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September 11th 2025 this program begins now football is happening on this September 11th

2025 and I am an old man and I happen to be at an age of, you know, memory and remembering whatever

September 11th, 2001 took place 24 years ago.

I was in high school and obviously it was a devastating day.

It was a crazy day.

It changed this world mightily, not just here, but obviously around the globe as a whole.

And what I remember about that, and we will never forget all the lives that were lost

and all the badasses that ran towards fire

and buildings collapsing and the heroes that stepped up

amongst us in the middle of the crazed,

terrible chaos that was taking place in our biggest city.

And then I'm from Pittsburgh,

there was a plane that went down outside of our city. And then obviously the Pentagon had a plane hit it as well. And it was just a bunch of news and it was crazy. I don't think any of us fully understood what was happening. But I do remember on September 12th, 2001, it felt like our entire country, no matter what you believed, no matter where you were from, we're all together as one. We're unified more

than I think I've ever witnessed in my entire 38 years of existing. And I think that is something

that a lot of people that were able to live through it who, you know, believe in the good

of people instead of the bad of people. We hope that we'll be able to get to that level of

unification in our society at some point yet again.

It's almost like we're chasing that in hopes that we can be a, you know, I don't want to

say everybody has to get along and everybody has to agree, but at least we can move forward

without hating each other, which is seemingly what social media has done to us in a way

that I don't know if anybody could have predicted whenever we thought that

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