Ibi Nation, Notre Dame fans, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

It is Thursday, September 11th. And before we start today's show, I feel like the memory of today has been a little bit overshadowed by some of the other evil that's been happening in our world.

Evils that have been happening in our world the last few days. But I always try to

remember to start today off with just a reminder of people of, of kind of what this day represents,

what this day means, especially for people of an older generation like myself

who, uh, you know, who were a little bit more grown for that period of time. And,

and it's, uh, remembering what we went through as a country. But I also think about what we were

like the day after 9-11, when we were as unified as we were. And there was a feeling of,

of, of, we were all one nation we all of

different races and different stripes and different political views but we were one nation and

how I pray that we could somehow get back to that after everything that we've been going

through and that's just this day reminds me even more so of that Trevor and I And I just like to start to show off of that. And I was, when I was with Angela at the hospital at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital or St. Joseph Hospital, there's a beam from the towers there and a memorial for 9-11. And it's just scrolling the names of the people that were lost that day. And you just remind, you know, what that meant and, you know, just all the things that have

happened since then.

So I just want to, you know, remember that day and remember the men and women who sacrificed

that day, the firefighters who ran towards danger while everybody else was running away.

They ran to the police

officers that saw it and ran to it, they have a level of courage that someone like me will

never understand. And it is greatly appreciated and we will never forget their sacrifice and all

of the other citizens who just were going to work that day and lost their lives simply because

they were Americans and didn't believe in something that somebody else believed in.

And then you see how that's now so much more prominent in our country, which is sad.

And Trevor, something you and I were talking about before we got this show started.

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