20 Years Later, a 9/11 Firefighter Uses His Grief to Help Others

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🗓️ 11 September 2021

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Twenty years ago today, Islamist terrorists struck America. Across the country and around the world, Americans were left battered and broken in the aftermath of the first significant attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. Life could never be the same after Sept. 11, 2001. But life didn't stop after that terrible day. Survivors had to go on, amid immense pain and suffering inflicted by those who would destroy our way of life. The question is how? Tim Brown is a retired New York firefighter who survived 9/11. He's also a motivational speaker who uses his grief and trauma from that day as a tool to help others work through their own issues. “For every person who was obese, pregnant, injured, disabled, there were four or five office workers, not cops or firemen, helping that person," Brown says of what he witnessed that day. "And it made me proud of humanity, because we help each other. That's what we do.” Brown, 59, joins this bonus episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss what he experienced on 9/11 and share how others can push past their own awful circumstances. Enjoy the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, Doug Blair here. In honor of the 20th anniversary of 9-11, we're giving
0:11.4	you a special bonus episode of the Daily Signal Podcast. Today's guest is Tim Brown, a
0:16.8	retired New York firefighter who risked his life on 9-11 to save innocent people trapped
0:21.5	in the World Trade Center. He shares his story from that day as well as he worked through
0:25.6	the trauma and grief from that tragedy. Enjoy the show and God Bless America.
0:41.6	Our guest today is Tim Brown, a former New York City firefighter who risked his life for
0:46.3	others for nearly 20 years. Tim is a survivor of 9-11 as well as a first responder to the
0:51.6	1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. He now works as a motivational speaker
0:56.4	and works to honor the memory of those we lost on 9-11. Tim, thank you so much for joining
1:00.7	us. Thanks a lot for having me on.
1:02.8	So before we get into some of the heavier topics, I'd like to ask you something that's
1:06.5	kind of like always blown me away. So when you were a firefighter, you put your life
1:11.6	at risk every day to save other people. What inspired you to become a professional firefighter?
1:17.4	Did you always want to be a firefighter or was this something that developed later in life?
1:21.6	Here's the backstory on that. When I was 12, 13, 14 years old, I was a bad kid. My
1:29.3	home life wasn't that great. My parents were getting divorced. I was lost in the middle
1:33.8	of five siblings altogether and it all ended. I was just not a good kid. I was failing
1:44.9	in school and a house caught on fire across the street from where I lived in Newington, Connecticut
1:51.8	and with my dad, all the boys went running down and all the fire trucks were there and these
1:59.8	poor neighbors houses burning. There was a classmate of mine. I was 15, he was 16, so he
2:06.8	was the coolest one in our group because he had his license. He was from the other side
2:12.4	of town and I said, Jay, what are you doing here? You live all the way to the other side
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