The Patrick Madrid Show: September 11, 2026 - Hour 3

0:00Hi Patrick Madrid here thanks for listening check out charity mobile and prayerfully consider making them your wireless carrier. mention offer code Patrick and get a free phone go to charity mobile.com Eddie. Eddie. Eddie. That's right. What? This is $737. You know, it wants 75th New York. Thank you. We have some problems over here right now. We wouldn't have a hijack over here too. I have a plan that's an hijack. I think it's going to go well. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. You got a information on that. Yeah, he's down. He's down? Yes. Why did he land? He did not land. No, the one just hit the building. Wow. 180 to 10. I'm going to die. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to die. Man, say your prayers. Yeah. You've got to think five.

1:00Because you've got to help me tell to get off the floor. I'm down. I'm dying. This needs no description or explanation for those who were there old enough to remember the events of 9-11. And the evil that was perpetrated on this country, some 3,000 people, innocent people who were murdered that day by violent Islamic jihadist terrorists. I know that may sound redundant, but what is saying Paul saying Romans 12, 21, do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. It's true, of course. And yet the question arises, at least in my mind, perhaps yours too, how do you overcome that kind of evil with good? What do you do? How do you do it? God's grace is more powerful than man's sin.

2:00That's for sure. And how do you stand up to that kind of evil and oppression? And at the same time, do what Jesus would do. Remember Jesus said in John 1633, in the world you have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world, including all of this. And in Revelation 21 verse 4, we're told he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Some people are still crying today because of those horrible events 25 years ago on 9-11. He will wipe you a wipe away every tear from their eyes it says, and deaths shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the former things have passed away. And in the meantime, we're living with the after effects of 9-11. I hope and pray as I know you do, that nothing like that would ever happen again. I'm not so sure.

3:03But don't be overcome by evil. The Bible says, but overcome evil with good. 888-914-9149. Let's go to Joe and Mount Prospect, Illinois. Hello, Joe. Good morning. I remember correctly, it was a Tuesday morning, and we were getting ready to go to the Fort Lutterdale Airport to fly back home to Chicago here. We had to keep the eye on. And at least at that moment, it was just reported that the plane had somehow accidentally hit the tower. So we went to the airport. So you were not at the airport yet when you had heard about it? No. We were getting ready, and just a few minutes away, we got the cab, we were on the way, and of course, once we arrived to the Fort Lutterdale Airport, we were told to turn around and go back home, which we did. We were stuck. Lights were canceled. Yeah, they were all canceled. And there might have been more emphasis on Fort Lutterdale Airport than maybe others,

4:07I don't know, but the emphasis might have been because I think one of the terrorists had been trained at the Fort Lutterdale Airport if I remember correctly. That sounds right. So we were stuck there for a few days, and it was an area feeling to drive by the airport and just see no planes flying in, no planes flying out. Nothing. Yeah. A lot of people, if I can interrupt, a lot of people were stranded for those days all over the country. And I can only imagine how many of them had no way to get home because of all the car rentals snapped up. People trying to make their way back home. Exactly. If I remember correctly, there were no cars available. But some of these later, we were able to get home and there were a couple of herbs on the... I don't know. Maybe I was just being suspicious of them and maybe others were as too, but after I don't

5:09remember one, maybe sometime after, I remember going to a healing mass in Chicago where I live. And we had an Italian priest who regularly had those healing masses and people claimed that he was able to help them through the interstession of God to become healed. But the reason why I mentioned him is I asked him, you know, about 9-11, all those people that died in the towers. And he claimed that Jesus spoke to him regularly. Now, whether you did an app, that's not for me to say, it's up to the church. But he claimed that he asked Jesus about it. And Jesus said that if I remember correctly, the figure was like 3,000 people that died, something like that. Whatever the number was, Jesus said that's the same number that are killed and a woman's womb. It's either daily or an animal. I don't know.

6:09In abortions in America. Yeah. I've heard many people draw that comparison. Thanks for that call. I appreciate that. I don't know if that statistic still holds today. It's been a while since I've looked at it. But I do remember that being a common thing that people would point out in some circles, at least, that as horrifying and terrible as it was, that 3,000 people perished on that day on 9-11, that is a routine number when considered in light of the horrors of abortion. Yet another layer of this tragedy. Let's go to Katie next and Helen, a Montana high Katie. Hi. How are you doing? I'm well, thank you. Thanks. Thanks for taking my call. So I do clearly remember that day. Like many people, even in New York, that what a beautiful day it was.

7:12And I felt the same way here in Illinois. I was at work. Katie, can you go in a different room where we can't hear the bird in the background, please? Sure. Okay. Okay. Yeah, it's very distracting. I'm afraid. Yeah. It starts scattering when I talk. But please go ahead. I'm interested in what you have to say. So anyway, that particular day was very beautiful when they were thinking how great and fantastic day it is. And then somebody said something's happening. And I was at work. They pulled out a TV and it was unreal. For my personal story, I had been away from the church many, for many years and had been considering coming back. And that particular day, tip the scale for me. So I did return to church, tip the scale in terms of like drawing you back home to the

8:17church to God. Yeah. I was considering coming back, but I had my hesitations and of kind of feeling that I'm not worthy, blow, blow, that. And that day, said, told, basically, I said, I'm returning to Christ and the church. That's beautiful. And you know, that's, I hate to say the silver lining in a terrible thunder, thunder cloud. But that is a silver lining. Those people who did turn back to the Lord like yourself. Thank you for that Katie. Thank you. And now in San Diego, hi, Rolando. I think that's interesting. I think my phone call here. Why are just a quite a couple of things? We just finally ran into that hours knowing that it didn't look good.

9:20I mean, they knew from experience bad fires and you know, fires that they could have been the kind of, but just to run into that place. I want to mention just two names. Yeah, quickly. One was a young thirty two year old man on flight, the United, 93 that the one that crashed into the Pennsylvania over there. Yeah. His name was Bob Beamer. He was Bob Beamer. He was. What's wrong? Oracle. He's the one that organized the passengers there to attack the terrorists and break into the pilots' room there. And the famous words that you heard over his phone recorded was that let's roll, right? And so that one kind of pans out into my mind as far as the average guy I've been encouraged to. And no, hey, we have to get this done.

10:23And the other person was this gentleman was a threat, decorated, vet. He was a security chief for Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley was on the 61st floor of the South Tower. 61 floors at is about 976 feet high. When he heard the other tower get hit, he immediately acted and started on a blow-horned falling people out. We got to get out of here, take the spare ways. So he came down the spare ways. He was set about 3600 people in Morgan Stanley, got out. For some reason, he decided to go back in and he never made it back out. And he went in to help people and sacrificed his own life in so doing.

11:25These kind of, thank you, Rolando. These kinds of stories are numerous. And we shouldn't forget them. We shouldn't forget the people who sacrificed their lives this way, like you're describing. I thank you for that. Most of emails coming in. Ellie says, in some ways, today feels harder for me than 2001. I think it might be because then we were bewildered. We had no idea what in the world was going on. Nor did we have any idea what might happen next. In the immediate aftermath, we pulled together fast forward to today. And we know exactly what was going on. And we know what happened and what happened next is that we were torn apart like never before. Yeah. And argue with that. We came together briefly and then we got torn apart, as you say. Lena in Chicago says, I know you're receiving an influx of emails today. I just wanted to write in and thank you for doing your broadcast about 9.11. And I listened to it every year.

12:25I'm 25 years old. She says I was six months old when 9.11 happened every year. My mom tells me the story of what she was doing that day. She worked in the John Hancock Tower in Chicago and was told not to come into work due to the events in New York. I can imagine. I have a one year old now, Lena says. And my husband and I talk about how important it is to make sure that he, her child, understands what happened in our country that day when he's older. Very true. Joey in College Station, Texas says our country has always had a great intelligence community. How did 9.11 even happen? Probably a psych... He says a psychosis operation. I think maybe he means a psychological operation, psychop, to coin a phrase, to make it harder to be a free country. Funny thing that this country has led more Muslims in since 9.11. How do you explain that? Now Muslims are trying to run for high office, isn't that interesting?

13:29Shannon says, and we're Shannon. She's listening on the relevant radio app. She says, we need to thank President Bush. He handled the whole thing perfectly. He made many of us feel better, not much better, maybe, but better. I remember those days. He threw out the first pitch. Was it the Yankees or the Mats? I forget which team it was. I should know that, but I don't remember. And that was a huge thing. Remember that, Cyrus? George W. Bush went out to the pitcher's mound and threw the... He made it to the catcher. It was a straight pitch. It was actually a pretty good pitch. And the crowd went wild. I think I saw that after the fact. I do remember football. It wasn't at the first week of NFL, and they canceled all the games. And I mean, everything got shut down. A lot of stuff got shut down. None of it. Who cares about the NFL? Of course, shut it down.

14:31And there was the fear, like, what if these stadiums get attacked? Do you remember, to your point, I hate to interrupt you, but I just remembered something. There was this, to me, kind of stupid and irritating phrase that was used a lot in the aftermath of 9-11. Well, if this happens, the terrorists win. Or if you do that, if you shut down professional sports, the terrorists win. This kind of mindlessism that I would hear people say, I don't think the terrorists cared one way or the other, whether or not professional sports continued or not. That wasn't their goal. Their goal wasn't to disrupt our sports teams. They had far more sinister motives in mind. I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I couldn't help but mention it. No, I had completely forgotten about that motto. I don't know what you'd call that slogan. Yeah, it was a slogan. I do remember that. Now that you brought it up, I had completely forgotten.

15:32Yeah. Yeah, don't let the terrorists win. That seems to have faded away, thankfully. Lyle wrote in to say, I tuned in as you were speaking about flight 93 and I wanted to comment. I read the book, Todd Beamer's wife, Lisa wrote a few years later, appropriately entitled, Let's Roll. What I recall most chillingly is how she described her first visit to the crash site. The way I remember it, she said that the immediate family of the victims were flown to Pittsburgh about a week after and then bus to Shanksville. As they neared the site, she looked out the window and saw local citizens standing along the road silently saluting them. That had to be a moving moment. I can only imagine Lyle. My gosh. And there was nothing left. I mean, there was a gash in the dirt and that's about it. Although debris from the plane, papers from people's briefcases, from passengers and things were found miles away from the crash site, I don't understand that.

16:34I don't know how that happens. A lot of that stuff just sort of, I don't know, get swept away, it seems. So many lingering questions about all that. Cyrus, did you read the official 9-11 report from the US government when it came out? Thick as a brick, like 600 pages? No, I did not. I read it almost in one day. I bought it same day that I could get my hands on it anyway. And it had many hundreds and hundreds of footnotes, lots of detail, rather small print. And I devoured it practically in one sitting because I couldn't tear myself away from it. And although some of it seemed helpful to me, a lot of it just raised more questions. How could that have been the case? How does that really explain some of the things that we were facing in the news media reportage of it? Yeah. I purposely didn't read it because I was at the high point of my conspiracy theory days.

17:34And I wouldn't have believed a single word in that book. It'd be interesting if you were to read it now 25 years later. It should go back and see what I think about it now. Kathy in Sagan, Texas says, I remember the tragedy of 9-11, like most of us do. I heard somebody ask, why would God allow this to happen? All I could think of was that God gave us free will. And I'm sure he is just as shocked as we were on their choice. Well, I understand what you mean. God is not shocked by anything. God knows everything all at once. But certainly this was not part of God's will that this terrible thing should happen. And Kathy finishes her note by saying, may the perpetual light shine upon the victims of 9-11 in prayers for their families. Amen to that. Hi, Patrick Madrid here. Thanks for listening to my podcast. In today's crazy world, finding companies that align with your Catholic values is a challenge.

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19:39So here's what took place on that faithful Tuesday, with the United States of America did about it and why it's one of the most important days in American history. September 11, 2001 began as a beautiful morning on the East Coast. America was at peace, not embroiled in any foreign war. Passengers boarded their early flights, headed to business meetings where to visit relatives across the country. Tragically, they were not the only ones who boarded planes that morning. 19 Islamic terrorists organized by the terrorist group that calls itself al-Qaeda, directed by its leader Osama bin Laden and drawn from four Arab countries also boarded planes that morning. All of the planes, the terrorists were split among four of them where cross-country flights, their tanks were full to capacity with jet fuel. Within an hour after takeoff, these 19 terrorists would hijack the planes, brutally murdered defenseless sewers and pilots and killed 3,000 innocent people. At 8.46 AM, a hijacked American Airlines flight leaving Boston crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center,

20:40the International Symbol of America's Economic Power. 17 minutes later, a second hijacked plane also departed from Boston, crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower. The two planes spewing their jet fuel, a United fires that burned hot enough to compromise the building's structural integrity. Hundreds of New York firefighters and police officers raised up the towers to rescue the victims, quite suddenly the buildings collapsed, killing 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, and thousands of trapped office workers. A third hijacked plane, leaving Washington's Delis airport crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US military, 125 Pentagon workers, or killed. The passengers of a fourth hijacked plane, this one leaving Newark International Airport, surely after the others, had just enough time to learn via their cell phones of the other attacks. Those on board decided that the nightmare would stop with them, unarmed, with no hope or survival, they fought the terrorists, crashing the plane in an empty field and Pennsylvania.

21:41They gave their lives so that more Americans would not die. We learned later that this plane, United Airlines Flight 93 had been heading for either the White House or US Capitol. The Islamic terrorists who launched these attacks made a number of claims about their motivations. But here's the truth. They did not murder thousands of Americans because they disagreed with America's Middle East policy. And they certainly didn't do it because they were poor and hopeless. They were all either from wealthy or middle class Arab families. They attacked America because they despised its values, most especially its freedom and tolerance. The United States, as the guardian of freedom in the West, had to be brought down. This attack would start that process. It would show the world that America was weak. The America lacked the will to safeguard its liberties and people. Been lotting called America a paper tiger. In the days immediately after the attacks, the terrorist leader and his many supporters

22:43in the Muslim Middle East believed he had proved his point. Mothers across the Muslim world named their babies Osama, Bin Laden's faced adorned posters in homes and kids in Pakistan or Bin Laden t-shirts. But only afternoon of September 14th, President George W. Bush visited the twisted, still smoldering wreckage of ground zero, where the twin towers had stood. And megaphone in hand, promised that America would not be cout. I can hear you, he said, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon. And they did. America launched its war on terror, destroyed the terrorist leadership, and sent Bin Laden into a decade of running and hiding. Within six months, kids in Pakistan were no longer wearing Bin Laden t-shirts. And 10 years later, the CIA located in a team of Navy SEALs killed the terrorist leader. America will always have her enemies.

23:45There will always be those who despise our freedoms, who hate our democracy, who want to see America buckle in the face of tyranny, to sacrifice our way of life to appease those who despise it. And we will always be faced with a choice, to surrender our freedoms or to preserve them, to grovel before those who hate us or to honor the lives of the nearly 3000 Americans who died on 9-11. But first, young Americans need to learn what happened that day. I'm CJ Pearson for Prager University. Yeah, we thank Prager University for that audio. 88-914-9149. Let's go to Mark now and Oak Lawn Illinois. Good morning, Mark. Good morning, Patrick. How are you? Not too great on a day like today, to be honest. It's just a question. It's been 25 years. And the big question is, what have we learned in 25 years?

24:45And in my opinion, I look at the Muslim religion, and I really have a lot of questions about it. I heard George W. Bush made a comment afterwards that after 9-11 he says, it's a religion of peace. And I think it's just the opposite myself. I mean, you've got Sharia Law, you've got taxes, you know, if you don't believe in it. And even, you know, they'll put you to death if you don't believe in it. And then I asked myself, Muhammad, you know, he married his wife. She was six years old or nine years old, you know. And, you know, it just doesn't add up. And, you know, and I think Bush might have made that comment because they're all about open borders.

25:46And I think that's one of the things that I want to come in here and invade our country. And it's caused a lot of problems. And you look over in Europe, you know, what's going on over there, you know, it's their self-destructing. Yeah, I understand your point. I think that that common phrase, Islam as a religion of peace, is at least when I hear Americans who are not Muslims say that, I think that is what they want to believe. Now, this doesn't mean, of course, that, you know, that all Muslims are violent because they're not, or that most Muslims are violent because they're not. But taken as a sociopolitical religious system, Islam itself is, it's hegemonistic, it's conquering. It is quite prepared to resort to violence

26:46as its deemed to be necessary to further jihad. Now, that's, of course, a nathema for many number of people nowadays, for whom they will not tolerate somebody saying that. They can't bring themselves to even listen to it because it cuts against the very, the foundation of this fantasy that they have erected for themselves, maybe out of psychological self-defense, perhaps. But it's wishful thinking to say that Islam is a religion of peace. And you may say, well, that's just your opinion. Well, cast your mind back over the last 1500 plus, 1600 plus, 1500 plus years of history, and look at the rise of Islam. Look how it started, look how it propagated.

27:48Talk about a colonial power. I mean, it's not a government, but all it does is colonize wherever it goes. It may take a long time, but eventually it will colonize the new lands where it has gone. And it's just a matter of historical record. The countless people who have been slaughtered in the name of Islam and Allah, Islam means to submit. It's a command, submit. So, yeah, it's not politically correct, of course, to speak in those terms about it. But I mean, it's a topic that's come up any number of times over the years on this program. You know, what do we do in a secular country like this? That is it, in some somewhat superficial sense, sort of ostensibly kind of sort of Christian, but not really, and our government and our laws are predicated upon pluralism.

28:50Everybody's welcome. Everybody has a seat at the table. Nobody will have their religious beliefs stifled or shut down, at least ostensibly. How do we deal with an entity, and by this I'm referring to Islam as a system? How do we in the United States of America within our framework of given laws and customs, et cetera? How do you deal with an alien system that seeks solely to completely subjugate that system? How do you say, well, everybody's welcome. You can build a mosque if you want. Okay, great. What happens though when the mosques become the hotbeds of jihadist violence as we know that they have been? What do you do with that? How do you fix that? Can you fix that in a secular quasi sort of ostensibly Christian society that's kind of sort of Christian,

29:56but not really? That to me is the question going forward 25 years later after 9-11. We look back on this now. And for those who have the gumption, the intellectual honesty, to name the cause of 9-11, we ask ourselves these difficult questions. Okay, all right, 25 years later looking into the future, what do we do now? Can this trajectory for lack of a better word of this colonizing totalitarian religious social political system can it be stopped? I don't see signs of that happening in Europe. I don't see signs of that happening, certainly not in the UK. Every time I go there, it changes more and more and more away from its English roots talking about England specifically here.

30:59And I have nothing against multiculturalism. Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of it. I'm multicultural. You probably are too. The United States of America is the multicultural success story if ever there were one. So I've got nothing against multiculturalism at all. But how do you handle a culture that is bent upon taking over and will use whatever means necessary to do that? You may say, yeah, but not all Muslims are violent. That's true. I agree with you. And I think the figure is more or less about 1.4 billion is the term that's used in terms of like how many how many Muslims exist around the world. It's not a it's not a racist issue. It's not a race issue at all because Islam transcends all races. It's all around the world. But yet let's use that 1.4 billion dollar number just for discussion here. And you may say, yeah, but they're not all violent.

32:00Okay. Well, what if only 1% of the total is violent? What would that be? Well, 1% of 1.4 billion people is 14 million people. So if we say, well, most Muslims are not violent. Okay, I can I'm happy to say that. I sure hope it's true. But that means that there's 1% who aren't in that category. That's 14 million of them. What if maybe I don't know and this might be a more realistic figure. What if maybe only 10% of the world's global Muslim population is violent, jihadist, let's destroy anything in our path kind of thing like the hijackers on 9.11 were that's 140 million people. 140 million people.

33:02How do you deal with that? 88 914 9149 continuing with our reflections on 911. It's going to Jamie and Illinois. Hi, Jamie. Hi, Patrick. Good morning. God bless you. God bless America on this. That day. And great day in a way because America has not been defeated. And yeah, you still, you know, we still keep our patriotic spirit in our sense of our purpose in the world and haven't been daunted by it. But I wanted to call in. When I heard you talked about this today, I was six months pregnant with my son. I was a teacher actually at the time. And of course, school just started like two weeks beforehand. And I picked up some bug being pregnant and, you know, picking up everything. And I was sick. And I was laying on the couch and I kept it turned the TV on just.

34:02I don't know why I just laying on the other TV on and that was when I immediately, the moment when I was when it happened and it was mind boggling to see it unfolding. As everyone else, you know, who thought, you know, felt. But being pregnant, I just, I think I had the sense of, oh my goodness, what sort of role am I bringing my child into and the sense of, you know, the great danger. And that we even had relatives of ours in laws who said, oh, we wouldn't bring a child into this world now. And just, you know, horrible things that, you know, just made a pregnant woman. How does God, what a misguided woman is. I know. Well, you know, I love this thing that my husband's aunt said when we were expecting, and she said, a baby is God's opinion, the world should go on. And I don't, there's no more point in then than ever. It was more point than than ever. But I see your baby that you are carrying at that time is now 25 years old, right?

35:02Yeah, or close to it. Yeah, going to be 25 in December, yes. And I, hearing your stories show this morning, it just dawned on me actually hearing the stories that, if fearful as I was for him, you know, being pregnant with him, and he's been working on that day, he actually works in cybersecurity and works to protect our country from, from threats. So I just never don't mean till this, till this anniversary that, you know, what came of that and that all those years ago, not that he was inspired by it necessarily, but it's amazing that God had a plan for him even way back then. And, and he's helping fight for the good. So just fund to throw that out there. No, that's good. I appreciate that. And I can just imagine how pondering 9-11 and it's aftermath for you with a baby on the way for you on that day, the kind of perspective that it gives you. Thank you for sharing that with us. Let's go to Ian now and San Diego, hi Ian. Hi Patrick, good morning. Thank you for taking my call and also thank you for the show that you're doing today to both bring awareness and, of course,

36:09recognition and remembrance to this, this faithful day 25 years ago. Thank you. So Patrick, today I'm calling in to shed a little bit of perspective as opposed to 9-11 baby. So for myself, I was, I'm all ears. Well, you're really interested in your perspective. Well, once again, thank you for taking the call and I hope to, you know, not only give a little bit of perspective for folks that are my age, but also help people understand a little bit of the perspective I have is. Yeah, so share that perspective on that. How would you summarize? Oh, so Patrick, I am in the active duty service here in the military. And I would say that for me specifically 9-11 despite being born after it, it, it changed my life. And despite, you know, really upon being born, the world had changed and it still set the trajectory of my life forward.

37:12When did you first become aware of 9-11 as a kid? kindergarten first grade second grade. When did it, when did you learn about it? So I would say likely elementary school. I was raised in North Texas and Texas schools did a phenomenal job of paying honor and respect to the anniversary. So it had put it on my radar. Now, I'm the youngest of three brothers. Both of my parents had met serving active duty in the military. They had three boys. My oldest brother joined, my middle brother joined. And it was an absolute no brainer for me that as soon as I was eligible, I wanted to join. It's part of your decision to join. I'm just wondering here, the result of knowing what happened on 9-11 and you want to be part of the protection of the United States, that figure in at all or no? I would absolutely, yes, I would absolutely say so. And due to the influence of the military and my family, as well as essentially having a peak behind the curtain is the kind of bravery that ensued following September 11, 2001.

38:24It's very difficult to look at that and say, no, I don't, I don't think I'd like to be part of that, growing up, those kinds of things were instrumental in developing my character. As well as just creating mentors and people that I looked up to and a lot of those people factored into the United States military. And I would say that that was big regarding my life. Would you say that a lot of your peers, men and women, your age in the military, have your awareness of 9-11 or is it an afterthought for them? I would say so that there's absolutely an awareness of it. I am blessed, Patrick, to serve as some of the most incredible men and women of my generation. Beautiful. So stay safe, Ian, and thank you for what you're doing. I'll be right back.

39:45Alright, I'd like to start tonight with a land acknowledgement. This is the greatest land in the history of mankind. And if that bothers you, you, your communist and hippie buddies should get the hell off it. Adam Corolla. I can't say that I disagree with him. You don't disagree with him, Cyrus. I can tell by the look on your face. I cannot say I disagree with that. Me either. I wonder if he'll run for president or governor or mayor or something. What a trip that would be. Let's go to Mary and Aurora Illinois. I'm sorry. I'm very welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I just wanted to share my thoughts of 9-11.

40:49I happened to be starting a brand new job in my high school that I graduated from. And I was so excited because back in the day. Oh, no. I mean, you can round the number if you want to. I'm not trying to be nosy. I just want to get a sense of how old you were when it happened. Okay, well, I'm 72 now. And that was 25 years ago. So early 50s. And actually, I know that late 40s late 40s. Okay. Okay. Well, that's not my, my, my, my best subject. But anyway, that was my high school. I was during my high school years. I was a team mom. We didn't have what, what we had when I was there at 9-11. And what that was, that was a daycare for team moms on site so that they could finish their high school education and move on with their lives. They weren't penalized because they had become team moms.

41:52So here it is. I was waiting up that morning. My husband's, um, he had already retired young and he'd gone off fishing that day. And so we, we hadn't had the TV on yet until I got to work. And everybody's going, my, my faculty co-workers are going, have you heard? Have you heard? And, and of course, it became all that we were hearing that day. We've got these young mothers bringing us their babies and somewhere, in Finston, somewhere maybe, uh, young toddler. Now, keeping mine, we're kind of short on time. I don't want you to run out of time. Okay. They just thought the world was ending. And we thought the world is definitely gone crazy. So my comment is was, or is to that, that as scared as we were as adults, it was our job to assure these young mothers that the world is not ending.

42:53We're going to be okay. We're going to be okay. And what we had to help us through that day was it was, it was being announced. You know, all our churches, I'm Catholic. All our churches were holding services that evening and they said, go. Pray, pray, attend, attend. So we got through it. What did we learn from it? Oh, many, many things. Do we fix things? I'm not sure about that. But I will say faith got us through it and those, some of those young babies that we had there, they, they are now professional people. And when they run into me now and with their moms, they just take me and I was so glad to be part of that. And it helped me get through that crazy knowing that I had to help others. So that's my comment just that I remember it as a very, very scary type indeed. It was I hear the emotion in your voice, Mary, it's bringing back memories for you, isn't it?

43:54Oh, it is. It really is. And I had a brother that served in the Army and I mean, he made it through. He wasn't involved at that time. And then in 2015, I was lucky enough to go to New York with a group of good, good Catholic women and we went to ground zero. I must have been unbelievably powerful for you. Thank you, Mary. God bless you. I appreciate your phone call. It's good to Michael now and Iowa. Hi, Michael. Good morning, sir. And yeah, all the people that have positive comments about Patrick, sitar, Risen, Rello radio, diddo, diddo, diddo. I know we're short on time. Thank you, sir. But I'm not unique, but I haven't met anybody who was an American who was out of the country at the time and the company I worked for. I did a fair amount of traveling and internationally. There was a big machine tool show, handle for Germany is the trade fair capital of the world, basically. And I'm there early, our team missed all the flights because they were shut down.

44:56I went to my hotel the first day and that was the morning of September 11th and I'm unpacking as you do a little bit and you flip on the TV to see what's going on. Nothing in English and I see the news. And so I run down to the town square where I know there's a TV shop and somebody will speak English and translate for me and I watched the second one. And it's a really strange and different experience than I hear everybody else talk about because my family, my wife, children, extended family, friends are watching this. And you see animated the zooming out of Hanover and Hamburg, the faces of the terrorists, these Islamic crazy. You had it. Muhammad Otto was in Hamburg for a while wasn't it for quite a while wasn't he? I can't remember all the names, you know, I believe he was, I believe he spent quite a bit of time in Germany. So how would you summarize your point? Fascinating. How would you summarize it?

45:56It's just a completely different perspective than everybody that I heard on the radio today and my family and friends because I'm there thinking my wife and kids are watching this and they're seeing the terror in the same town where their dad is, where their husband is. And when we went to the trade shows, no more American meetings. There are people with machine guns walking up and down the trade fair aisles, which is eerie, almost terrifying, but not it's reassuring. Actually, they're protecting everybody and Europe at the time had already been through a lot of terrorism and they had the policing and seriousness about them that we hadn't. And when we come back and had the young national guards in our airports protecting us air quotes without bullets, a lot of them and their kids and it was just almost laughable. I know they were trying. I know that it was not our society at the time, but Europe was way ahead of us on that point at that time because they had to be and now, you know, all the other crazy things that go there and here.

46:57Now, no doubt in lessons learned that's for sure. I hope I pray that we've learned the important lessons. Sometimes I'm not so sure. Thank you, Michael. It's got a Matthew now in ultimera California. Hi, Matthew. Hi, Patrick. I'd like to agree. I'm not so sure either. You know, honestly, quite frankly, not defending one, but take it to heart. Yeah, we've lost our Judeo Christian ways. That's something we have to reflect in the mirror. You mean as a country, thankfully, there are huge swaths of devout Christian folk, certainly devout Catholics. Thank God. Yeah, so I can be grateful for that. Yes, that wants a reverse course. We've fallen, I think, since the 60s, everyone knows that it's been around our parents that were part of the 60s that we get. We hear the vitriol tour of tippy's. I mean, my father was one. He happens to be a Catholic now and, you know, as repented for it.

48:02It doesn't stand by those those those ways of that in Berkeley and stuff, but, you know, in the interest of time, if you don't mind, because we're short on time, do you have a takeaway you want to share with me and with us? I try to reverse this idea of when we have free will that we can just do whatever we want. And that's what makes our country so great. I don't think that's what God is is saying here. I think God is saying we have free will. So do our best to try to not contracept ourselves out of existence. Good point. I'm certainly in agreement with that. Thank you, Matthew. We'll go to Gabby now in Chicago. Good morning, Gabby. Hi, good morning. I'm sorry if I sound a little shaky, but I remember the day so well. I was working for a Catholic pilgrimage company at the time. My husband was in Ireland with 30 people on a pilgrimage. They were in Limerick and I thought alive. I always watched the news in the morning, getting ready to go to work. And it was like it was eight in the morning, probably around that time when you started watching.

49:08Yes, what was your reaction? I was in shock. I couldn't believe it. I was like, is this real? Is this what is going on? Is this I kept on saying this can't be real. This can't be real. In the meantime, my husband told me that when he was a Limerick on the bus, they had just finished mass there. And they the people that were on the bus, one of the women worked at the twin towers and all of the people that she knew that she worked with. So immediately afterwards, they were invited to. They couldn't they couldn't come back to the States. So the people in the aftermath. They offered their homes because they couldn't the end of the trip was then 9 11 that day. And so the people at the parishionn invited them to stay at their home. That's so generous of them to do that with that there were more time, Gabby. There's so many memories for us to share. Thank you for your call. Let's go to Michelle and Illinois quickly. Michelle were tied on time, but you had a thought.

50:15I did. I just think we should mention the man who knew it was FBI agent John O'Neill. He there's a documentary on him by front line was on PBS. He tried to investigate al Qaeda after the USF call was bombed and then the ambassador from America over there wouldn't let him back into the country. And he was just kind of thwarted at every turn. He had kind of a real strong personality turned some people off, but he knew something big was going to happen and he didn't know where or what, but he had what he worked security at the Twin Towers and he trained everybody on evacuation procedures. And he died that day didn't he? He did. Yes, I remember reading about that amazing story. Thank you, Michelle.

51:16Three hours is not enough as we look back with sorrow and hopefully lessons learned on this 25th anniversary of 9-11. Thank you for spending the time with me. God bless you. I'll pray for you. Please pray for me and God bless America.