shake each other's hands.

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All that we know…
All that we know right now

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is that two airplanes struck the two
large towers of the World Trade Center.

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Stand by. Just stand by. We'll get 'em.

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There was no question
that the city was being attacked.

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Later, we realized it was the country.

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Another plane is headed
towards Washington, D.C.

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I'm An Nguyen.

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I am the son of Khang Nguyen,

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who was working
at the Pentagon on September 11th.

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My father, he was born in South Vietnam.

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And then he came to America
after the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

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But he is a testament of
basically the American dream.

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There were opportunities here in the US

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that was not given to him when he was
younger back in Vietnam.

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My father was an electrical engineer

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with the Navy Command Center
at the Pentagon.

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I'd just turned four.

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I was in preschool,

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and on that Tuesday morning,

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when my mom was taking me out
to the bus to go to preschool,

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my father ran towards the bus

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to just say goodbye to me one more,
just one last… one last time.

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At 9:37, Flight 77 crashed
into the E ring of the Pentagon.

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Engine 101, …

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105 is on the scene.
I have a …

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…transport, the Pentagon.

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It would appear that
there has been another major explosion,

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this one in the nation's capital.

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You are looking at a scene
of apparent blast aftermath.

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There is smoke in the air
over the Pentagon.

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I just went home when preschool ended.

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And I was just waiting for my father
to show up on the driveway with his car.

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And I just kept waiting and waiting…

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just hoping that he would come home.

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With the days that followed,
especially the funeral,

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that's when I realized
that he's not coming back home.

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An outpour of tears started to show.

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Terrorism is a word
that you will never understand

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in any visceral way
until you experience it.

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I did not know how to come to terms

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with a loss of that magnitude,

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but I knew that
my life would change forever.

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And now I'm trying to make an identity
within a world

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without having my father by my side.

245
00:17:19,371 --> 00:17:21,874
The Pentagon is a private area.

246
00:17:21,957 --> 00:17:23,417
It's a lower building.

247
00:17:24,501 --> 00:17:26,587
And the force of the plane,

248
00:17:26,670 --> 00:17:28,464
the amount of jet fuel,

249
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:32,217
and the size and structure of the building

250
00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:34,970
creates like an inferno.

251
00:17:41,852 --> 00:17:43,353
And at the same time,

252
00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:46,398
the South Tower was burning
for 56 minutes.

253
00:17:49,818 --> 00:17:52,362
The impact zone was a little bit lower.

254
00:17:57,159 --> 00:18:02,956
So an hour burning
at extremely hot temperatures,

255
00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,960
ultimately the building
began to pull into itself.

256
00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:17,387
At some point there was
a deep rumble in the earth.

257
00:18:17,471 --> 00:18:18,764
It felt like an earthquake.

258
00:18:25,896 --> 00:18:28,816
We saw a whole bunch of cops
lined up like a roll call.

259
00:18:28,899 --> 00:18:30,442
Then they just started running.

260
00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:33,112
We thought something
was falling out of the sky.

261
00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:36,365
Or there was a disturbance
because they all ran north.

262
00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:40,285
What we didn't know was that
the police officers in the helicopter

263
00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:41,829
had radioed down to them.

264
00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:44,414
The top of the South Tower
had started to twist.

265
00:18:44,498 --> 00:18:45,791
And they could see it.

266
00:18:49,044 --> 00:18:50,462
They told them to evacuate.

267
00:18:52,172 --> 00:18:53,757
None of us got that message.

268
00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,595
There was a man named Sean Rooney

269
00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:01,598
who called his wife, Beverly Eckert.

270
00:19:03,725 --> 00:19:07,104
They connect over the phone,
and he's trapped.

271
00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:10,065
It was about 9:30 a.m. when he called.

272
00:19:11,024 --> 00:19:13,819
And he told me he was on the 105th floor.

273
00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:19,116
And he'd been trying to find a way out.

274
00:19:20,367 --> 00:19:25,372
He told me that he hadn't had any success
and now the stairwell was full of smoke.

275
00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:30,377
We stopped talking about escape routes.

276
00:19:32,796 --> 00:19:34,464
And then we just began talking about

277
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:37,843
all the happiness we shared
during our lives together.

278
00:19:40,846 --> 00:19:43,849
He just kept whispering "I love you"
over and over.

279
00:19:45,309 --> 00:19:47,394
Then I heard a sharp crack,

280
00:19:47,477 --> 00:19:50,314
followed by the sound of an avalanche.

281
00:19:50,981 --> 00:19:51,982
Take two.

282
00:19:52,065 --> 00:19:53,775
Take two and two, one.

283
00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:56,570
This is as close as we can get
to the base of the World Trade Center.

284
00:19:56,653 --> 00:19:58,405
You see the firemen assembled here…

285
00:19:58,488 --> 00:20:00,407
…the police officers, FBI agents.

286
00:20:00,490 --> 00:20:02,993
And you can see the two towers.

287
00:20:03,076 --> 00:20:06,205
A huge explosion now,
raining debris on all of us.

288
00:20:06,288 --> 00:20:07,915
We better get out of the way!

289
00:20:10,125 --> 00:20:12,753
Come on, Glenn.
Come on, Glenn, you can do it, man.

290
00:20:14,254 --> 00:20:16,215
There was this loud crack and a boom.

291
00:20:16,298 --> 00:20:18,884
And you know…
Bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop.

292
00:20:18,967 --> 00:20:21,303
And that was the floors pancaking
and coming down.

293
00:20:24,097 --> 00:20:27,476
The street got dark
and went from day to night in seconds.

294
00:20:28,101 --> 00:20:32,773
So, instinctively, myself and whoever
came from the south, we ran south.

295
00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:37,569
Just now with a loud crash

296
00:20:37,653 --> 00:20:41,198
a building has collapsed!

297
00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:44,701
When the building hit the ground,
it kind of came over us

298
00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:46,995
and the air pressure
from the compressed air

299
00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:48,372
blew the windows in.

300
00:20:48,455 --> 00:20:50,415
Oh shit. Oh shit.

301
00:20:50,499 --> 00:20:51,708
We were airborne.

302
00:20:51,792 --> 00:20:54,586
I don't know how far I flew,
but I landed in a pile of people.

303
00:20:54,670 --> 00:21:00,550
And, uh, immediately your next breath
was like sucking in a cup full of sand.

304
00:21:00,634 --> 00:21:01,551
It was just…

305
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:04,972
And you're getting hit with,
you know, little pieces of debris.

306
00:21:05,055 --> 00:21:07,599
And you just say to yourself,
"This is how it ends."

307
00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:08,892
I hope I live.

308
00:21:08,976 --> 00:21:11,186
I hope I live. It's coming down on me.

309
00:21:11,812 --> 00:21:16,233
I ran just ahead of the front
of the smoke and I got under a car.

310
00:21:16,316 --> 00:21:18,860
There was a subway grate under the car,

311
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:23,573
and I used the subway grate to breathe
for the next three or four hours.

312
00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:26,285
It was too thick to see outside.

313
00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:31,290
At 10:28 a.m.,

314
00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:33,000
the North Tower collapsed,

315
00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,752
killing about 1,500 people

316
00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:38,505
who were unable
to make it out of the building.

317
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:54,688
Miss, get in here!
Get away from the glass.

318
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,815
All my shit is out there!

319
00:21:56,898 --> 00:21:58,191
My shit is out there!

320
00:21:58,275 --> 00:21:59,860
You want your life or your stuff?

321
00:21:59,943 --> 00:22:01,653
Wanna die? Don't worry about your shit.

322
00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:04,031
The building,
watch the debris come down the street.

323
00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:07,242
-Don't open the door.
-Get away from the windows.

324
00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:10,746
-Don't open the door!
-Here it comes! Get behind!

325
00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:12,956
Oh my God. Oh my God!

326
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,959
-Look at the shadow of death.
-Oh my God!

327
00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:20,088
You're right!
Oh, my God, you saved my life!

328
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,466
-I told you--
-You saved my life, thank you!

329
00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:30,432
Words cannot describe it,
except to say that the towers are gone.

330
00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:34,603
Church Street is littered with people
still lingering, uh, looking, watching.

331
00:22:34,686 --> 00:22:36,271
They don't know what to do.

332
00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:39,066
Some people are down
on their knees praying.

333
00:22:39,149 --> 00:22:42,027
You're looking at the collapse
of one of those towers right now.

334
00:22:42,110 --> 00:22:45,447
We now have an AP news alert
out of Pittsburgh.

335
00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:48,450
Officials at Somerset County Airport
are confirming

336
00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:51,370
the crash of a large plane
just north of the airport.

337
00:23:01,922 --> 00:23:03,256
I'm Laurel Homer.

338
00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:06,009
I was 10 months old on September 11th.

339
00:23:07,302 --> 00:23:09,304
Is that on his wedding day?

340
00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:10,305
Yeah.

341
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:14,434
I'm the daughter of Leroy Homer.

342
00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:24,778
My dad was the copilot on Flight 93.

343
00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:32,244
There were 44 people on Flight 93.

344
00:23:34,621 --> 00:23:38,625
And because the flight
is already underway,

345
00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:41,211
a lot of the passengers on the flight

346
00:23:41,294 --> 00:23:44,464
are getting information from the outside

347
00:23:44,548 --> 00:23:47,092
about the attacks unfolding in New York,

348
00:23:47,175 --> 00:23:48,760
and then later the Pentagon.

349
00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:55,016
There were 37 calls
that were exchanged on that flight,

350
00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:56,893
messages that were left.

351
00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,021
Elsa, it's Lin.

352
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:04,693
Um, I only have a minute.
I'm on United 93 and it's been hijacked

353
00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,446
by terrorists who say they have a bomb.

354
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:11,199
Apparently they've flown a couple of
planes into the World Trade Center,

355
00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:13,952
and it looks like they're going
to take this one down as well.

356
00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:16,621
Mostly I just wanted to say I love you…

357
00:24:16,705 --> 00:24:18,832
…and I'm going to miss you.

358
00:24:20,041 --> 00:24:21,710
And, and…

359
00:24:21,793 --> 00:24:24,713
please give my love to Mom and Dad, and…

360
00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:31,344
Mostly I just love you,
and I just wanted to tell you that.

361
00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:35,599
I don't know if I'm going to get
a chance to tell you that again or not.

362
00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:40,729
The assumed target
we now know was the United States Capitol.

363
00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:48,653
They understood that
they were on a suicide mission

364
00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:53,950
and they understood pretty quickly
that it was up to them to do something.

365
00:24:54,784 --> 00:25:01,625
The, uh, remains of an airplane
crash over on, uh, Lambertsville Road.

366
00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:07,923
And the passengers decide
with the crew to charge the cockpit.

367
00:25:09,674 --> 00:25:14,763
Ultimately, the hijackers made
the decision to down the plane.

368
00:25:19,643 --> 00:25:24,648
They diverted the plane from where
the terrorists wanted it to crash into,

369
00:25:24,731 --> 00:25:28,485
and they saved a lot of people
in doing that.

370
00:25:33,073 --> 00:25:37,744
It's hard. Like, obviously I'm grateful
that more devastation wasn't caused,

371
00:25:37,827 --> 00:25:39,454
but at the same time, like,

372
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,456
I still lost him, so…

373
00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:45,377
it's kind of a… struggle,

374
00:25:45,460 --> 00:25:48,588
because it's like, I know he was a hero,
but I wish he didn't have to be.

375
00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:52,759
My mom, she told me at one point

376
00:25:52,842 --> 00:25:55,387
she thought
she was going to die of heartbreak.

377
00:25:57,264 --> 00:25:59,516
She was, like, devastated…

378
00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:05,397
and she has this young kid
that she needs to take care of.

379
00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:10,193
My entire life was
kind of built around this.

380
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,905
I'm still struggling so much,

381
00:26:13,989 --> 00:26:17,033
and it has taken over my whole…

382
00:26:17,951 --> 00:26:18,868
my whole life.

383
00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:27,002
Good evening.

384
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:30,088
Today our fellow citizens,

385
00:26:30,171 --> 00:26:31,506
our way of life,

386
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:34,426
our very freedom came under attack

387
00:26:34,509 --> 00:26:38,096
in a series of deliberate
and deadly terrorist acts.

388
00:26:44,227 --> 00:26:48,773
There are four attacks,
and almost 3,000 people die.

389
00:26:53,194 --> 00:26:58,491
But what that misses is what it was like
to live and experience 9/11.

390
00:27:03,997 --> 00:27:09,753
That we miss the fear, the chaos,
the confusion and the trauma of that day.

391
00:27:11,504 --> 00:27:13,298
They say someone needs help.

392
00:27:14,341 --> 00:27:16,843
We didn't know when the attacks began.

393
00:27:16,926 --> 00:27:18,094
…needs some water.

394
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:20,847
We didn't know when the attacks were over.

395
00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:23,058
We didn't know for much of the day

396
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:25,435
how many attacks there had been.

397
00:27:28,188 --> 00:27:32,692
We also didn't know whether
there was another wave of attacks coming

398
00:27:32,776 --> 00:27:34,527
in the afternoon of September 11th,

399
00:27:34,611 --> 00:27:36,363
didn't know what was coming
on September 12th.

400
00:27:36,446 --> 00:27:40,742
We didn't know
what was coming in October or in 2002.

401
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:50,585
If you miss the fear, the chaos,
the confusion and the trauma,

402
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:57,425
you miss the entire reason that the US
ends up responding in the way that we did.

403
00:28:06,226 --> 00:28:11,064
This was an epochal change
in American life.

404
00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:16,695
The feeling of violation

405
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:20,865
made it feel like anything could happen.

406
00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:24,619
Like the pit had opened up.

407
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:29,332
The skies had rained fire,
and who knows what could come next.

408
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:34,337
It felt justified to go.

409
00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:37,716
Like, if we got attacked
and they killed a bunch of our people,

410
00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:40,885
obviously we should bring some justice
to those that did it.

411
00:28:44,597 --> 00:28:46,433
It's like a war right now in the world.

412
00:28:46,516 --> 00:28:48,101
-This is gonna start a war.
-Yeah.

413
00:28:48,184 --> 00:28:49,769
-This is gonna start a war.
-Yeah.

414
00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:51,896
It's gonna start a war. Sure, man. Hey.

415
00:28:53,022 --> 00:28:55,316
I heard grownups talk about it,

416
00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,280
so I started to understand more and more
as I got older that what happened,

417
00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:01,614
not really why it happened,

418
00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:04,242
but other than they didn't like Americans.

419
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,707
The way that
my mom described what happened

420
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:14,002
was that there were bad men on his plane.

421
00:29:17,338 --> 00:29:20,008
I knew that the terrorists were involved.

422
00:29:20,592 --> 00:29:22,302
I know they were coming
from the Middle East,

423
00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:26,347
but I didn't really fully understand,
what was the intention?

424
00:29:27,932 --> 00:29:29,601
Like, what was their goals?

425
00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:38,234
Tonight I ask for your prayers
for all those who grieve…

426
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:42,989
for the children whose worlds
have been shattered,

427
00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:47,410
for all whose sense of safety and security
has been threatened…

428
00:29:49,537 --> 00:29:53,291
and I pray they will be comforted
by a power greater than any of us.

429
00:29:53,374 --> 00:29:56,002
Spoken through the ages in Psalm 23,

430
00:29:56,753 --> 00:30:00,173
"Even though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death,

431
00:30:00,256 --> 00:30:01,674
I fear no evil,

432
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:03,593
for you are with me."

433
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:17,398
It just kind of broke
my heart, seeing the posters and the signs

434
00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:20,068
for people looking
for their family members.

435
00:30:21,277 --> 00:30:23,071
The towers were still smoldering,

436
00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:25,573
the rubble was
still smoldering at that time.

437
00:30:26,533 --> 00:30:29,702
You know, I don't think
that I had ever felt such a calling.

438
00:30:29,786 --> 00:30:31,454
Like what my life was for

439
00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:34,374
is like, you know,
we needed to help be part of the solution

440
00:30:34,457 --> 00:30:38,002
and we needed to help to find
the individuals who had done this.

441
00:30:45,051 --> 00:30:48,638
Within days,
I think three days after 9/11,

442
00:30:48,721 --> 00:30:53,268
there was just a lot of panic
and uncertainty and ignorance and fear.

443
00:30:54,644 --> 00:30:58,398
Immediately, the people in the White House
and in the Justice Department realized

444
00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:02,193
that they needed
robust authorities to respond to it.

445
00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:04,612
The one big sticking point tonight

446
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:08,199
is how much power to give the president
to conduct this war

447
00:31:08,283 --> 00:31:11,494
and to respond
to any future acts of terrorism.

448
00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:15,081
And they sought a super broad
authorization to use military force,

449
00:31:15,164 --> 00:31:16,624
as it's called, an AUMF,

450
00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:22,463
from Congress for a very open-ended
authorization to go after all terrorists,

451
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:26,467
essentially, all terrorist threats
and to deter all terrorist threats.

452
00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:28,720
This draft resolution from the White House

453
00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:30,805
authorizes use of armed forces

454
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:32,432
against all those who planned,

455
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,935
authorized, harbored, committed,
or aided in the attacks

456
00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:39,689
and to deter and pre-empt
any future acts of terrorism.

457
00:31:39,772 --> 00:31:42,483
Yeas are 420, the nays are one.

458
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:45,278
This resolution,
joint resolution, is passed.

459
00:31:49,365 --> 00:31:52,285
The Constitution
was written to really constrain

460
00:31:52,368 --> 00:31:55,121
the president's authority
to use military force.

461
00:31:55,997 --> 00:31:57,707
The idea was
we didn't want to have a king.

462
00:31:57,790 --> 00:32:00,168
We didn't want to have
one person who could

463
00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:01,878
just launch the country into war.

464
00:32:01,961 --> 00:32:05,798
And so the Constitution very carefully
separates out the powers.

465
00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:08,509
It's Congress that gets to declare war.

466
00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:11,804
The 2001 authorization
for use of military force

467
00:32:11,888 --> 00:32:16,935
was enacted not with a lot of time
for deliberation and careful reflection.

468
00:32:18,353 --> 00:32:21,064
Would you be willing
to give up some of your liberties

469
00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:23,149
in this country
in order for the government

470
00:32:23,232 --> 00:32:24,734
to crack down on terrorism?

471
00:32:24,817 --> 00:32:27,236
66% said yes.

472
00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,202
The AUMF, this 2001 statute

473
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,371
passed a few days after 9/11,

474
00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:41,417
turned out to be the foundation stone
on the next 25 years of war.

475
00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:46,297
The basis for using force abroad
all over the world,

476
00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,342
the basis for the Guantanamo detentions,

477
00:32:49,425 --> 00:32:52,804
and the basis in some sense
for the black sites abroad.

478
00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:57,475
It was really the legal foundation
for everything that would come.

479
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,359
We hold
the American government responsible

480
00:33:06,442 --> 00:33:09,612
for its transgressions
on Muslims as a whole,

481
00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:13,157
and for its support of
the regimes in our countries

482
00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:16,619
against the interests
and well-being of the people.

483
00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:22,458
The 9/11 attacks
had been orchestrated by Al-Qaeda

484
00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:26,254
and led by Osama bin Laden,
and he was in Afghanistan.

485
00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:37,223
He was there as a guest
of the Taliban-controlled government.

486
00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:46,065
The US went to the government
of Afghanistan, the Taliban,

487
00:33:46,149 --> 00:33:49,610
and said, "Give him up, or push him out."

488
00:33:50,153 --> 00:33:53,865
Under mounting
pressure, Afghanistan's Taliban regime

489
00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:57,493
today replied to charges that
the attacks on New York and Washington

490
00:33:57,577 --> 00:33:59,787
were coordinated from its territory.

491
00:34:00,288 --> 00:34:01,414
And they refused.

492
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:04,667
And that meant
that the United States said,

493
00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:06,794
"All right, well,
we're gonna come in after him."

494
00:34:18,473 --> 00:34:22,101
We got the call to go forward
and deploy in Afghanistan with my unit.

495
00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:25,354
And being in a unit
that was at the tip of the spear,

496
00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:29,192
that was our job,
to go forth and to accomplish that task.

497
00:34:38,951 --> 00:34:42,455
We felt overwhelming support
for our mission during that time.

498
00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:49,170
There was a sense of excitement about it,

499
00:34:50,004 --> 00:34:53,549
a sense of like, fulfilling,
like, what your profession is.

500
00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:57,553
"This is what I'm here for.
This is what we were trained for."

501
00:34:57,637 --> 00:34:59,680
And kind of an aspect of pride

502
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:02,809
to be in a unit that, you know,
was trained for moments like that.

503
00:35:05,561 --> 00:35:07,730
One by one, the Afghan cities

504
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:10,691
started to fall
to the US-led opposition forces.

505
00:35:25,581 --> 00:35:28,251
I was living
in Afghanistan, in Kunar Province.

506
00:35:31,879 --> 00:35:34,632
In Afghanistan,
it was a complete dictatorship.

507
00:35:35,299 --> 00:35:38,928
There was just set-up rules
by the Taliban for the people.

508
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:43,641
I was like, uh, 10 or 11 years old.

509
00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:46,644
My father was listening
to the radio and the news.

510
00:35:47,311 --> 00:35:49,939
That's how we found out about the 9/11.

511
00:35:50,022 --> 00:35:51,858
-…explosion…
-Oh my God,

512
00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:54,360
another plane just hit
the World Trade Center.

513
00:35:54,443 --> 00:35:57,071
Another plane.
It was a medium-sized plane.

514
00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,199
Unbelievable. It looked like… Oh my…

515
00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:04,287
In the time of Taliban,
we were not aware of the war,

516
00:36:04,370 --> 00:36:05,663
what's going on outside.

517
00:36:05,746 --> 00:36:08,249
Like, it was just somewhere
something happened.

518
00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:14,297
But after American arrival in Afghanistan,
then we realized, like,

519
00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:15,965
that something bad happened.

520
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:24,473
When the US invaded in 2001,

521
00:36:24,557 --> 00:36:29,604
the Taliban were viewed by most Afghans
as an extraordinarily repressive regime.

522
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:36,485
And people viewed
the Americans as liberators.

523
00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:39,405
And there was a lot of hope,
there was a groundswell of hope

524
00:36:39,488 --> 00:36:42,783
that the US would come
and bring development and peace.

525
00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:48,748
By December 2001,
the Taliban had collapsed.

526
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:51,876
One day is Taliban rule.

527
00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:56,088
Another day, there is no rules of Taliban.
Like, everything is brightened up.

528
00:36:56,672 --> 00:36:59,675
Everybody is, like,
"We are liberated right now

529
00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:02,053
and we can live our life as we want."

530
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:08,434
Sources tell ABC News there is
evidence Osama bin Laden is still alive,

531
00:37:08,517 --> 00:37:11,938
still on the run, and still in control.

532
00:37:12,021 --> 00:37:15,274
That is why we are there.
That is why we are chasing them.

533
00:37:15,358 --> 00:37:16,943
That is why we are bombing.

534
00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:21,072
That is why we are working
with Afghan forces.

535
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:28,037
It was my dream from childhood
to become a pilot.

536
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,874
And I follow up with my dream
and I became a pilot.

537
00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:37,004
I came to the United States
to become a fighter pilot.

538
00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:41,342
And I moved back to my country

539
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:44,136
and served in the military
against the Taliban.

540
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:56,023
Our main goal is to keep our people safe
from the Taliban and the Taliban rules.

541
00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:04,740
Because I have seen them before…

542
00:38:06,575 --> 00:38:09,870
…and I didn't want them
to come back in the power.

543
00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:19,171
Americans… Like, we were counterparts.

544
00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:21,549
We were, like, allies.

545
00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:36,063
In 1978, I was about seven years old.

546
00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:39,984
I came here, and the first thing
I ate was pizza.

547
00:38:40,067 --> 00:38:41,694
I was like, "Oh my God."

548
00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:45,823
The place I grew up
is known as Little Pakistan.

549
00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:48,242
It's right in Brooklyn, New York.

550
00:38:48,826 --> 00:38:51,120
My dad opened up the first store,

551
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:55,207
and then there was a mosque,
and then things started to grow.

552
00:38:56,792 --> 00:39:00,129
You know, immigrants, what do they do?
They work, they work, they work.

553
00:39:03,716 --> 00:39:06,469
And I had a grocery store
across the street, a 99-cent store.

554
00:39:06,552 --> 00:39:08,137
I also had a restaurant.

555
00:39:09,388 --> 00:39:12,308
I was living the American dream.

556
00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:20,691
Everybody, we all were immigrants
but we are, like, Americans.

557
00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:25,738
I never felt my identity

558
00:39:26,405 --> 00:39:28,574
was negative.

559
00:39:33,954 --> 00:39:36,582
The whole second tower collapsed.

560
00:39:36,665 --> 00:39:38,250
The whole building is gone.

561
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:39,502
The whole building.

562
00:39:40,628 --> 00:39:42,296
And the attacks happened.

563
00:39:43,714 --> 00:39:47,176
No, I was just in tears.
I just couldn't believe it at that time.

564
00:39:52,264 --> 00:39:55,893
And these people, what they've just did,
it's just unbelievable.

565
00:39:56,477 --> 00:39:58,729
Oh, those poor people. Oh God.

566
00:39:59,438 --> 00:40:02,483
After the buildings fell,
the ashes floated

567
00:40:02,566 --> 00:40:04,819
towards right in front of my doorstep.

568
00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:09,240
When the ashes came,
that was the devastating part…

569
00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:14,120
because that was a moment like,
"Oh my God."

570
00:40:16,747 --> 00:40:19,458
I was working
actually in this fabric store,

571
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,627
and my Italian paisans
who were next to me,

572
00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:23,379
they're like,
"How could you people do this?"

573
00:40:23,462 --> 00:40:25,423
And I'm like, "These are not my people."

574
00:40:26,465 --> 00:40:28,968
We have three daughters and two boys.

575
00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:31,011
At that time it was just two and two.

576
00:40:31,512 --> 00:40:33,139
I went home and just sat.

577
00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:35,683
I just told them,
we have nothing to do with this.

578
00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:39,478
And when the country's going to war
with this particular group,

579
00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:41,856
what do you think
the local people are going to do?

580
00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:43,190
They're going to go to war on us.

581
00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:45,192
I hope they send all of you back.

582
00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:48,070
I hope they kill your people,
innocent people also.

583
00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:50,406
Go back to your country.
We don't want you here.

584
00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:53,534
-There's another one.
-To delete, press one.

585
00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:55,911
Hello, Muslims.

586
00:40:56,704 --> 00:41:00,040
Why'd you kill at least 5,000 people
at the World Trade Center today?

587
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:02,585
You just woke up
a sleeping giant with the Americans.

588
00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:04,336
We're gonna kick your ****ing ass now.

589
00:41:07,089 --> 00:41:09,008
We are also Americans

590
00:41:09,091 --> 00:41:12,511
and we are just as much involved
in this tragedy as everybody else.

591
00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:15,347
I'm saying the man
that was the leader of your people

592
00:41:15,431 --> 00:41:17,558
is the man that makes
all the threats against America.

593
00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:22,021
It's very important for us
to not point fingers at a religion.

594
00:41:22,104 --> 00:41:25,357
There are 1.6 billion Muslims
on the face of the earth.

595
00:41:25,441 --> 00:41:29,695
We are being blamed for something that
we have no control or nothing to do with.

596
00:41:29,778 --> 00:41:32,698
Muslims are not terrorists.

597
00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:35,117
Muslims are not terrorists.

598
00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:37,620
All of a sudden, I'm a foreigner.

599
00:41:39,246 --> 00:41:40,331
I'd never felt that.

600
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,210
He's felt under constant surveillance

601
00:41:44,293 --> 00:41:46,670
and is convinced
he's been closely monitored.

602
00:41:46,754 --> 00:41:49,089
Maybe a week after 9/11,

603
00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:51,425
I get a knock on the door, FBI.

604
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,844
"Do you have gatherings
in your basement?" I said yes.

605
00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:56,639
"I have a large family.
We go downstairs and we pray."

606
00:41:56,722 --> 00:41:59,642
Asked further questions.
He goes, "Where do you work?"

607
00:41:59,725 --> 00:42:03,103
I said, "I run the grocery store
and the 99-cent store."

608
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,232
"All right, so maybe we'll stop by
and just see you later then."

609
00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:08,651
If it can happen to me,

610
00:42:09,443 --> 00:42:13,364
could you just imagine if it's happening
to a person who barely speaks English

611
00:42:13,447 --> 00:42:16,534
or who is here
and does not understand the system?

612
00:42:17,117 --> 00:42:18,369
He's going to be terrified.

613
00:42:20,329 --> 00:42:22,748
My oldest daughter,
she was pushed down the steps,

614
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:26,210
her scarf was pulled off,
and she was cursed at.

615
00:42:26,877 --> 00:42:28,128
I was like, "My God, why'd you…"

616
00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:30,589
She goes, "Dad,
that's exactly why I didn't tell you."

617
00:42:31,215 --> 00:42:33,676
"Because I know you would have
done a huge thing."

618
00:42:33,759 --> 00:42:36,428
It just broke my heart
that she didn't tell me.

619
00:42:36,512 --> 00:42:38,222
But I understood why she didn't tell me

620
00:42:38,305 --> 00:42:41,100
because then she would become
center of attention.

621
00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:54,280
The Homeland Security Act of 2002
takes the next critical steps

622
00:42:54,363 --> 00:42:56,240
in defending our country.

623
00:42:57,866 --> 00:43:00,202
There was never something
called Homeland Security

624
00:43:00,286 --> 00:43:02,413
in the United States before 9/11.

625
00:43:02,496 --> 00:43:04,623
…most dynamic
federal government organization.

626
00:43:04,707 --> 00:43:06,041
It sounds off.

627
00:43:06,625 --> 00:43:11,797
It sounds like something that's
a relic of European nationalisms,

628
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,677
as opposed to what had been
a conception of the American way of life,

629
00:43:17,803 --> 00:43:20,097
which is that you can come from anywhere,

630
00:43:20,180 --> 00:43:23,309
and provided that you believe
in these sorts of things

631
00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:27,146
and are willing to work
to live in harmony with one another,

632
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:29,440
great, we've got another American here.

633
00:43:30,858 --> 00:43:32,818
The Department of Homeland Security

634
00:43:32,901 --> 00:43:35,863
was a harbinger
of how all of that was about to change.

635
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:42,369
Very quickly, it seemed
the focus of the War on Terror

636
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:45,039
was something much larger,

637
00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:47,833
much more difficult to define.

638
00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:52,880
Now, all of a sudden, the elements of

639
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:55,883
American immigration policy

640
00:43:55,966 --> 00:43:59,053
had a counterterrorism mandate
behind them.

641
00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:03,724
That was the beginnings
of the agencies that would become ICE.

642
00:44:04,350 --> 00:44:05,643
Fuck ICE!

643
00:44:05,726 --> 00:44:10,731
The Department of Homeland
Security established conceptually, firmly,

644
00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:13,984
that the War on Terror
was not just happening overseas,

645
00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:15,277
it was happening at home.

646
00:44:23,452 --> 00:44:24,578
You look so happy.

647
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,705
-I like that one.
-That's a great one.

648
00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:28,415
I have a copy of that in my wallet.

649
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:36,465
My dad became a pilot at 16 years old.

650
00:44:38,342 --> 00:44:44,098
He got his license and then
he went on to the Air Force Academy.

651
00:44:45,474 --> 00:44:49,144
I've kind of stopped myself
from learning a lot of things about him.

652
00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:54,149
It's still really difficult
for me to know anything

653
00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:55,984
because the more that I do know,

654
00:44:56,068 --> 00:44:59,905
the more that I think about
what I didn't have

655
00:44:59,988 --> 00:45:02,199
and the life I missed out on.

656
00:45:04,201 --> 00:45:05,661
You do look like him.

657
00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:07,788
I know.

658
00:45:10,416 --> 00:45:12,251
I'm not good at looking through photos.

659
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,837
I know, it's very emotional.

660
00:45:15,421 --> 00:45:16,964
-Yeah.
-It's okay.

661
00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:24,304
My generation learned about 9/11
through social media,

662
00:45:24,388 --> 00:45:27,975
so Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

663
00:45:29,101 --> 00:45:32,855
I'm, in a way, like,
some sort of slightly public figure

664
00:45:32,938 --> 00:45:35,149
because you can look me up.

665
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:40,320
There have been multiple times
where I've been messaged, DM'd about him.

666
00:45:41,238 --> 00:45:44,241
If they're just trying
to get a rise out of me, I don't know.

667
00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:49,913
People will make jokes
about Bush doing 9/11,

668
00:45:49,997 --> 00:45:52,624
jokes about Osama bin Laden,

669
00:45:52,708 --> 00:45:56,378
and it's just become such a meme.

670
00:45:57,296 --> 00:46:00,174
And there's so many conspiracies.

671
00:46:00,257 --> 00:46:03,093
I've seen so many YouTube channels

672
00:46:03,177 --> 00:46:06,138
posting whole videos about conspiracies.

673
00:46:06,221 --> 00:46:09,224
Do you think it was possible
that 9/11 was an inside job?

674
00:46:09,308 --> 00:46:13,812
Well, I think it's not only possible, but
confirmed that they lied to us about it.

675
00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:16,398
Comments that this is all a hoax

676
00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:18,484
or an inside job.

677
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:20,986
Comments are very insensitive.

678
00:46:24,364 --> 00:46:28,368
And I've had people comment
just, like, disgusting things.

679
00:46:30,454 --> 00:46:32,915
It just made me realize
how vulnerable I felt

680
00:46:32,998 --> 00:46:36,877
because there's so much
information about this event,

681
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,130
which is something that somebody
could attack me about, basically.

682
00:46:43,509 --> 00:46:45,969
It is kind of just
a historical moment now.

683
00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:51,725
We have a whole new generation
of people who weren't even, like, alive,

684
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:53,852
or they were young when this happened.

685
00:46:54,561 --> 00:46:56,104
But it's inescapable.

686
00:47:03,111 --> 00:47:06,949
In recent years, I've really been
reflecting on my childhood

687
00:47:07,032 --> 00:47:10,619
and what should have been, kind of.

688
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,499
I've been trying to find a word for it,

689
00:47:15,582 --> 00:47:19,962
feeling like you were
supposed to have this life

690
00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:25,092
and then, like,
something destroys that entire future.

691
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:34,768
The shifting technological landscape

692
00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:38,063
of, you know, the web and social media

693
00:47:38,146 --> 00:47:44,278
supercharges the pre-existing
conspiratorial nature

694
00:47:44,361 --> 00:47:48,907
that has long existed
in corners of the United States.

695
00:47:50,576 --> 00:47:56,081
You see 9/11 really collide with

696
00:47:56,164 --> 00:48:00,961
the turbocharging
of conspiracies in America

697
00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:05,966
to launch this entire, you know,
incredibly dark movement

698
00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:08,510
that we now call 9/11 Truthers.

699
00:48:09,177 --> 00:48:10,679
Hello, I'm Alex Jones.

700
00:48:10,762 --> 00:48:15,934
And this poison spreads out across

701
00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:19,855
all of the sort of far right and far left

702
00:48:19,938 --> 00:48:23,358
conspiratorial circles in America

703
00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:26,653
and infects our politics.

704
00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:30,949
It affects our national culture
and debate.

705
00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:35,829
And what companies realize very quickly is

706
00:48:36,413 --> 00:48:43,003
that the thing that drives engagement
is content that enrages.

707
00:48:43,086 --> 00:48:48,050
We know that open air fires
cannot burn hot enough to melt steel,

708
00:48:48,133 --> 00:48:51,011
but metal had melted
at the base of the towers.

709
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:54,431
And so you see these conspiracies spread,

710
00:48:54,514 --> 00:48:57,267
you see political polarization spread.

711
00:48:57,351 --> 00:49:02,022
We are facing the rise of
Islamo-Nazism rising all around the world.

712
00:49:03,815 --> 00:49:06,026
Other countries figure this out,
like Russia,

713
00:49:06,109 --> 00:49:08,779
begin to sort of use
some of these tools against us

714
00:49:08,862 --> 00:49:13,450
to spread disinformation
and polarizing content online.

715
00:49:14,993 --> 00:49:20,248
There is a very clear through line

716
00:49:20,749 --> 00:49:24,836
that takes us from
the darkest corners of 9/11

717
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,881
to the darkest corners
of our politics today.

718
00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:30,801
I guess that went off automatically.

719
00:49:30,884 --> 00:49:33,095
They've evacuated everyone in the hotel.

720
00:49:33,178 --> 00:49:34,680
They've evacuated all employees.

721
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:36,765
-They evacuated the hotel?
-Yes.

722
00:49:36,848 --> 00:49:37,933
-Immediately?
-Yes.

723
00:49:38,016 --> 00:49:39,559
Are you hearing anything, Wendell,

724
00:49:39,643 --> 00:49:41,937
-about what kind of a plane it was?
-No.

725
00:49:42,020 --> 00:49:44,106
-Or how many were on board?
-No.

726
00:49:44,189 --> 00:49:46,441
All right. Mr. Clyne,
thank you very much, sir.

727
00:49:46,525 --> 00:49:47,567
I understand Teresa…

728
00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:49,486
Immediately during the attack,

729
00:49:49,569 --> 00:49:52,239
I remember the types of rumors
that we were hearing,

730
00:49:52,322 --> 00:49:54,950
there was just
extraordinary levels of confusion.

731
00:49:56,576 --> 00:49:57,828
We ended up,

732
00:49:57,911 --> 00:50:00,539
meaning undergrads at NYU
who were living near the towers,

733
00:50:00,622 --> 00:50:02,833
ended up being put into a hotel.

734
00:50:02,916 --> 00:50:05,002
And I lived in a hotel
for a couple of months.

735
00:50:05,794 --> 00:50:08,088
At that time, I was studying physics,

736
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:13,510
but I began to pay attention to
the rest of the world for the first time.

737
00:50:13,593 --> 00:50:15,470
I was young. I was 20.

738
00:50:15,971 --> 00:50:19,391
And I began to follow the War on Terror.

739
00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:24,271
The reason I went
to Afghanistan is because

740
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:25,772
I'd been following all the news

741
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:29,026
and felt really dissatisfied with the way
the news was being portrayed,

742
00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:31,737
because I didn't really understand
what was happening.

743
00:50:31,820 --> 00:50:34,823
When I got there,
pretty quickly I began to report,

744
00:50:34,906 --> 00:50:37,617
and I began to see
a different side of the conflict…

745
00:50:40,328 --> 00:50:41,329
in Afghanistan.

746
00:50:41,413 --> 00:50:42,914
You had this weird situation

747
00:50:42,998 --> 00:50:46,168
where you had thousands
of American troops on Afghan soil,

748
00:50:46,251 --> 00:50:47,878
and there was no enemy to fight.

749
00:50:47,961 --> 00:50:52,507
So the way this contradiction was resolved
is that the US began to ally

750
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:54,384
with warlords around the country.

751
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,096
And they said,
"We're here to fight a War on Terror."

752
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:01,683
"We're here to fight bad guys,
and you need to produce us bad guys."

753
00:51:01,767 --> 00:51:03,852
"Give us intelligence.
Where are the bad guys?"

754
00:51:03,935 --> 00:51:06,104
Talib! Talib!

755
00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:08,857
They paid these warlords to do so.

756
00:51:08,940 --> 00:51:11,902
So these warlords are now incentivized
to produce intelligence.

757
00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,863
So, for example, you have a plot of land,

758
00:51:14,946 --> 00:51:16,406
and I want that land,

759
00:51:16,490 --> 00:51:19,326
I'm going to go tell the Americans
you're a member of Al-Qaeda.

760
00:51:21,244 --> 00:51:23,080
The US troops would
take this intelligence,

761
00:51:23,163 --> 00:51:25,373
they would raid the household,
take the people away.

762
00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:28,627
No, I'm not
a member of Al-Qaeda. I'm a student.

763
00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:30,670
This happened again and again and again.

764
00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,590
And the consequence of this was that

765
00:51:33,673 --> 00:51:38,053
whereas there had been only
a groundswell of support for the US,

766
00:51:38,136 --> 00:51:41,723
gradually villagers started
to turn against the Americans,

767
00:51:42,516 --> 00:51:46,436
and no longer saw them as liberators,
but began to see them as occupiers.

768
00:51:47,229 --> 00:51:48,480
Woohoo!

769
00:51:48,563 --> 00:51:51,691
This laid the seeds
for the reconstitution of the Taliban.

770
00:51:54,820 --> 00:51:59,199
9/11 and the War on Terror
set in motion a process

771
00:51:59,282 --> 00:52:02,119
where trust and faith
in government leaders

772
00:52:02,202 --> 00:52:04,955
was systematically undermined.

773
00:52:05,038 --> 00:52:08,375
We were told that we had to invade Iraq,
for example,

774
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:12,462
because Saddam Hussein possessed
weapons of mass destruction.

775
00:52:12,963 --> 00:52:15,465
We owe it to our children,
our children's children,

776
00:52:15,549 --> 00:52:19,511
to free the world from
weapons of mass destruction.

777
00:52:19,594 --> 00:52:20,887
Weapons of mass destruction.

778
00:52:20,971 --> 00:52:22,514
Weapons of mass destruction?

779
00:52:23,098 --> 00:52:24,766
It turned out not to be true.

780
00:52:26,226 --> 00:52:29,437
And that set in motion
a crisis of confidence

781
00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:35,235
and a divisiveness that has never really
been healed, much less repaired.

782
00:52:36,695 --> 00:52:40,115
We stand for liberation and democracy,
gentlemen!

783
00:52:41,116 --> 00:52:44,995
The killing of Osama bin Laden
really, to many people,

784
00:52:45,078 --> 00:52:47,998
signified an end to the War on Terror.

785
00:52:48,081 --> 00:52:50,083
It was over. It was just mopping up.

786
00:52:52,878 --> 00:52:54,129
USA!

787
00:52:54,212 --> 00:52:57,883
But meanwhile, in Iraq,
a new terrorist group is arising.

788
00:52:59,676 --> 00:53:02,512
In the chaos of the US occupation of Iraq,

789
00:53:02,596 --> 00:53:06,766
all sorts of groups start to pop up
to resist the occupiers.

790
00:53:09,561 --> 00:53:12,314
One of those groups is Al-Qaeda.

791
00:53:12,397 --> 00:53:14,649
Eventually,
through the course of that war,

792
00:53:14,733 --> 00:53:17,986
Al-Qaeda radicalizes,
and a section splits off

793
00:53:18,069 --> 00:53:20,113
and becomes what we know as ISIS.

794
00:53:21,948 --> 00:53:26,411
ISIS becomes one of the most formidable
terrorist organizations in history.

795
00:53:39,883 --> 00:53:43,345
On 9/11, I was in English class,

796
00:53:43,428 --> 00:53:49,184
and somebody came into our classroom
and said, "Turn on the TV."

797
00:53:49,267 --> 00:53:50,435
And we did.

798
00:53:51,478 --> 00:53:56,149
And not long after that, the principal
called me and my sister and said,

799
00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:57,651
"You guys can go home."

800
00:53:58,443 --> 00:54:00,612
I think we were
the only Muslims at school,

801
00:54:00,695 --> 00:54:06,826
and they, out of a desire
to be proactive about taking care of us,

802
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:09,287
let our parents come pick us up.

803
00:54:10,163 --> 00:54:12,207
And as I came of age,

804
00:54:12,290 --> 00:54:16,753
the United States started wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq.

805
00:54:17,462 --> 00:54:21,132
And you saw the real spread
of the cycle of violence.

806
00:54:25,762 --> 00:54:27,597
Happy you're here. Thank you.

807
00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:32,644
Obama began to rely much more
heavily on targeted assassinations,

808
00:54:32,727 --> 00:54:35,814
using unmanned aircraft, drones,

809
00:54:35,897 --> 00:54:39,651
Predator and Reaper drones
that fired a Hellfire missile.

810
00:54:41,236 --> 00:54:45,198
And would target
not just identified terrorist leaders,

811
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:49,369
but also undertake
what were called signature strikes.

812
00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:52,956
In other words, even if there wasn't

813
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:56,293
actual intelligence identifying
the specific individuals,

814
00:54:56,376 --> 00:54:58,336
we would still launch the attack.

815
00:54:58,420 --> 00:55:02,090
And of course, inevitably,
tragedy ensued in the sense that

816
00:55:02,173 --> 00:55:05,427
in some attacks,
innocent civilians were mistakenly killed.

817
00:55:08,054 --> 00:55:09,973
When you watch these from afar,

818
00:55:10,056 --> 00:55:12,475
it's almost like
drone strikes on anything.

819
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:14,436
They look like a computer game,

820
00:55:15,061 --> 00:55:16,229
and it's an explosion.

821
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:17,772
On the ground, it's very different.

822
00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:24,321
It's a gruesome activity.
People are blown up.

823
00:55:25,030 --> 00:55:26,614
People are burned badly.

824
00:55:29,826 --> 00:55:32,662
The Obama administration decided that

825
00:55:32,746 --> 00:55:35,665
they could use
military force against ISIS,

826
00:55:36,249 --> 00:55:38,168
even though it didn't exist on 9/11,

827
00:55:38,251 --> 00:55:43,048
using authority granted in the 2001
Authorization for Use of Military Force.

828
00:55:45,675 --> 00:55:49,637
It set the stage
for the continued use of military force

829
00:55:49,721 --> 00:55:52,766
under that authority for another decade.

830
00:55:57,020 --> 00:55:59,189
I took my first flight
when I was 14 years old.

831
00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:04,027
And I had my private pilot's license
when I was 16.

832
00:56:04,652 --> 00:56:06,905
And I always wanted to be a fighter pilot.

833
00:56:07,947 --> 00:56:12,702
When I was a kid, I burned through
two VHS copies of Top Gun.

834
00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:15,789
After 9/11,
I went to the Marine Corps recruiter,

835
00:56:15,872 --> 00:56:17,665
and he said,
"How many pull-ups can you do?"

836
00:56:21,044 --> 00:56:24,297
The mission we were supporting
was Operation Inherent Resolve.

837
00:56:25,006 --> 00:56:27,717
It encompassed Iraq and Syria.

838
00:56:31,137 --> 00:56:34,474
Our job was to provide air support

839
00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:37,936
either through reconnaissance
or direct action,

840
00:56:38,019 --> 00:56:39,938
dropping bombs, strikes, things like that,

841
00:56:40,688 --> 00:56:41,856
against ISIS.

842
00:56:44,234 --> 00:56:48,613
I would like my identity
to remain anonymous just because

843
00:56:49,197 --> 00:56:52,784
I'm sure that there's people out there
that would want to seek retribution.

844
00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:55,328
I wish we didn't have to do it.

845
00:56:56,413 --> 00:56:57,622
I loved my job.

846
00:56:58,415 --> 00:56:59,958
I loved killing ISIS.

847
00:57:01,334 --> 00:57:05,296
But it's not lost on me
of the gravity of what we were doing.

848
00:57:06,339 --> 00:57:09,259
I'd rather be back in San Diego

849
00:57:09,342 --> 00:57:11,344
eating fish tacos on the beach.

850
00:57:11,428 --> 00:57:14,055
But this is what I signed up for.
This is what they're paying me to do.

851
00:57:14,139 --> 00:57:16,015
This is what they're trusting me to do.

852
00:57:16,099 --> 00:57:17,934
So I'm going to do it.

853
00:57:28,653 --> 00:57:33,741
I remember so well these
really impossible statistics coming out.

854
00:57:33,825 --> 00:57:38,621
The United States saying that they'd
killed as many as 25,000 ISIS fighters.

855
00:57:38,705 --> 00:57:44,002
And at the same time,
only admitting 21 or 24 civilian deaths.

856
00:57:44,502 --> 00:57:45,879
That's just not possible.

857
00:57:49,132 --> 00:57:54,637
I began trying to get on the ground and
investigate civilian casualties myself.

858
00:57:56,973 --> 00:57:58,892
You know, if you take
the government's data

859
00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:02,937
about what percentage that they admitted
civilian deaths were occurring,

860
00:58:03,021 --> 00:58:05,106
it would be less than
1% of all these strikes

861
00:58:05,190 --> 00:58:06,983
were resulting in a civilian death.

862
00:58:08,401 --> 00:58:12,864
But I spent a lot of time
going on the ground,

863
00:58:12,947 --> 00:58:14,866
going to a sample of these airstrikes,

864
00:58:14,949 --> 00:58:17,243
and what I found was that

865
00:58:17,327 --> 00:58:21,289
one in five strikes
was resulting in a civilian death.

866
00:58:21,372 --> 00:58:25,502
That's not two times higher, three times
higher than what the government thought.

867
00:58:25,585 --> 00:58:27,712
That was 31 times higher.

868
00:58:31,591 --> 00:58:33,843
And people were so inviting.

869
00:58:34,636 --> 00:58:35,887
They were so welcoming.

870
00:58:35,970 --> 00:58:39,307
I can't remember anyone
who said no to talking to me.

871
00:58:40,391 --> 00:58:43,228
For so many of these civilians,
there had been a belief

872
00:58:43,311 --> 00:58:46,940
that the Americans can be precise.
They can be surgical.

873
00:58:47,023 --> 00:58:49,442
I remember one man pointing at a teacup,

874
00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:51,236
holding his teacup, and saying,

875
00:58:51,319 --> 00:58:53,905
"The Americans could just hit
this teacup if they wanted."

876
00:58:53,988 --> 00:58:55,156
That was his belief.

877
00:58:56,199 --> 00:58:57,951
"And look at what they did to my family."

878
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:02,247
Over and over,

879
00:59:02,747 --> 00:59:05,458
I heard from parents
who would tell me about

880
00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:07,126
the way their daughter laughed,

881
00:59:07,919 --> 00:59:12,298
or would show me a photo
of her holding, like, a firework,

882
00:59:12,382 --> 00:59:13,883
the night before she was killed.

883
00:59:13,967 --> 00:59:16,010
Like her vibrancy, her youth,

884
00:59:16,511 --> 00:59:19,305
that particular loss
of outliving your child.

885
00:59:20,515 --> 00:59:22,141
That always stays with me.

886
00:59:23,476 --> 00:59:25,103
Like I don't know how…

887
00:59:27,355 --> 00:59:29,107
people move on after that.

888
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,364
By the time Obama left office,

889
00:59:36,447 --> 00:59:40,451
the United States was
fighting terrorism in some form

890
00:59:40,535 --> 00:59:42,870
in approximately 13 countries.

891
00:59:44,205 --> 00:59:48,209
The phrase "endless war"
and "forever war,"

892
00:59:48,293 --> 00:59:50,920
become more widely used.

893
00:59:54,632 --> 00:59:57,635
Obama, even as he is the drone president,

894
00:59:57,719 --> 01:00:00,388
conducting these drone strikes
on a routine basis

895
01:00:00,471 --> 01:00:02,348
over more and more of the Earth,

896
01:00:02,890 --> 01:00:04,350
is saying out loud, you know,

897
01:00:04,434 --> 01:00:09,314
how do we know if we're not creating
more terrorists than we're killing?

898
01:00:12,734 --> 01:00:14,819
We have a problem in this country.

899
01:00:14,902 --> 01:00:15,903
It's called Muslims.

900
01:00:16,487 --> 01:00:18,906
We know our current president is one.

901
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:21,117
-Right.
-You know he's not even an American.

902
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,494
-We need this question.
-Birth certificate, man.

903
01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:29,542
But anyway, we have training camps
growing where they want to kill us.

904
01:00:30,376 --> 01:00:32,420
That's my question.
When can we get rid of 'em?

905
01:00:32,503 --> 01:00:34,422
We're gonna be looking at a lot of things.

906
01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:36,507
And you know,
a lot of people are saying that

907
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:39,344
and a lot of people are saying
that bad things are happening out there.

908
01:00:39,427 --> 01:00:41,471
Donald Trump is not a subtle man

909
01:00:41,554 --> 01:00:44,015
but understands subtext extremely well.

910
01:00:44,098 --> 01:00:45,767
Trump! Trump!

911
01:00:45,850 --> 01:00:50,480
What he saw very early on
was that the War on Terror

912
01:00:50,563 --> 01:00:52,982
was a pathway to power

913
01:00:53,066 --> 01:00:56,152
for inflamed nativist elements

914
01:00:56,235 --> 01:00:59,989
that felt the country was further
and further slipping away from them.

915
01:01:00,573 --> 01:01:04,661
Donald J. Trump is calling for
a total and complete shutdown

916
01:01:04,744 --> 01:01:08,164
of Muslims entering
the United States. Until…

917
01:01:08,247 --> 01:01:13,169
Trump's movement recognized that there was

918
01:01:13,252 --> 01:01:16,964
still a tremendous amount
of political potency to be had

919
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:18,841
from the War on Terror.

920
01:01:18,925 --> 01:01:21,969
I think Islam… hates us.

921
01:01:22,053 --> 01:01:24,972
Build the wall! Build the wall!

922
01:01:25,056 --> 01:01:27,392
I want surveillance of certain mosques.

923
01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:33,690
The border becomes
this dominant topic of conversation

924
01:01:33,773 --> 01:01:37,276
all out of proportion
to the actual problems at the border

925
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,404
in the 2016 campaign.

926
01:01:39,487 --> 01:01:41,781
Folks, brick by brick,

927
01:01:41,864 --> 01:01:44,283
that wall is going to get built.

928
01:01:44,826 --> 01:01:49,831
We're gonna have a situation on our border
that isn't mired in violence and chaos.

929
01:01:49,914 --> 01:01:52,750
-…The left. Who is on your list?
-Will you shut up, man?

930
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:56,587
Four years later,
in the 2020 presidential campaign,

931
01:01:57,213 --> 01:01:59,716
I think arguably there was only one issue

932
01:01:59,799 --> 01:02:03,761
that President Trump and
presidential candidate Biden agreed on,

933
01:02:04,679 --> 01:02:07,140
and that was ending the endless wars.

934
01:02:07,974 --> 01:02:09,851
Afghanistan, how about that?

935
01:02:10,643 --> 01:02:13,813
Where, by the way, I started the process,
all the troops are coming back home,

936
01:02:13,896 --> 01:02:15,314
they couldn't stop the process.

937
01:02:17,066 --> 01:02:19,402
Militants captured the pilot in December

938
01:02:19,485 --> 01:02:22,029
when his F-16 crashed in Syria.

939
01:02:22,113 --> 01:02:23,197
This video may be…

940
01:02:23,281 --> 01:02:26,743
I had just turned three years old on 9/11.

941
01:02:26,826 --> 01:02:30,621
My birthday was nine days
before everything went down.

942
01:02:31,956 --> 01:02:34,667
At least for me personally,
joining the Marine Corps

943
01:02:34,751 --> 01:02:38,254
was to fight ISIS
because that is kind of what I saw.

944
01:02:38,337 --> 01:02:41,174
…by the Islamic State extremist group.

945
01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:45,595
A video posted online today shows
the captors burning the man alive, while…

946
01:02:45,678 --> 01:02:49,182
It was like, I'm pissed
and I want to go do something about it.

947
01:02:49,265 --> 01:02:51,142
It wasn't 9/11.

948
01:02:51,726 --> 01:02:55,271
I think that's a big shift
between the early GWOT war

949
01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:58,775
compared to mostly my generation.

950
01:02:59,817 --> 01:03:02,862
And I remember being like,
I want to be a part of that,

951
01:03:02,945 --> 01:03:04,155
of trying to stop that.

952
01:03:13,623 --> 01:03:19,003
I shipped to boot camp August 26 of 2017.

953
01:03:20,129 --> 01:03:22,381
And then graduated boot camp

954
01:03:22,465 --> 01:03:26,385
in October or early November.

955
01:03:26,469 --> 01:03:29,138
I had always heard that
Marines were the killers.

956
01:03:29,889 --> 01:03:33,893
I wanted to go to Afghanistan
or Iraq and kill terrorists.

957
01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:35,937
That was my dream as a kid.

958
01:03:40,608 --> 01:03:43,945
So that was the same unit
as Smoak and Wyatt.

959
01:03:47,990 --> 01:03:51,744
Wyatt, he was a very serious guy.

960
01:03:52,745 --> 01:03:54,372
He would always look annoyed.

961
01:03:57,708 --> 01:03:59,126
I remember always seeing him

962
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:01,921
and he would always
look annoyed or pissed or something.

963
01:04:02,004 --> 01:04:04,340
But he was a good guy.
I mean, I liked him a lot.

964
01:04:10,555 --> 01:04:12,265
In April 2021,

965
01:04:12,348 --> 01:04:15,852
President Biden announced that
the United States would be withdrawing

966
01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:19,689
from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.

967
01:04:19,772 --> 01:04:20,773
We went to Afghanistan

968
01:04:20,857 --> 01:04:24,819
because of a horrific attack
that happened 20 years ago.

969
01:04:25,486 --> 01:04:28,906
President essentially defending
a position he has held for a while now,

970
01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:32,410
which is that there was
no military option left in Afghanistan.

971
01:04:32,493 --> 01:04:36,831
And he said he didn't want
to send another generation, essentially,

972
01:04:36,914 --> 01:04:41,419
of young men and women to go fight
an unwinnable war, in his view.

973
01:04:43,212 --> 01:04:46,132
From the moment
US troops started pulling back,

974
01:04:46,215 --> 01:04:48,593
the Taliban went on the offensive.

975
01:04:50,052 --> 01:04:51,345
In a matter of days,

976
01:04:51,429 --> 01:04:54,348
the Taliban has
blitzed across Afghanistan,

977
01:04:54,432 --> 01:04:56,767
taken over city after city.

978
01:04:59,353 --> 01:05:04,025
We were sitting in the chow hall
eating probably lunch or dinner,

979
01:05:04,108 --> 01:05:05,985
and I was watching it on TV,

980
01:05:06,068 --> 01:05:08,779
and all the provinces were falling.

981
01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:14,368
They were changing them red on the TV
when the Taliban would take them.

982
01:05:14,452 --> 01:05:17,413
And it was all just surrounding,
headed towards Kabul.

983
01:05:17,496 --> 01:05:19,248
My thoughts were,

984
01:05:19,332 --> 01:05:22,376
what the hell
have we been doing for 20 years?

985
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,589
Why were all the lives wasted,
pretty much,

986
01:05:26,672 --> 01:05:28,382
if we're just going to turn around

987
01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:30,676
and they're just going to
take it right back over?

988
01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,353
You see all the Talibans on the road.

989
01:05:40,436 --> 01:05:41,729
This is scary.

990
01:05:42,688 --> 01:05:43,856
Think about it.

991
01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:45,566
They're in the control.

992
01:05:46,108 --> 01:05:47,902
Someone with my history,

993
01:05:47,985 --> 01:05:49,320
through all the records,

994
01:05:49,403 --> 01:05:51,614
like, the place where we have bombed,

995
01:05:51,697 --> 01:05:54,033
it's still in the computers with them.

996
01:05:54,116 --> 01:05:56,202
My biometric data is with them.

997
01:05:56,285 --> 01:05:58,287
Everybody's biometric data is with them.

998
01:05:59,246 --> 01:06:01,290
There is no government, nothing.

999
01:06:01,374 --> 01:06:04,126
It's like if you are living
in a bright place

1000
01:06:04,210 --> 01:06:06,087
and suddenly the light goes out…

1001
01:06:06,170 --> 01:06:07,129
Allahu Akbar!

1002
01:06:07,213 --> 01:06:09,632
…you're just in the middle of chaos.

1003
01:06:10,841 --> 01:06:14,053
Hamid Karzai
International Airport was just thronged

1004
01:06:14,136 --> 01:06:16,430
with Afghans desperate to flee.

1005
01:06:19,517 --> 01:06:22,770
People who had worked with
the United States military,

1006
01:06:22,853 --> 01:06:24,772
with the United States government,

1007
01:06:25,898 --> 01:06:31,737
office clerks, translators,
mechanics, cleaning personnel,

1008
01:06:31,821 --> 01:06:36,826
or who worked for any United States
organization, even for US NGOs.

1009
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:44,709
They feared that
they'd be singled out for vengeance.

1010
01:06:50,256 --> 01:06:54,218
Evacuations are proceeding
slowly with thousands of Americans still

1011
01:06:54,301 --> 01:06:56,429
wanting and waiting to get out.

1012
01:06:56,512 --> 01:06:58,639
It could be the largest evacuation

1013
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:01,851
since the fall of Saigon 46 years ago.

1014
01:07:02,643 --> 01:07:04,353
Seeing the fall of Kabul,

1015
01:07:05,187 --> 01:07:06,689
it was striking but also painful

1016
01:07:06,772 --> 01:07:07,982
from a family perspective.

1017
01:07:09,984 --> 01:07:13,696
My mom told me about when
the South Vietnamese government fell

1018
01:07:13,779 --> 01:07:15,448
to the communist north.

1019
01:07:16,365 --> 01:07:20,786
You know, the similarity is just like
the Taliban taking over the capital city.

1020
01:07:22,872 --> 01:07:25,708
And just people trying to escape

1021
01:07:25,791 --> 01:07:30,212
from what they know that would be
a catastrophic situation.

1022
01:07:30,296 --> 01:07:34,383
It has very similar emotion,
but also just the imagery itself.

1023
01:07:38,846 --> 01:07:41,098
History somehow repeats itself.

1024
01:07:44,310 --> 01:07:45,853
Sometimes there's no words.

1025
01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:50,983
Many of them,
of course, have legitimate claims

1026
01:07:51,067 --> 01:07:53,319
they are eligible for flights,

1027
01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:55,112
but the Taliban
aren't letting them through,

1028
01:07:55,196 --> 01:07:58,115
and their response on the ground
is brutal.

1029
01:08:00,034 --> 01:08:04,080
They're firing automatic weapons
over the heads of the crowd repeatedly.

1030
01:08:07,541 --> 01:08:09,251
They're using sticks to beat people.

1031
01:08:09,335 --> 01:08:11,712
They're pointing guns in people's faces.

1032
01:08:14,757 --> 01:08:17,009
That's when we started to hear rumors.

1033
01:08:18,427 --> 01:08:21,305
It's like, "Oh shit, what's happening?
What's gonna happen?"

1034
01:08:21,388 --> 01:08:24,850
And then it comes down that,
"Hey, you're going."

1035
01:08:25,518 --> 01:08:29,063
And we're like, "Oh shit, here we go.
This is what we want."

1036
01:08:29,688 --> 01:08:32,983
Just feeling like,
finally a real world mission.

1037
01:08:33,526 --> 01:08:34,902
US President Joe Biden

1038
01:08:34,985 --> 01:08:37,863
authorized the deployment
of roughly 5,000 troops

1039
01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:39,907
to support the drawdown.

1040
01:08:41,867 --> 01:08:44,120
And it's like, all right, gear check.

1041
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:46,997
Are the guys ready to go?
Who's going? Who's not going?

1042
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,252
You start loading ammo.
Everybody's loading ammo, getting ready.

1043
01:08:51,335 --> 01:08:52,795
Everyone up! Target gun!

1044
01:08:52,878 --> 01:08:54,713
Everybody's excited.

1045
01:08:54,797 --> 01:08:56,674
This was, like, the dream.

1046
01:08:57,550 --> 01:09:02,096
The dream place to go for a Marine Corps
infantryman is Afghanistan, Iraq.

1047
01:09:03,347 --> 01:09:06,475
I was kind of talking
to my guys about before we go, you know,

1048
01:09:06,559 --> 01:09:07,935
whatever God you believe in,

1049
01:09:08,018 --> 01:09:10,354
you need to get right with him
because anything can happen.

1050
01:09:11,522 --> 01:09:15,067
We got told that we were going in
for a noncombative evacuation.

1051
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:20,072
We were going to go get US citizens,
Afghans with the proper credentials.

1052
01:09:20,156 --> 01:09:21,949
We were gonna get them out of the country.

1053
01:09:24,326 --> 01:09:26,203
Operation Allies Refuge.

1054
01:09:28,831 --> 01:09:30,416
We flew out of Jordan,

1055
01:09:30,499 --> 01:09:31,375
landed in Kuwait.

1056
01:09:31,458 --> 01:09:33,836
We were in Kuwait 36 hours maybe.

1057
01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:37,173
And then we flew
from Kuwait into Afghanistan

1058
01:09:37,256 --> 01:09:39,800
and landed at night at Kabul Airport.

1059
01:09:40,342 --> 01:09:43,971
You could hear gunshots in the distance
and then you'd see tracers fly.

1060
01:09:44,972 --> 01:09:47,766
Made sure all my guys had all
their stuff on, everything was good.

1061
01:09:48,934 --> 01:09:51,020
We get told we're going to Abbey Gate.

1062
01:09:54,148 --> 01:09:56,358
I'm like, "Hell yeah, okay,
so we're going to Abbey Gate."

1063
01:09:56,442 --> 01:09:58,444
Nobody knew what Abbey Gate was.

1064
01:09:58,527 --> 01:10:00,571
I'm like, "Here we fucking go, dudes."

1065
01:10:17,755 --> 01:10:19,340
And we get there.

1066
01:10:19,423 --> 01:10:22,301
I remember looking around like,
"What the fuck is this?"

1067
01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:40,986
I remember seeing, like,
so many people in front of this gate.

1068
01:10:42,196 --> 01:10:44,490
It's just a wall of humans.

1069
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,963
We deployed these young Marines
who were trained, of course, in combat,

1070
01:10:59,046 --> 01:11:00,297
every Marine is a rifleman,

1071
01:11:00,381 --> 01:11:03,467
but they're doing things they've
never been prepared or trained for.

1072
01:11:03,550 --> 01:11:05,636
Crowd control, for example.

1073
01:11:15,604 --> 01:11:17,982
Interpreting official pieces of paper

1074
01:11:18,065 --> 01:11:20,734
that may be written in
one of the Afghan dialects,

1075
01:11:20,818 --> 01:11:22,236
not necessarily in English.

1076
01:11:24,029 --> 01:11:25,281
Hey, hey!

1077
01:11:25,364 --> 01:11:27,741
This is a highly unstable,

1078
01:11:27,825 --> 01:11:29,827
highly volatile situation.

1079
01:11:35,457 --> 01:11:38,168
This was nearly 20 years after 9/11.

1080
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,047
And what started on 9/11

1081
01:11:42,131 --> 01:11:44,383
ended right here at Abbey Gate.

1082
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,888
We were told we were to treat the Taliban
like they were our allies.

1083
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:54,893
We're there to work together
to get these people out of Afghanistan.

1084
01:11:56,729 --> 01:11:57,688
That is

1085
01:11:59,064 --> 01:12:01,483
crazy to hear.

1086
01:12:02,776 --> 01:12:05,863
Especially for, like,
our platoon sergeants

1087
01:12:05,946 --> 01:12:11,410
who had been in for almost 20 years
and had been at the height of the war

1088
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:13,203
and been there, done that.

1089
01:12:13,871 --> 01:12:18,125
The people who killed my friends
10 years ago, they're my ally now.

1090
01:12:18,792 --> 01:12:22,004
It was very, very surreal to hear that.

1091
01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:27,634
Abbey Gate was a microcosm of

1092
01:12:28,927 --> 01:12:31,096
the 20-plus year war in the Middle East.

1093
01:12:32,264 --> 01:12:34,350
Watching Afghanistan crumble,

1094
01:12:34,433 --> 01:12:38,228
I don't know how any person
can see Afghanistan, Iraq,

1095
01:12:38,312 --> 01:12:40,189
anything other than a failure.

1096
01:12:41,190 --> 01:12:46,278
A lot of these people did not have
a US passport, a green card, a visa.

1097
01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:48,572
They didn't have anything.
They just wanted to leave.

1098
01:12:48,655 --> 01:12:50,574
They were just scared.

1099
01:12:55,537 --> 01:12:59,083
There was chaos inside
and outside of the city.

1100
01:13:00,584 --> 01:13:04,254
And going into the airport,
the gates are closed,

1101
01:13:04,338 --> 01:13:08,092
and they're not letting people
go inside because there were,

1102
01:13:08,175 --> 01:13:10,094
like, thousands of people.

1103
01:13:11,303 --> 01:13:12,930
I was holding the kids.

1104
01:13:13,722 --> 01:13:18,018
My daughter was three months old,
and my son was two and a half.

1105
01:13:20,145 --> 01:13:23,273
We didn't have anywhere to
send them back out if they were rejected.

1106
01:13:24,316 --> 01:13:28,195
So we made a hole in a chain-link fence,
and we called it the Freedom Gate.

1107
01:13:28,278 --> 01:13:32,866
And if you couldn't make it,
I'm sorry, but through there you go.

1108
01:13:38,205 --> 01:13:40,958
The Taliban would be
on the other side of this,

1109
01:13:41,041 --> 01:13:44,253
and if they did not get through,
they would beat 'em,

1110
01:13:45,003 --> 01:13:48,465
shoot 'em, and then
it just kind of sucked because,

1111
01:13:49,341 --> 01:13:53,262
you know, I'm the one sitting there,
and I know what's going to happen to 'em,

1112
01:13:53,345 --> 01:13:55,764
but I-I… can't do nothing

1113
01:13:56,348 --> 01:13:58,559
if they didn't have the right paperwork,

1114
01:13:59,309 --> 01:14:05,149
which is a pretty crazy responsibility
for a 23-year-old.

1115
01:14:06,942 --> 01:14:10,821
I would like to think that
I didn't lose compassion for people,

1116
01:14:11,947 --> 01:14:13,699
but you definitely become numb.

1117
01:14:18,745 --> 01:14:21,999
Word was getting out that
we were going to close all the gates.

1118
01:14:22,082 --> 01:14:24,460
There was a lot of desperation,

1119
01:14:24,543 --> 01:14:26,462
people giving their kids up.

1120
01:14:33,719 --> 01:14:35,637
Some of those people had babies on them,

1121
01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:39,725
so they thought the best option
was probably, like, throw the babies over.

1122
01:14:46,231 --> 01:14:50,027
It was very surreal to see,
like, because I have kids,

1123
01:14:51,278 --> 01:14:55,032
and it was hard to think about
giving one of them up like that.

1124
01:14:55,115 --> 01:14:56,575
Yeah.

1125
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:06,126
I had a picture of my daughter
in my Kevlar.

1126
01:15:07,252 --> 01:15:09,463
Four days after I deployed
on my first deployment

1127
01:15:09,546 --> 01:15:11,215
is when my oldest was born.

1128
01:15:13,425 --> 01:15:15,385
My platoon sergeant also has kids,

1129
01:15:15,469 --> 01:15:16,970
and I don't know what it was,

1130
01:15:17,054 --> 01:15:19,640
but we kind of just bumped
into each other in passing,

1131
01:15:21,350 --> 01:15:22,976
and I ended up just breaking down.

1132
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,103
I lost it right then and there.

1133
01:15:29,233 --> 01:15:30,567
The new generation.

1134
01:15:34,988 --> 01:15:37,574
My wife was sick at the time.

1135
01:15:37,658 --> 01:15:38,575
She was weak.

1136
01:15:38,659 --> 01:15:40,744
She was not able to walk properly.

1137
01:15:41,453 --> 01:15:45,123
My daughter was so small,
and the American Marine, he said,

1138
01:15:45,207 --> 01:15:47,042
"Give me your daughter,
I will get her inside,

1139
01:15:47,125 --> 01:15:48,835
and you guys can come through the gate."

1140
01:15:50,087 --> 01:15:52,172
My wife was left behind…

1141
01:15:54,716 --> 01:15:56,677
…and they shut the gate after her.

1142
01:15:57,427 --> 01:15:59,596
And she's still back in Afghanistan.

1143
01:16:02,474 --> 01:16:03,892
That's terrible.

1144
01:16:06,395 --> 01:16:09,147
I was told that we will evacuate her.

1145
01:16:09,815 --> 01:16:11,858
I have not seen anything.

1146
01:16:15,612 --> 01:16:16,947
I was happy.

1147
01:16:18,824 --> 01:16:20,617
Suddenly you lose everything.

1148
01:16:23,912 --> 01:16:25,664
You have a happy life,

1149
01:16:27,374 --> 01:16:29,585
and you lose it in one day.

1150
01:16:34,298 --> 01:16:36,300
To compound matters,

1151
01:16:36,383 --> 01:16:39,720
intelligence was received that ISIS-K…

1152
01:16:40,387 --> 01:16:44,474
So in other words,
the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,

1153
01:16:44,558 --> 01:16:48,395
had a branch in Afghanistan
called ISIS-Khorasan.

1154
01:16:50,606 --> 01:16:54,067
Khorasan is the ancient name
for that part of the region.

1155
01:16:54,151 --> 01:16:56,069
ISIS-K was planning an attack.

1156
01:17:01,366 --> 01:17:05,454
We got told that
it was going to be a suicide bomber

1157
01:17:05,537 --> 01:17:09,833
that would be probably clean shaved
with a black bag with an arrow on it.

1158
01:17:09,916 --> 01:17:12,127
We were searching for this guy.

1159
01:17:12,210 --> 01:17:14,296
We didn't know when he was going to come.

1160
01:17:14,379 --> 01:17:16,632
And everybody was just kind of like,

1161
01:17:17,215 --> 01:17:20,302
"All right, how do you want me
to pick that out of here?"

1162
01:17:20,385 --> 01:17:23,347
You know, there's thousands of people
in front of me.

1163
01:17:23,430 --> 01:17:26,141
We were kind of at a standstill
just holding everybody back,

1164
01:17:26,224 --> 01:17:30,103
waiting to get the final word
if we're pulling out or not.

1165
01:17:32,397 --> 01:17:35,525
And somebody screamed, "IED."

1166
01:17:44,201 --> 01:17:45,369
The bomb went off.

1167
01:17:48,288 --> 01:17:52,834
I saw a big cloud of smoke,
and an arm flying through the air.

1168
01:17:54,628 --> 01:17:57,297
My ears are ringing.
I can't hear anything.

1169
01:17:57,381 --> 01:18:00,133
And I start seeing a face in front of me.

1170
01:18:01,134 --> 01:18:02,427
Like, it didn't look alive.

1171
01:18:02,928 --> 01:18:06,598
And I was just like,
I couldn't process who that face was.

1172
01:18:07,391 --> 01:18:12,562
I jumped up and started to run
towards the hole in the fence

1173
01:18:12,646 --> 01:18:14,898
that we had cut through the Abbey Gate.

1174
01:18:14,981 --> 01:18:17,901
An officer grabbed me
and tried to stop me.

1175
01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:20,612
I told him to get
his fucking hands off of me,

1176
01:18:20,696 --> 01:18:22,531
that those were
all of my friends in there.

1177
01:18:23,115 --> 01:18:25,492
And I turned around
and started running towards…

1178
01:18:25,575 --> 01:18:28,495
Now I could see
pretty much just a pile of bodies.

1179
01:18:29,538 --> 01:18:32,124
And the first person that I came to,

1180
01:18:32,207 --> 01:18:36,420
um, was one of my best friends,
uh, Corporal Daegan Page.

1181
01:18:37,462 --> 01:18:40,424
I just knew as soon as I saw him
that he was dead.

1182
01:18:42,175 --> 01:18:45,637
Somebody grabbed one side
of his chest rig, and I grabbed the other

1183
01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:48,473
and started dragging him back to the hole

1184
01:18:48,557 --> 01:18:50,016
that we had in the fence.

1185
01:18:50,559 --> 01:18:53,395
My captain told me that he had Page

1186
01:18:53,478 --> 01:18:55,647
and told me to go back
and get more people.

1187
01:18:56,481 --> 01:18:58,525
So I left him…

1188
01:19:02,612 --> 01:19:04,197
and, uh…

1189
01:19:06,032 --> 01:19:07,075
Sorry.

1190
01:19:28,346 --> 01:19:30,766
And I start hearing screaming
and, like, snaps coming.

1191
01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:35,645
I thought I was seeing stars or something,
but they looked like flashes.

1192
01:19:35,729 --> 01:19:38,273
My mind immediately went to,
"I'm getting fucking shot at."

1193
01:19:39,441 --> 01:19:41,943
I had gotten shot in my left shoulder.

1194
01:19:44,738 --> 01:19:46,281
I was about 10 yards from the blast.

1195
01:19:47,449 --> 01:19:49,826
The canal wall was right here,

1196
01:19:49,910 --> 01:19:52,537
and then he was
just on the other side of it.

1197
01:19:55,081 --> 01:19:56,875
My right lung had collapsed.

1198
01:19:57,751 --> 01:20:01,505
A bearing hit me in the jaw, in my lat,
and then stitched up on my right side,

1199
01:20:01,588 --> 01:20:05,300
and I was shot
down in the bottom of my right leg.

1200
01:20:06,551 --> 01:20:09,471
And I'm walking out, stumbling out.

1201
01:20:09,554 --> 01:20:11,681
It feels like I'm breathing
through a straw.

1202
01:20:13,767 --> 01:20:16,269
Daegan Page and Max Soviak,

1203
01:20:17,312 --> 01:20:19,356
those two were inseparable.

1204
01:20:20,357 --> 01:20:21,566
They were just good dudes.

1205
01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:24,820
Everywhere Max went, Page went.
Everywhere Page went, Max went.

1206
01:20:32,244 --> 01:20:36,790
Max and Page were behind me
by a little bit, and then we got hit,

1207
01:20:36,873 --> 01:20:40,293
and when I turned around,
I crawled over somebody.

1208
01:20:40,377 --> 01:20:42,754
And to this day, I'm still convinced

1209
01:20:42,838 --> 01:20:45,590
that who I crawled over was Page.

1210
01:20:47,425 --> 01:20:49,177
But yeah, they didn't make it.

1211
01:20:56,226 --> 01:20:58,270
That's when I tried to grab Kelsee.

1212
01:20:59,980 --> 01:21:04,025
Kelsee Lainhart was part
of the female engagement team.

1213
01:21:04,943 --> 01:21:08,071
I grabbed her,
I drug her as far as I could.

1214
01:21:09,239 --> 01:21:11,783
I've kind of come to the realization,
"This is where I die."

1215
01:21:12,284 --> 01:21:13,201
"Fuck it."

1216
01:21:14,911 --> 01:21:16,037
I just rolled over.

1217
01:21:16,538 --> 01:21:18,331
"This is where it's going to happen."

1218
01:21:18,832 --> 01:21:21,001
Got as comfortable as I could
and laid back.

1219
01:21:23,044 --> 01:21:27,132
And then I looked to my right,
and there's all this screaming going on,

1220
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:28,383
and there's, uh…

1221
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:31,428
I see Wyatt coming in on a stretcher.

1222
01:21:32,429 --> 01:21:35,974
They sent me down in
a dimly lit hallway, while this JSOC doc

1223
01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:37,851
finds me pulseless.

1224
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:44,983
He takes a shot in the dark
and performs a emergency thoracotomy…

1225
01:21:47,277 --> 01:21:48,653
last-ditch effort.

1226
01:21:50,864 --> 01:21:54,492
They cut through your sternum
and then they hand-pump your heart.

1227
01:21:56,620 --> 01:21:58,580
He got me going again and then,

1228
01:21:59,205 --> 01:22:01,750
I'm not sure how many units of blood
your body holds,

1229
01:22:01,833 --> 01:22:05,503
but whatever they gave me is
the equivalent of an entire body's worth.

1230
01:22:19,142 --> 01:22:23,730
Wilson, he's got a tattoo
on his, I think his shoulder or his arm,

1231
01:22:23,813 --> 01:22:25,732
and it sums up his entire life.

1232
01:22:25,815 --> 01:22:28,109
It says, "I'm too stubborn to die."

1233
01:22:28,193 --> 01:22:31,571
And it's the truth,
because he is a stubborn son of a bitch.

1234
01:22:34,074 --> 01:22:36,284
I did not know he was ISIS,

1235
01:22:36,368 --> 01:22:38,536
but through the investigation
and everything,

1236
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:40,372
like, when I got back to California,

1237
01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:42,582
I kind of found out it was ISIS.

1238
01:22:42,666 --> 01:22:45,001
And the guy had actually been in jail,

1239
01:22:45,627 --> 01:22:48,922
but he was freed
when the Taliban came through.

1240
01:22:51,549 --> 01:22:52,592
Yeah.

1241
01:22:53,969 --> 01:22:57,430
We had, uh, 13 service members KIA.

1242
01:23:00,558 --> 01:23:04,646
Seeing Wyatt is like a gift.

1243
01:23:04,729 --> 01:23:06,356
Uh, it really is.

1244
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,275
Like, when I saw him on that stretcher…

1245
01:23:16,866 --> 01:23:18,660
…and, like, when I see him now,

1246
01:23:19,411 --> 01:23:21,579
like, I don't know,
I just get filled with joy.

1247
01:23:21,663 --> 01:23:24,082
Like, I don't know how to explain that.
Like…

1248
01:23:24,165 --> 01:23:26,543
Like, I'm just so happy he's here.

1249
01:23:30,588 --> 01:23:34,050
Two or three days after
I woke up, they wheeled me over there,

1250
01:23:34,134 --> 01:23:35,844
and I got to meet Kelsee.

1251
01:23:37,095 --> 01:23:38,680
Your brain's scrambled,

1252
01:23:38,763 --> 01:23:42,475
so you don't really realize
the significance of everything.

1253
01:23:44,269 --> 01:23:47,022
Thankfully, those guys
actually pulled her out.

1254
01:23:48,064 --> 01:23:49,607
She came to my retirement.

1255
01:23:51,317 --> 01:23:52,610
She was paralyzed.

1256
01:24:01,077 --> 01:24:02,954
Like, every night or every other night,

1257
01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:04,581
we would get, like, an intel brief

1258
01:24:04,664 --> 01:24:08,126
of how many people we saved,
like, throughout that week.

1259
01:24:14,382 --> 01:24:17,260
Towards the end, it was
like 120,000 people. Like, damn.

1260
01:24:24,267 --> 01:24:26,853
It feels good

1261
01:24:27,812 --> 01:24:29,522
to have done something,

1262
01:24:29,606 --> 01:24:33,735
to have been a part of it,
and to help people's lives.

1263
01:24:33,818 --> 01:24:34,986
It feels good.

1264
01:24:36,029 --> 01:24:38,364
But at the same time,

1265
01:24:39,783 --> 01:24:41,242
what was it worth?

1266
01:24:43,453 --> 01:24:46,956
This might not be the politically
correct answer, but in my opinion,

1267
01:24:48,917 --> 01:24:53,546
I would not have traded a single
Afghan life for any of my friends.

1268
01:25:03,765 --> 01:25:07,560
I noticed it pretty quick that I was like,
I should not have come home.

1269
01:25:08,269 --> 01:25:10,563
I should've been in the hospital
for two more months.

1270
01:25:13,274 --> 01:25:17,737
Thankfully, they forced me in
to go see a psychiatrist,

1271
01:25:17,821 --> 01:25:20,240
because I never
would have done it by myself.

1272
01:25:20,740 --> 01:25:23,368
And still to this day,
I see that same psychiatrist.

1273
01:25:25,036 --> 01:25:28,540
I didn't want to talk about it.
I refused to talk about it. I hated it.

1274
01:25:32,293 --> 01:25:35,421
Then once I realized, like, talking
about it, it's okay to talk about it,

1275
01:25:35,505 --> 01:25:39,092
It's okay to be
vulnerable for five seconds…

1276
01:25:39,175 --> 01:25:41,761
And trust me, I have a huge fucking ego.

1277
01:25:43,012 --> 01:25:45,640
And when I finally do drop it

1278
01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:48,143
and realize it's okay,

1279
01:25:48,810 --> 01:25:51,437
things start getting better really fast.

1280
01:25:58,111 --> 01:25:59,779
-Dada?
-What's up?

1281
01:25:59,863 --> 01:26:01,656
How do you get on this rock?

1282
01:26:01,739 --> 01:26:03,992
-Huh?
-I want to get on that big rock.

1283
01:26:04,075 --> 01:26:06,119
-You're scared on the big rock?
-Hey!

1284
01:26:07,537 --> 01:26:09,831
-Let me down.
-Let you down?

1285
01:26:09,914 --> 01:26:11,249
Dad, stop!

1286
01:26:11,332 --> 01:26:13,334
Stop holding my butt!

1287
01:26:15,295 --> 01:26:17,130
So I had Pops on my first deployment.

1288
01:26:20,466 --> 01:26:23,595
And then Pagie… Pagie was born in 2022.

1289
01:26:23,678 --> 01:26:25,221
She's about to be four.

1290
01:26:26,264 --> 01:26:30,935
And then she's named after
Daegan Page and Max Soviak.

1291
01:26:32,228 --> 01:26:36,482
But I shortened Soviak to Sovi, so
it kind of fits her a little bit better.

1292
01:26:40,737 --> 01:26:43,740
Pops lived it.
Yeah, she saw me in the hospital.

1293
01:26:45,450 --> 01:26:47,493
She was two and a half at that point.

1294
01:26:47,577 --> 01:26:49,162
Yeah, she's my little trauma baby.

1295
01:26:49,245 --> 01:26:52,373
We're going through this thing.
We're going through it together.

1296
01:26:52,457 --> 01:26:55,293
She's raising me
as much as I'm raising her.

1297
01:26:55,376 --> 01:26:58,046
Scenes of desperation
and chaos in Afghanistan

1298
01:26:58,129 --> 01:27:00,256
are being seen around the world.

1299
01:27:01,633 --> 01:27:03,801
I don't even know how to explain it.

1300
01:27:04,594 --> 01:27:07,513
I can barely explain it to you guys
in a way that makes sense,

1301
01:27:07,597 --> 01:27:11,184
let alone to an 8- and 9-year-old
when they get to that age.

1302
01:27:11,267 --> 01:27:12,435
-Oh!
-Huh?

1303
01:27:13,186 --> 01:27:16,022
Daddy, I have these lemons!

1304
01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:18,399
Look!

1305
01:27:22,654 --> 01:27:26,157
My kids, they've seen me
shirtless with my bullet scar,

1306
01:27:26,241 --> 01:27:28,076
and they've asked me what it is.

1307
01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:31,204
I don't like to sugarcoat it,
because I got shot.

1308
01:27:31,955 --> 01:27:35,541
There are bad people in this world,
and some of them try to hurt you.

1309
01:27:38,878 --> 01:27:41,673
My wife hates it because they're already
saying they want to be Marines

1310
01:27:41,756 --> 01:27:43,967
and put her through that trauma.

1311
01:27:44,592 --> 01:27:47,804
And now we got to see our kids
go through it? That would probably suck.

1312
01:27:51,766 --> 01:27:56,229
Since the Taliban regained
control of Afghanistan in 2021,

1313
01:27:56,312 --> 01:28:01,150
some 200,000 Afghans,
many who supported the US war effort,

1314
01:28:01,234 --> 01:28:03,778
have found refuge in the United States.

1315
01:28:06,155 --> 01:28:08,533
I got on the plane
like it was a charter flight

1316
01:28:09,117 --> 01:28:13,788
from Kabul to Bahrain
and from Bahrain to New Jersey.

1317
01:28:14,998 --> 01:28:19,627
In New Jersey,
I've been in a camp for like a month.

1318
01:28:21,754 --> 01:28:24,507
Then I left the camp to come to Arizona.

1319
01:28:26,134 --> 01:28:28,594
Right now, I'm doing Amazon Flex,

1320
01:28:28,678 --> 01:28:32,682
like just an hour and two hours,
three hours a day,

1321
01:28:32,765 --> 01:28:37,228
because I can't work properly because
I have my kids all the time on me.

1322
01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:40,064
I'm waiting on my wife until she joins me.

1323
01:28:42,483 --> 01:28:45,528
She is the wife of a former pilot.

1324
01:28:47,196 --> 01:28:51,617
Since 2021,
she's living under the hijab all the time.

1325
01:28:53,453 --> 01:28:56,039
It's the Taliban rules.

1326
01:28:58,291 --> 01:29:01,544
She do not feel good at all.

1327
01:29:03,546 --> 01:29:06,966
You lose your husband, you lose your son,
you lose your daughter.

1328
01:29:07,759 --> 01:29:09,135
What's going to happen to you?

1329
01:29:17,685 --> 01:29:24,067
The irony is the existential
threat to American freedom and liberty

1330
01:29:24,150 --> 01:29:28,071
came not from
these terrorists in Afghanistan,

1331
01:29:28,654 --> 01:29:31,407
and not from the threat of terrorism,

1332
01:29:31,491 --> 01:29:35,036
but from our nation's response
to terrorism.

1333
01:29:36,704 --> 01:29:43,461
Bin Laden really believed that he could
never destroy the United States,

1334
01:29:44,128 --> 01:29:46,964
but by attacking the United States,

1335
01:29:47,048 --> 01:29:51,302
by sort of pricking
the edges of the US empire,

1336
01:29:51,386 --> 01:29:55,223
he could cause
the United States to destroy itself.

1337
01:29:56,724 --> 01:30:02,063
If you start to scratch at
almost any aspect of our daily lives

1338
01:30:02,146 --> 01:30:04,816
in the United States today,

1339
01:30:04,899 --> 01:30:08,820
I can show you how 9/11 changed
that part of our country.

1340
01:30:14,409 --> 01:30:17,453
We see the harm that this does

1341
01:30:17,537 --> 01:30:22,625
to our own sense of legal constraints
on the president's authority.

1342
01:30:22,708 --> 01:30:25,920
We see these military tactics
coming back home.

1343
01:30:26,003 --> 01:30:27,171
What the hell?

1344
01:30:27,922 --> 01:30:30,967
We see some of the treatment of Americans

1345
01:30:31,050 --> 01:30:36,889
that looks awfully familiar for people
who've seen the War on Terror abroad.

1346
01:30:36,973 --> 01:30:39,517
-Bro--
-Get the fuck off him!

1347
01:30:43,104 --> 01:30:45,273
And now realize,
"Oh, it's a terrible thing

1348
01:30:45,356 --> 01:30:48,901
when a single person
can order a use of military force

1349
01:30:48,985 --> 01:30:52,989
or order a use of force that's lethal,
and there's nothing I can do about it."

1350
01:30:53,823 --> 01:30:55,658
The Trump administration now confirms

1351
01:30:55,741 --> 01:30:58,828
it hit an alleged drug boat
not once, but twice,

1352
01:30:58,911 --> 01:31:02,957
the second strike ordered after the first
failed to kill everyone on board.

1353
01:31:05,793 --> 01:31:08,880
This military operation,
I won't use the word "war,"

1354
01:31:08,963 --> 01:31:13,259
they don't like the word "war,"
because you're supposed to get approval,

1355
01:31:13,342 --> 01:31:15,720
so I'll use the word "military operation."

1356
01:31:16,679 --> 01:31:18,222
We will finish this

1357
01:31:18,306 --> 01:31:23,186
on America-first conditions
of President Trump's choosing.

1358
01:31:23,895 --> 01:31:26,439
Death and destruction from the sky.

1359
01:31:30,401 --> 01:31:32,695
People generally think
the War on Terror is over.

1360
01:31:32,778 --> 01:31:35,656
Their political leadership
has told them of that.

1361
01:31:35,740 --> 01:31:40,203
Well, the authorities, the institutions,
and many of the operations persist.

1362
01:31:40,286 --> 01:31:41,621
They just find new targets.

1363
01:31:45,208 --> 01:31:50,046
We should not fool ourselves into thinking
that we have seen its final form.

1364
01:31:50,129 --> 01:31:52,465
It will come for more and more of us.

1365
01:32:01,766 --> 01:32:05,436
We really are
at an inflection point in terms of

1366
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:08,940
there has to be soon a large turnover

1367
01:32:09,023 --> 01:32:13,152
among the very aged politicians
who've been in power for a long time.

1368
01:32:14,987 --> 01:32:16,864
And it is true, just read the polls,

1369
01:32:16,948 --> 01:32:19,700
the younger generation
thinks differently about these things.

1370
01:32:22,078 --> 01:32:24,914
My students literally weren't born then.

1371
01:32:25,456 --> 01:32:30,002
9/11 to them is like,
uh, World War II to me.

1372
01:32:30,503 --> 01:32:33,506
Or even less so,
it's an even dimmer memory.

1373
01:32:34,173 --> 01:32:38,010
They've kind of inherited
the current situation.

1374
01:32:38,594 --> 01:32:41,055
We don't know what it's like to not have

1375
01:32:41,138 --> 01:32:45,226
police officers in the subways
or on every corner.

1376
01:32:45,309 --> 01:32:48,104
It's a lot more scary for us to think that

1377
01:32:48,187 --> 01:32:50,273
if we're in the wrong place
at the wrong time,

1378
01:32:50,356 --> 01:32:52,316
our lives could be affected immensely

1379
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:54,652
or even just our lives taken away from us.

1380
01:32:55,319 --> 01:32:58,489
Events like that happen,
things that are so catastrophic,

1381
01:32:58,573 --> 01:33:02,868
they change the world,
but there's nothing we can do about that.

1382
01:33:02,952 --> 01:33:06,539
So we just kind of live
in the different world.

1383
01:33:15,798 --> 01:33:18,467
What did we get
from the war in Afghanistan?

1384
01:33:20,219 --> 01:33:22,430
This is the longest war
in American history,

1385
01:33:22,513 --> 01:33:25,099
and it's also the longest war
in Afghan history.

1386
01:33:26,517 --> 01:33:28,352
So it's this intergenerational trauma.

1387
01:33:30,229 --> 01:33:32,773
I've spoken to a lot
of American soldiers over the years,

1388
01:33:32,857 --> 01:33:37,445
and it's unclear if you talk to somebody
who landed in 2021,

1389
01:33:37,528 --> 01:33:41,907
what they're doing at that moment
has to do with the 9/11 attacks.

1390
01:33:46,162 --> 01:33:48,331
I mean, we got the guy in charge of it.

1391
01:33:48,414 --> 01:33:50,583
You can say that's a plus,

1392
01:33:51,292 --> 01:33:54,378
but it wasn't until
10 years fucking later.

1393
01:33:55,087 --> 01:33:59,425
At 25 years since 9/11, how do you
make sense of the global War on Terror?

1394
01:34:01,135 --> 01:34:04,388
That's the million-dollar question, right?
Was it worth it?

1395
01:34:11,228 --> 01:34:14,899
I feel like I went through so much,

1396
01:34:14,982 --> 01:34:18,027
and my family went through so much,
when I was so young.

1397
01:34:20,237 --> 01:34:25,826
The fact that I've made it out of it,
like, shocks me a lot.

1398
01:34:29,497 --> 01:34:31,999
I wish I knew what I would have been like

1399
01:34:32,083 --> 01:34:35,211
or what my life
would have been like before,

1400
01:34:35,294 --> 01:34:37,088
but I didn't really get a "before."

1401
01:34:38,422 --> 01:34:43,177
I'm kind of just trying to catch up
with, like, a life that I lost.

1402
01:34:46,555 --> 01:34:49,433
I'm just going to keep
trying to do my best.

1403
01:35:00,319 --> 01:35:03,989
Since the 25 years,
our American society has become divisive

1404
01:35:04,073 --> 01:35:06,617
and just not willing
to listen to each other.

1405
01:35:09,370 --> 01:35:12,415
So it is critically important
to have dialogue

1406
01:35:12,498 --> 01:35:15,543
and a constructive way
of resolving differences.

1407
01:35:17,753 --> 01:35:20,506
History will judge
based on what we do right now.