I can hear you!

I can hear you the rest of the world hears you and the people.

And the people who knock these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Yeah!

Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope you all have had a wonderful week before we get into

today's episode. I just wanted to take a second to remember 9-11, which happened unbelievably

18 years ago today. So that means that tomorrow for the first time ever there will be adults in

this country 18-year-olds who were not alive when 9-11 happened, which is crazy to think about. I

was only nine years old. I was in fourth grade, so of course I don't remember everything vividly, but

I do remember my teacher. I remember what she was wearing. I remember them, the teachers,

and the administrators giving us all envelopes with letters inside that we were to give our parents

to read to us. And I remember my mom reading that letter in our kitchen and not really knowing

what to think. I remember she said that we might have to go to some secluded place, leave our house,

and I just didn't have the capacity to understand, of course, soon learned after that the

significance of that day. And I do remember, I know it's hard to believe because I was so young, but I

do recollect the feeling of unity and of patriotism that followed 9-11 in a very vague sense, of course.

One of the things that sticks out in my mind was when the Dixie Chicks talked badly about George Bush,

said that they were embarrassed to be from Texas because of him and the decisions that they were

making that was a little, those later after 9-11. But I remember the backlash that they got, and it

was almost like the pushback was unanimous because you just didn't at that time question the

leadership of our country after something so tragic can happen. We put down our differences for

a short period of time, and we were Americans before we were Democrats or Republicans. Of course,

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