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Hello and welcome.

And you may have noticed that I did not put up a 9-11 tribute post on social media.

This year there was something about it, but it felt a little bit like fiction.

It's difficult for me to explain what I mean, but I'm going to try to.

Like every single person, I remember exactly where I was when the plane hit the

first hour. I was 12 years old and I was in a middle school music class.

But more importantly, I remember exactly how I felt.

I felt scared and I felt confused.

But as the weeks following that day went by, the initial fear and confusion migrated into something

else into an almost sense of security, a real sense of American pride.

Someone shared an old cliff of Sammy Sosa who hit a home run two weeks after 9-11,

he drapes himself in an American flag in the clip and he ran around all of the bases.

That really embodies how I felt.

That was how we all felt that we were in something together.

This was an America long before social media.

We just had TV screens.

We hung on to newscasters, every word and every syllable.

And every word and every syllable during that time,

blood, red, white, and blue.

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