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Trumpet Daily — #2906: Accountability for 9/11?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The Trumpet Daily Program begins right now. Today's world news, what it means, where it's tickets. I've been using it one and only, possible, not big or boring, upbeat. This is a message of hope, tremendous hope. And he said, and to me, you must promise I'll get it. The Trumpet Daily Program begins right now. We are gathered here a few days after the AFD's election victory in Saxony on Halt. What did this election victory trigger in you? Horror. And the fears of the members of the religious community who are naturally concerned with these issues. And again, I am very worried that I show this so often, more or less,
and that people who see any possibility of leaving Germany will do so. I didn't dare to publicly express my thoughts on how anxious I am personally. Is this day ja vu? Do you feel like what you saw as a child is something that could repeat itself? The rise of a party that is radical, racist, anti-Semitic, and excludes others? I'm 100% certain of this, and I very much hope that I have supporters who feel the same way. I keep bringing up politics, which is, after all, the only sphere that has the opportunity in the public sphere to prevent people from sliding back into a terrible era as a result of the voting decisions they've made.
There's a danger looming that did not exist in this form 10 years ago. There have always been Nazis. There have always been Jew haters, but not in the way as it's the case today. As far as the AFD's ideology is concerned, how close is it to what you experienced in the NSDAP? Very close. Very close. Strong words from a Holocaust survivor there, talking about people needing to leave Germany because of the rise of the AFD recent polls are showing they're getting about 30% support from Germans and some of the other popular, what were the more popular parties are down to 18, 19, 20%. Things are stirring in Germany, and the US economy, meanwhile, is just teetering on the brink you're listening to Stephen Florian.
This is the trumpet daily. We appreciate you joining us on today's show, lots to get to. You can get to the live video stream of this program at our channel, our Rumble Channel, the YouTube channel, and of course our website. Just go to the trumpet.com, and there's a banner at the top every day, right around the time of the live stream, so that you can click on it and watch. If we have time, I think I might have promised this. I didn't promise it, but we said we might play it on Monday. We didn't play it yesterday, but it's the longer version of the 9-11 montage that we put together for last week. I think it runs about 26 minutes. When you go through that anniversary, and the program, by the way, that we ran on the key of David over the weekend, I think we had nearly 2000 responses to that, 2000 requests for the last hour book, which was a very strong response. We were excited about that, that we can get more of God's literature into the hands of viewers.
But then, too, just seeing because it was the 25th, seeing all of these tributes, and these articles, the commentary, it was sobering, and also kind of upsetting, and just how many things, how many new things that we're learning, even this far off, this far away from 9-11, 25 years on. How soon we forget, but also how long should it take to reveal the details? It's kind of like the Thomas Crook's affair. There's new details coming out about how quickly his body was cremated, and it was some anonymous donor that did it. All of these fishy details, President Trump's calling it out, saying that, well, it's because of the corrupt FBI. But nobody was punished. And in the case of 9-11, the mastermind behind it, he's still in Guantanamo awaiting his trial, 25 years on.
We don't learn the lessons of history, and then added to that, we don't understand the significance of what we're looking at face to face. Germany is re-emerging, and this woman you heard right there is, she's terrified. She knows the history. She's lived long enough to remember. More people should listen to her words, her warnings. When there's turmoil in Germany, when there's political division, you just look out for big dramatic changes. We've been anticipating the Daniel 8 man for so many years. How close are we? You heard about the recent elections a couple of weeks ago, Saxony and Halt and the AFD rising in popularity.
Friedrich Merz, this Reuters piece under pressure at home. Merz cancels UN appearance source says he was going to appear at the UN and receive this award, the Henry Kissinger award, I think it is. And as Richard Palmer said in the notes this morning, it's not often that a European leader will not be on hand for receiving an award. How much we love to receive rewards or an award for whatever, some kind of a prize. You're doing great, but there's so much turmoil at home. Merz has decided to skip out. Says here, Merz's conservatives have called a special meeting for Sunday, a party source said earlier on Tuesday, the source said the aim of the meeting was to coordinate the party's response to votes this coming Sunday in the states of Mecklenburg, Western,
Pomerania and Berlin, CDU's polling at 18 to 20% and the AFD's at a record high now, 30%. And it's terrifying a few, a few people, 30% further on in this piece. It says that the Union reaching a historic low while speaking of the CDU. According to the GMS poll, the governing black red coalition of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the far left SPD would no longer command a majority. So political upheaval in Germany, I didn't bring them today, but you think of all those clips by Herbert Armstrong about the beating heart. Of Europe, how that Germany is going to lead the way. How that Europe has been anchored to Germany, Germany is the natural leader.
And then look at the history, look at its history and war making, even in the last century, two world wars. Ursula Von der Land, she gave a state of the EU speech this week, here's what she had to say, clip four. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This is how Charles Dickens describes Europe in the days of the French Revolution. And it is also a fear description of the world we live in. The speed of change is incredible. The challenges exceptional. So if I look at Europe today, I would say the state of our Union is the strongest it has ever been. The state of our Union can also feel as precarious as it has ever been. These two statements may seem incompatible, but they are both true.
And they reflect these exceptional times. This complex age of on one hand great possibilities, and on the other hand great paroles, which all countries are seeking to navigate. In this world Europe has chosen to forge its own path. This is the work we've done over the last years. And a stronger, more independent Europe is now emerging. Almost sounds like what Mr. Armstrong said about the paradox of our time. Europe is stronger than ever. The state of the Union, it's the strongest it's ever been, and yet all of the precarious events are the peril that we're in. So there's the, there's the pro, they don't as if they needed another prod. They've got to unite, they've got to come together. Even reaching out to Canada the way that it is, it seems like that's a stepping stone to a two tiered Europe.
We know about the 10 Kings, Revelation 1712. The 10 Kings are emerging and there to be headed up by by Germany. All of this strength, all of this unity, and all of this trouble, all of these evils multiply. That's prophesied. We've spent some time this week on artificial intelligence. And here again you hear the optimists talking about AI solving the problems of the world. And then the other, here again a paradox, but then there's dangers. We do need to talk a little bit about the dangers. Here's more from Vonderlay and clip five. That is a Europe better able to defend itself than ever before. One that has radically overhauled its approach to securing our homelands. That has increased defense spending by almost 80% in the last five years alone.
As I often say in class, I'll slow down at verses or scriptures and say, now just think about the strength of this. We went through 2nd Thessalonians 2 this morning about the man of sin and how he's coming is after the working of Satan. It's easy to just read over that or to kind of soften it a bit in our minds and think, well, you know, Satan, he does have an influence. But did he really sin that man was that man, his instrument, his tool? He certainly was. That's what 2nd Thessalonians 2 says. Here she is saying that Europe has increased defense spending by 80% just in five years. What does this mean? And why is this happening? Well, because of the precarious nature of this world, because of this evil world, because of how dangerous this world is. They've got to have their military machine and Germany's leading the way. Germany's building a war machine.
There was a story just in again, it's the Atlantic, so you have to take it with a little bit of a grain of salt. The American age is over, a superpower in decline. You see those kinds of pieces all over? I'll get to Ambrose Evan's Pritchard in just a second. He's talking about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. He's talking about how the US economy is about to collapse. And of course, he doesn't see anything of a serious nature in Europe or Germany. But he sees a world in a lot of turmoil. He said it's going to be an interesting winter. He's not real optimistic. He's not real hopeful. Here's a more from Vonderland, clip six. But our path is clear. Building an independent Europe that has the power to act, nothing can divert us from this.
But let's fight together for our European idea. An independent Europe. And you know what's been happening in recent years. With NATO basically blowing up. And you've got this marriage now between Europe and Canada. Carnie just driving Canada into the ground. I'll get to more on that if I have time. One final clip from Vonderland, clip seven. Our trade deficit with China is now one billion euros a day. It has reached a tipping point. Some say the second China shock is looming, but it's already here. It shows in our communities and factories across our union. It leads to deindustrialization and industrial heartlands of Europe. This is unsustainable. And this is why we engaged in a dialogue with China to rebalance our trade.
But this dialogue must now lead to results. China's weaker domestic demand means it also needs our European market. So it isn't both our interest to work together and find solutions. But let me be very clear. We will use all tools at our disposal to rebalance our relationships. There's your Mart of Nations. Right out of the book of Isaiah, this story that I've got about Russia and their support for the AFD, Melanie Phillips wrote it. That's pretty revealing too, particularly when you think about Germany and Russia and their secret alliance. All of these anti-American forces, all of the anti-American trade practices that are taking shape right now in response to Scott Bessent and the Trump people who are saying we are invincible.
We're too big to fail. We can prop up the Japanese currency or we'll do whatever we want to test me. Just test me. Well, the world is testing him. The bond yield percentages, they just keep going higher and higher and higher. Have you been to a gas station recently? He even here in America to see what the price is for diesel. That's what fuels the trucks that distribute all of the goods all over the country. And when those prices are high, the prices for everything is higher. Ambrose Evans-Prichard, he talks about this in his telegraph piece, but this one here from Melanie Phillips. She talks about all these people supporting the AFD and she's like, yeah, it's shocking. It's alarming. It should be. And then she says, support for the AFD, however, comes from a seemingly unlikely quarter, Vladimir Putin.
The Russian President's special envoy, Karel Demetriev, enthused that the AFD's success was in historic win. It's just great. Sounds like the Trump people. Yeah, it's wonderful, Elon Musk. Get more far-right groups in there. And yet this is a far-right group that hasn't exactly disassociated itself from Nazism. And then Vladimir Putin of all people, like she brings out what an unlikely alliance. It makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes with Russia, with Germany. You heard Ursula there talking about, we've got a strength in trade with China. Do these nations, do they really want to see America succeed? Do they want to see America continue to be the lone superpower in the world? Or are they angling, plotting, scheming to bring down the US giant?
Well, you know there's motivation to do that all the more because of Orange Hitler. You got to take him out. He's a danger. He's a danger to the world. Melanie Phillips says here, this is a pragmatic alliance between Russia and European populace, based on a mutual aim of smashing the existing Western order. They come together, these enemies, when they know they can take out a common enemy. That's the way China's thinking. That's the way Europe is thinking. That's the way Russia's thinking. Melanie Phillips says, whether or not Putin is himself a sincere Christian believer, he thinks of himself as a latter day Peter the Great with a sacred duty to reestablish the ancient Russian Empire. Well, what happens when the Daniel Aitman shows up and he's here to reestablish the ancient European Empire, the Holy Roman Empire.
What happens when all these empires clash? What happens when there's a clash of civilizations? What we were given a snapshot of it on 9-11. In his 2021 book, The Great Awakening, Dougan identified, well I can move on from there. I want to get to some of this from Ambrosa Evans-Prichard. He's no fan of President Trump. But as I say, he's talking about the Four Horsemen. That's straight out of Revelation 6. And that's a parallel passage to the Olivet prophecy. The prophecy of Jesus Christ, just a couple days before his crucifixion. And it's hardly even referenced in the world of traditional Christianity. In Prichard's mind, the four major problems in the world today.
US Treasury crisis, diesel prices, skyrocketing, as I just mentioned, whether disasters are upsets, and then the investment into artificial intelligence. Like our cover of the Trumpet says, we are all in on this gamble and it is a gamble. All the chips are on the table. We are banking on the fact that this is going to be a huge victory for America. Because as you heard earlier this week on this program, we're way ahead of China, says Trump. So we're going to win this. We're going to break in trillions. Our position is as strong as ever. Prichard says, four powerful shocks are hitting the world economy at the same time. They're escalating and feeding on each other, driving a commodity spiral that can end only an inflationary blow off. You see it. You see it again.
Auto pin has to take a lot of the blame for the runaway inflation during his years. But it continues. It continues. And there's some other positive things happening, I suppose, with the economy, although even the stock market is taking a hit recently. And then you look at prices. The effects are ripping through the global bond markets and confronting central banks with an impossible dilemma. Yeals on 10-year US Treasuries have surpassed 5 percent smashing through the imaginative defenses of Scott Besent. You heard the audio clip from him last week. Go ahead, test me. Try him. He's very confident. All of the Trump economists are very confident. They know what they're confident about. AI, as long as you have a high IQ president running the show. That just makes you think of so many of those proverbs about pride and vanity and what God thinks of it.
And how that pride comes before the fall. It says here, the first two horsemen of the apocalypse. Conquest war, famine and death in the book of Revelation are the twin towers or twin wars. My mind's still on the twin towers. We'll get to that. The twin wars in Iran and Ukraine. And he talks about the skyrocketing prices for fuel. Diesel, as he mentions, and then also just the cost for oil, crude oil. The US lacks the military means and policy coherence to stop the regime carrying out this threat, speaking of Iran. It says further on, the stress, the headline price of oil drastically understates the gravity of what is happening. The stress has switched to diesel, petrol and jet fuel, the products that we consume and that matter for inflation.
Because of all the shipping. And you see the shipping crisis because of Hormuz. That's on the front lines, but then you look at the prices for jet fuel and diesel. US diesel at the pump has risen over the last year from 372 to 623 a gallon. That's in dollars. That's almost double. Just in the past year, it is diesel that powers tractors, combine harvesters and the global farm economy, as well as trucking construction and much else besides. The diesel horror story will lead mechanically to less planting on marginal loss making fields, compounding a food shortage in 2027 already building up for other reasons. He talks about weather upsets, the so-called natural disasters, El Nino and so on.
Extreme weather is why the water gauges on the line fell to an all-time low in August. We've had quite the drought here in Oklahoma for six weeks or so. The grass is brown, the water, the water is receding and so many of our ponds and lakes. The fourth horseman it says, of course, is the investment blitz in AI, advanced chips and data centers along with the electrical infrastructure, transformers, substations and gas turbines needed to sustain this $20 trillion nexus, leaving aside the little matter of whether it will soon annihilate humanity. That's been in the news too, as you heard yesterday, as you heard last week on this show, all of these conflicting reports, all of these different opinions, all of this division. It says here at some point, perhaps within months, perhaps not for another year or two, the wars will peter out and oil will flood back into the market.
El Nino will peak in November and will be over by mid-27. It says, exasperated citizens will rain in Silicon Valley, and drastically ration data centers, cut throat competition from cheaper Chinese AI startups, et cetera, et cetera. He says, though, at the end, I just want to leave you with this. But before the West democracies have to deal with that mess, they will first have to deal with the four horsemen riding knee to knee, and we seem to be in no fit state to handle the challenge. Rarely, says Ambrose Evans, pritchard, rarely have I felt such a deep foreboding heading into winter. So we've got to brace ourselves. We've got to be emotionally and spiritually, above all spiritually prepared for what's coming. Now is the time my father makes the point. This is in the Daniel, the Daniel booklet. If I can find, I think it's Daniel Unlocks Revelation, a book of my father wrote many years ago. He talked about how that we need to see, you know about the Daniel 2 image, you know about the prophecies in Daniel 7.
But as my father said in that booklet, we need to see God the Father behind these images, these beasts. In the case of Daniel 2, it's God and his kingdom that smashes that Daniel 2 image. And the whole image comes crashing down. You can get to that booklet, Daniel Unlocks Revelation at our website, and I'll just refer you to this brand new book, The Father's Love, and I'll just focus on the father. As I say 9-11, it was a horrific preview of much worse to come. And so I think it's fitting to finish today's show with that extended version of the montage or documentary, whatever you want to call it, that just gives us a synopsis of what happened on that dreadful day. You're listening to Stephen Florian. This is the trumpet daily. We thank you for joining us on today's show, and we'll see you tomorrow.
Wednesday's time, 9-12, the major disaster in New York City this morning. Working news now on 10-10 wins. Well, we now have some insight as to what's going on here here. The FBI is now investigating reports of a plane hijacking before these crashes were telling you about it, the World Trade Center towers this morning. The rescue crews are making their way to the scene, and all of us unfolding in one of the busiest places in the world, downtown Manhattan. Again, both towers hit by aircraft. Again, two planes involved in two crashes into either tower or the World Trade Center at about 10-9 and 5-9 this morning. Pieces of the building and the planes actually landed blocks away. Gideon was walking with his camera when he found a chunk of the plane engine that he crashed completely through tower two.
The south tower was 125 feet from the north, and on the 105th floor, a large meeting it assembled in the offices of Aon Insurance. Joe Dittmar was at the meeting. The lights flickered, a gentleman came into the room and said that there had been an explosion in the first tower, and that we had to leave because we were being evacuated. Throughout the south tower, the alarm spread and evacuation began. Most of the people had little idea of what had happened to the north tower or how severe the damage was. People on the 105th floor began down through the stairwell, and on the 90th floor, they noticed a door open. They filed out of the stairwell. We went out onto the 90th floor. I don't even know whose offices were there, and that's when we first had to chance to experience what was going on.
We're 30 seconds in my life. The first thing that I noticed was screaming. A man, a very distinct voice of a man screaming, oh my god, oh my god, and a woman just shrieking. So obviously I had to look. I looked out. You could see that the first tower was engulfed in flames. It was a gaping hole in the building. And then things just coming out of the building, just falling out of the building. The furniture and the papers and the people. The person just wandered to the side of the building, obviously choking and blind from the smoke. And since the floor had been blown away, it was jagged. Probably didn't realize where the end of the floor was and just fell right out of the building. And as you stand there at the window, you just watch this body drop. And your stomach and your knees drop right along with that. And then another and then another.
That just scared the day like that. The mortal peril of those trapped in the north towers our purplores was becoming increasingly clear. Desperate for air, windows were broken. People plung to the side of the building. A hundred stories out. Workers in the south tower looked at them from just feet away. To see these young people doing the sign of the cross and jumping, you were like, oh my god, it's got to be awful up there for people to make that choice. To want to jump and know that you're going to die. And you can't pull your eyes away. The smudges you like to. Just out of sheer dignity for them, you'd like to. But it's very hard to do that.
I kept saying to myself, this is not a movie. This is real. These are real human beings that are smashing. It's just that that's not a full thing to just see. Some people are crying. Other people had this shock, disbelief. They gazed up and then they just kept on walking. I just keep looking up and just utter disbelief. And I'm thinking to myself, how they're going to put this fire out? How are they going to put a fire in two buildings like this out?
The thing that's going through my mind is like, okay, this is horrific. But the worst is over. I mean as bad as it is, the worst is over. Now it's time to put the fire out, rescue the people that are trapped in the upper floors. So I'm walking through building four, past the security desk, and through the back of building four out into the plaza, which is an open square out between the both towers. When I walked out there, I really felt that I was in a dangerous place. I didn't really want to spend too much time there.
I was really uneasy. And that's when the destruction really hit me when I was out there. The plaza was completely empty and just destroyed. I was strewn with falling debris. Things were still falling continuously out of the sky. The glass, paperwork, huge pieces of sheet metal. The stuff was just raining down continuously. The sky, it was surreal. It was definitely surreal. I didn't, you know, it was just so overwhelming. And what kind of added to that feeling was seeing the destruction that was going on and watching these buildings burn. And in the plaza there's this speaker system that has music piped through a lot onto the plaza. So it's a bit of a step down there. I heard this music. It was almost like a music box kind of thing. It was kind of a music playing. I had cover from building four so I was kind of staying underneath this kind of canopy. So it's not be hit by a falling debris.
At one point I stepped out onto like a little footbridge where I could see Liberty Street. I could see the south wall of the south tower. And it was complete destruction. Cars won fire. And then what caught my eye was a company of firefighters that were making their way right alongside the south tower. You could tell that debris was hitting them and they were dodging debris and they were darting their way into the south tower. The one thing I'll never forget just for that brief moment where I stopped videotaping. I'm looking up at the towers and that's when I personally saw, you know, a body just flailing arms flailing. I look up and I see something that kind of caught my eye. So I zoomed in as far as I could. I see that it's somebody waving their jacket.
They had to be up at high 70s, 80th floor. Just below the line where there was like a raging inferno over this person's head. And this man was brave enough to try and figure out a way that he was going to get down. You know, he was standing out on the edge. I'm like the 80th floor trying to wave for help. He started what looked like to me. And I think I even mentioned it on tape. I say he's being lowered. I thought that somebody was up there, you know, rescuing him somehow and that he was being lowered down the side of the building because it looked like he was hanging on something. Either something that he had created or some kind of rope and he's trying to climb down, you know, the twin towers.
And you know, so he climbs down and he hangs on as long as he can. I'm thinking I'm shooting the most unbelievable thing that I will ever experience in my life. And then you can tell you start losing his grip and just boss. And it just crossed my mind that how bad it had to be up there. If that's their choice. What's going on? It's going to fall. Jesus Christ. The people who were going down stayed to the left and the firemen were on the right side of the stairwell coming up.
And that's that is a very haunting memory. Seeing all those firemen going up to staircases, we were going down knowing that probably they did not survive. There was a look at both determination and fear when their faces that I'll never forget. I see it every day. I think about it every day. You know, we definitely wished in God's speed. And if that was like down in the 30s, then they would hoff it and puff it in and I'm like, you know, when they will you need to be. And he says, be happy you're going down instead of coming up. We're on 78th, but we're in the same stand with Captain Leah. We got a wall for some fire up against you. That's it, you little. You've got to lend the heads of the dollar there. The eighth stand.
I said, well, we're going to knock down some fire here in the feet stand. We'll meet up if you get over to the eighth stand and help out see Thomas. That was the guy who set up the number one. The guy who set up the number one. He's on the full board 39. We're about to set up the number 39. Okay. All right, my memory up, Mario. 16.15. So, it's your 20th time at seven. I'm going to put it on one. It's not going to be all over it. It's going to have to get a different elevator. We're stopping for the wall to get out. There's no longer coming with that. That will run. That is at the right of one side. All right, guys. All building crash.
All building crash. Go! Go! Go! Where's the guard? Stay here. Got behind him. Three. Go! Go! Go! Help!
Help me, Jesus! A situation that started bad just gets worse and worse and worse. The World Trade Center, South Tower, which was hit by a plane and wrecked by an explosion approximately an hour ago, has totally collapsed. What happened? If you're just joining us this morning, here we go, a horrific surprise. The scene here was just one right out of one of the movies you would see in Hollywood. People walking around, just self-contained, holding their heads, looking up at what's left of the World Trade Center and just shaking their heads in disbelief. Out on the street.
Everyone knew what just happened. The South Tower was gone. They saw it collapse and ran. And then it just got silent for a while. It's the most eerie quiet you could ever imagine. Almost like the day after a huge snowstorm, where it's just kind of serene and silent outside.
You could feel on the back of your neck this all this warm ash, you know, just hitting the back of your neck. And it was very, the sound was very muffled. People were screaming at the top of their lungs. They were probably standing 50 feet from me and it sounded like they were a mile away. It was just muffled hollars. Help me, help me. People calling people's names. People just in shock. Help me. Gasping, coughing, didn't know if they were just going to fall right there on the street and be left in this pitch black cloud. Help me, Jesus. Help me. I can hear one woman hollering. Help me, help me, Jesus.
Help me, Jesus, please. And I didn't even know where she was. She could have been five feet from me but I wouldn't have known it. We're ready to go. Stay put. Stay put. I'll never forget there were a couple of guys in suits, you know, who kind of they were near the side of a car on the sidewalk. They stood up, just covered head to toe in ash, dust. Then I saw this EMS worker. He crawled out from below a police car. Just had this day's look. I pointed the camera at him and he just had this day's look on him. Like, you know, oh my god, what just happened. Hey, Jen, hello. Everyone is like covered in ash. Thousands of people down right now.
Right now. Where's the stem of? I just couldn't believe what I had witnessed. After doing this all these years and all the places I've been, things I've seen had just never in my life seen anything like this. Look like a nuclear holocaust. It was like a mass downtown turned into a war zone. What's in here? Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Okay, where we are? Here we go! Hey! Hey! Here we go. Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm gonna pop the block, I'm gonna west side out. We're like way to block the way. Stop it!
Stop your eyes. Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! We ended up walking towards PACE University. And before we made it to PACE we started to hear the second tower climb. We heard another rumble. And I don't even have time to think of that point. I just run.
And it's dead silence. There's nothing. No radio calls, no sound. Nothing. The scene here is reminiscent of a nuclear winter. Right now everyone is walking out of the mask covering their face. And people just wander in the stream covered in blood covered in plaster. They were near the site when the buildings collapsed. I guess the best way to sum this up is the World Trade Center is no more. The white one can only imagine it just an enormous.
They have a fireman's body in 10 and out on the floor. They dragged them in but they can't identify them. But the short wearer's name is just ripped out. The buildings started shaking. I started running and then the time I got to the bottom, the body set my grasp. Everybody please evacuate the area immediately. There's people crying. People injured. The one that sticks out in my mind is there's a guy. His arm had gotten like severed here and he was holding his right arm and his left as he was running. And his screaming as I was hiking. I needed a medic. I got a bad bleed. I wanted that kind of shock for me.
I'm going to get a gun. I'm going to get a gun. I'm going to get a gun. Hey! Get it! I'm going to get a gun. I'm going to get a gun. I'm going to get a gun. It's like my shadow. It's never going to go away.
It goes with me every place I go. It's the first thing I think about the morning. It's the last thing I think about at night. Every time that I've looked at a plane, every time that I've seen an aircraft, I have to watch that plane until it's passed and it's gone. Every day is a struggle. I miss laughing the way I used to. And as I walk to work every morning, the first thing I do is look at the skyline and see if all the tall buildings are standing. And then not walk by them. I went to war and I didn't ask too.
I wasn't trained for it. I wasn't prepared for it. And to be thrown into that, you know. It's tough to live with every day.
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