Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 1.

Hello, America.

How are you?

It's Eric Erickson here.

The phone number 877-9-73-7-4-25. I hope you had a great weekend. We must begin with the weekend because we try to

remark and memorialize it. I don't know. How long this will happen. And I bring this up each year

when we arrive at this moment.

You know, the British still hold a ceremony every remembrance day on the 11th of November.

They wear their poppies for those who died in World War I now more than 100 years ago.

I don't know how long it will be before the desire to memorialize September 11, 2001

recedes. But that desire is not there yet. And to some degree, I hope it never fades, given the

significance of it. We have to talk about that. We should begin with a part of the address of the

President of the United States

yesterday. And please do listen here because there is a point that has to be made after this.

I remember a message sent to the American people from Queen Elizabeth. It was on September 11.

Her ambassador read a prayer of service at St. Thomas Church in New York, where she pointedly reminded us, quote, grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief is the price we pay for love. Many have experienced that grief, and you've

all experienced it. And on this day, when the price feels so great, Jill and I are holding all of

you close to our hearts. Terror struck us in that brilliant blue morning.

The air filled with smoke, and then came the sirens and the stories.

Stories of those we lost, stories of incredible heroism from that terrible day.

The American story, the American story itself changed that day.

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