20 Years After 9/11

Majority 54

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm Jason Candor.
0:04.9	I'm Robbie Gupta.
0:06.0	And this is majority 54, the podcast that helps Americans who voted for progress, convinced
0:10.7	those who didn't to join our majority.
0:13.8	Robbie, welcome back from Costa Rica.
0:16.2	What's going on this week?
0:17.3	Well, Jason, I'm sitting actually from where I'm sitting.
0:20.5	You could see one World Trade Center and it made me think, you know, we should start
0:24.8	this episode by just marking the 20th anniversary of 9-11, which is coming up in a couple
0:30.5	days.
0:31.5	I was reading something from George Packer this past week that got me thinking and he
0:35.6	wrote this.
0:36.6	He said September 11th is buried so deep under layers of subsequent history and interpretation
0:41.9	that it's hard to sort out the true feelings of that day.
0:45.8	But let's try.
0:47.0	Where were you back then 20 years ago?
0:50.6	And what were your immediate feelings?
0:52.3	So I was going to college in American University in Washington, DC.
0:56.9	I was in my last year of college and I remember that morning, stopping into the student center
1:03.0	because everybody was gathered around the TV and seeing, I don't remember it now if it
1:08.7	was the first or second plane hitting the tower.
1:10.8	I think it was the first.
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