It's 18 years since 9-11. President Trump dumps his national security advisor John Bolton and

Republicans prevail in a North Carolina congressional bellwether election. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, today does mark the 18th anniversary. It's always weird to call it an anniversary of 9-11. There are a lot of people I know who are listening to the show who don't remember 9-11, who are too young to remember 9-11, which is an amazing thing. Because for people who were there, it was a seminal moment, much like I'm sure the assassination of JFK was for our parents and our grandparents. 9-11 was an earth-shifting moment. I remember

precisely where I was when 9-11 happened, we were dropping my sisters off at school, my father

and I, and people rushed out into the parking lot to tell us that the planes had hit the

World Trade Center towers. It was a moment of clarification and crystallization. It was a reminder

that the world is an incredibly

dangerous place filled with evil and foes who hate the United States of America. And it was a

reminder that America was still capable of coming together in times when America was under

attack. Because the fact is that it's divided as America was at the time, and I think America is

more divided now than it was in 2001.

The fact is that we were still able to recognize the common humanity in other Americans,

realized that we shared the vast majority of the same values, realized that we were all on the same

page on an essential key level. And we got together and we recognized that we had to go

and fight the people who had

murdered 3,000 Americans who had taken down the world trade centers, who had attacked the

Pentagon. It was a shocking and horrifying day, obviously. I still get a little bit nauseous

thinking about it. And I'm sure everyone who remembers it does. I mean, I'm not unique in that

capacity in any way, shape, or form. We all remember the sacrifice of the firefighters and the police

officers who were rushing into the towers as people were running out trying to save people.

We all remember the firefighters who were there for cleanup, many of whom have gotten disease

since because of all the, all of the asbestos and soot and dust in the air.

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