Welcome to the show everybody on this on this solemn day of remembrance 18 years is a long time that is I know

That's what everyone is saying today, but 18 years is a very long time. I was in 10th grade on 9-11

And now I'm 33. I've got three kids going on number four and I know this is again something everyone says, but

It is I think about this a lot that my my kids generation will grow up with 9-11 as

In historical fact not a lived experience, but just as a matter of history for them

And that's very weird to think about 9-11 to my kids is going to be like you know

What that with the JFK assassination was to me growing up

Which is I can remember growing up and hearing my parents talk about it and talk about what a what a what a defining

momentous event it was for them, but for me it was in May as well of happened 6,000 years ago because it just it was in it

Basically anything that happens before you were born even if it happened a day before you were born

It may as well be all the way back and ancient times but as far as your concern because for you

The moment you're born it is it's all it's all after you know

There's no before and after it's just it's all after it's all just in the past

From your perspective and that's how 9-11 will be and is for my kids and all kids from now on

But those of us who are who are older, you know, we remember and I guess the tradition on 9-11 is to say where you were when it happened

So I was as I said I was in the 10th grade

and we were in health class our remember and and

We were in the middle of whatever lesson and another teacher poked her head in and said to my teacher

You might want to turn on CNN and so they turned it on and

And and the first image we saw was the the first tower in flames and then like

Almost everybody else that day we watched almost in real time as the second plane hit then within an hour

Maybe two hours we were all sent home for the day

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