Stan.

Yet after America was attacked, it was his if our entire country looked into a mirror

and saw our better selves.

18 years ago today, the worst attack on American soil, yeah, and something happened.

Some people did something.

That was Michael W. Smith, his song, there she stands.

I find that extraordinarily powerful.

I mean, when evil calls itself a martyr, when all your hopes come crashing down, someone

pulls us from the rubble and there she stands and inserted in there was a court was David

Letterman.

You know, I remember in Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani will join us in an hour, his recollections

of that day.

I'll tell you, he was the right guy in the right place at the right time.

And the world looked at him.

I was watching in that jail documentary on this this morning.

And he was like, I didn't know I was talking to the world.

I just thought I was talking to my constituents in New York, because I knew they had it in

them to rise to the occasion and not lash out and blame.

He said all of that that day.

But when Letterman says this gives new meaning to the phrase America is bravest and finest,

he was talking about the NYC, NYPD police, our firemen, our first responders.

In other words, the people that ran up the buildings while enrissed their lives and

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