The Aftermath of 9/11

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Last fall, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we turned to the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In the aftermath of that fateful day, Joel spent nine months at Ground Zero, capturing images of the recovery effort and first responders—the firefighters, police officers, EMS, construction workers—who put their lives on the line and families on hold to show up for a nation in repair. Today, we revisit our special talk with four people who were there or had loved ones on the ground: Amadeo Pulley, Ivonne Sanchez, Lieutenant John Ryan, and Bianca Quintanilla. Below is a virtual companion to their stories, with corresponding time-codes bolded for clarity.

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0:44.8	missing pages on Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Pushkin. Hey everyone. This is Talk Easy. I'm San Frico, so thank you for being here.
1:11.0	Today marks 21 years since the attacks on 9-11. You may remember that last
1:16.6	September we put together this special around that painful historic day. And I was thinking as we find ourselves toward the end of
1:26.0	summer in this kind of pandemic purgatory, I wanted to replay this episode to
1:32.4	celebrate frontline workers, the ones that have carried us forward since March of 2020,
1:38.8	and the ones that helped a nation in repair after the attacks.
1:44.1	For 10 months, these first responders,
1:46.1	including firefighters, policemen, EMS,
1:49.6	construction workers, the Salvation Army,
1:52.2	all of them. They put their lives on the line and families on hold.
1:57.0	Every morning, rain or shine, they shuttled in and out of Ground Zero
2:01.0	to produce the demolition, excavation, and removal of tens of thousands of debris.
2:08.1	And to help us remember that period, we sat with four people who were actually there in the aftermath of 9-11.
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