Speaker 1: It's Night's Eyes with Dan Ray on DEBS, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2: We want to tell you what we know as we
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 1: We just got a report and that there's been some
Speaker 1: sort of explosion at the World Trade Center in New
Speaker 1: York City Center.
Speaker 3: You can see the fireman assembled here, the police officers,
Speaker 3: FBI agency, and you can see.
Speaker 4: The two towers.
Speaker 5: A huge explosion now raiding to pray on all of.
Speaker 6: Us got in the wag.
Speaker 1: The actual incident, the actual impact is the site of
Speaker 1: this huge building in golf and.
Speaker 7: Plaine with this massive cavernous hole on the side of it.
Speaker 8: And in one oh eight, we have a report of
Speaker 8: a plane crash somewhere in the area of the Pentagon.
Speaker 8: We're climbing it further.
Speaker 9: I need you to go over to one game in.
Speaker 2: Details are slowly servicing. But what we know at this
Speaker 2: hour is that United Airlines Flight ninety three from Newark,
Speaker 2: New Jersey to San Francisco, California, pressed here the good morning,
Speaker 2: killing everyone on board.
Speaker 7: The far tower suddenly explodes and flame.
Speaker 10: Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and
Speaker 10: punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.
Speaker 4: That was twenty three years ago. Today we're talking to people,
Speaker 4: and we will talk to folks in this hour. We
Speaker 4: will eventually get to last night's debate and your reaction
Speaker 4: to it. This was a longer sound. This was when
Speaker 4: the President spoke to the country. This is cutting number sixty.
Speaker 4: So this is George Bush speaking to the country on
Speaker 4: September eleventh, two thousand and one. It would be about
Speaker 4: this time that night, twenty three years ago, and this
Speaker 4: was George Bush cutt number sixty up.
Speaker 3: Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will
Speaker 3: be open for business.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 3: The search is underway for those who are behind these
Speaker 3: evil acts. I've directed the full resources of our intelligence
Speaker 3: and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to
Speaker 3: bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between
Speaker 3: the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.
Speaker 3: I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who
Speaker 3: have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks and on
Speaker 3: behalf of the American people. I thank the many world
Speaker 3: leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance.
Speaker 3: America and our friends and allies join with all those
Speaker 3: who want peace and security in the world, and we
Speaker 3: stand together to win the war against terrorism. Tonight I
Speaker 3: ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for
Speaker 3: the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose
Speaker 3: sense of safety and secure and he has been threatened.
Speaker 4: So those of you who remember where you were that day,
Speaker 4: where you were that night, we invite you to call.
Speaker 4: My question is why can we not as a nation
Speaker 4: again have that same feeling of solidarity that we had
Speaker 4: that day and for a few weeks after, and then
Speaker 4: it all went away Seas Okay, we're gonna put Peggy
Speaker 4: and hold Rob. She wasn't ready, So we're gonna go
Speaker 4: to Steve in Bridgewater, Steve next on Nightsack, right.
Speaker 7: Ahead, Yeah, Dan, I got a quick, unbelievable story to
Speaker 7: tell your relations to September eleventh, Go ahead. My parents
Speaker 7: used to go down to Florida every year. They had
Speaker 7: this high lived in this high rise condo for the
Speaker 7: winter in Highland Beach, which is right next to her
Speaker 7: to Boca. So my father went to a barber in
Speaker 7: Boca Raton, right next door. Who do you think went
Speaker 7: to that barber shop? Mohammed Ada. My father probably shat
Speaker 7: in the same sheet as he did.
Speaker 4: Did he ever meet him?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 7: He never met him, but the barber recognized him. The
Speaker 7: barber recognized him, so he he was the same barbershop
Speaker 7: my father. You think of all the places he could
Speaker 7: have gone, It wound up the same barber as my
Speaker 7: father in Boca Ratan.
Speaker 4: Well, I believe that these guys lived in the country
Speaker 4: for for a while. Uh. Some lived in California, some
Speaker 4: lived in Florida. It's it's too bad. Well, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to say what what I'm thinking, but I think
Speaker 4: you know what I'm thinking. Wow, amazing, just amazing. He
Speaker 4: was the ringleader, as I understand it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but Dan, who could have known? Who would have known?
Speaker 7: Who would have had?
Speaker 4: I wish your father had had asked the barber. I
Speaker 4: bet he wasn't a big tipper.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 7: I have no idea. But who would know? He's just
Speaker 7: another person getting a haircut.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, that's the problem, that's what that's the problem
Speaker 4: with people. We're in an open country. We allow people
Speaker 4: to committed this country. We're not a police state. I
Speaker 4: don't want us to become a police state, but we
Speaker 4: have people amongst us. We have found out not only
Speaker 4: people who who were born here and grew up here
Speaker 4: who have done some terrible things. And then you also
Speaker 4: have people who come here looking Look look at Major
Speaker 4: Nadal Hassan. The guy that shot there was a member
Speaker 4: of the US military. I killed individuals at a at
Speaker 4: a military post. But about ten years ago, maybe a
Speaker 4: little more twelve years ago in Texas. The people who
Speaker 4: we've welcomed into the country.
Speaker 13: So see.
Speaker 7: And I can tell you another strange one that's unbelievable.
Speaker 7: I used to live in Sharon with my parents house.
Speaker 7: I moved out eight years ago and moved here Ridgewater. Okay,
Speaker 7: who do you think lived down the street from us
Speaker 7: in Norwood that we never knew about a Nazi war criminal.
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, it was in the news.
Speaker 7: It was in the news. You might remember. Yeah, the
Speaker 7: reporters were in front of the house and everything. Here's
Speaker 7: a man that did these horrific things. You killed so
Speaker 7: many Jews in uh Lithuania, and he lived two miles
Speaker 7: down the road from me. I went by out.
Speaker 4: It took a long time to find those guys. They
Speaker 4: they came here and we took them in. A lot
Speaker 4: of them went to places in South America, Steve. It's
Speaker 4: just what it shows is that I think we need
Speaker 4: to be we need to have tighter security when then
Speaker 4: people come into this country, we need to know who
Speaker 4: they are and what their purpose is.
Speaker 7: In my opinion, that's not happening now, Dan.
Speaker 4: That's there's no doubt about that. It's open border time
Speaker 4: in America. Steve. I love your calls, you know that.
Speaker 7: Thank you, my friend, Thank you, Bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 4: Talk to you soon. Let's keep rolling here. We'll get
Speaker 4: everyone in and I promise, if you were nice enough
Speaker 4: to call us, I have to be nice enough to
Speaker 4: accommodate you. Next up, Angelo from Newton, Hello, Angelo, my friend,
Speaker 4: How are you good?
Speaker 9: Dan?
Speaker 11: How you doing this?
Speaker 5: This is gonna be a there's a time that I'll
Speaker 5: never forget that this happened. We were working across the
Speaker 5: street from the Brown Junior High School and we heard
Speaker 5: the kids playing in the playground and the yelling and everything,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, everything just went silent,
Speaker 5: and we didn't know what what happened. And we started
Speaker 5: seeing the school buses coming back to the school, and
Speaker 5: the guy comes running out of the house telling us
Speaker 5: that the twin towers and New York I hit with
Speaker 5: the with the planes.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: And we just and we had a cousin. We had
Speaker 5: a cousin that was walking in there. He walked out
Speaker 5: to go to the store to get something, and he
Speaker 5: and just as he was walking down the street, that happened.
Speaker 4: Well, that that was That was a man who fortune
Speaker 4: smiled upon that day.
Speaker 7: Wow, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing how many times that something like that
Speaker 4: does happen. Someone gets into a bad car accident going
Speaker 4: through an intersection. If they left the house twenty seconds
Speaker 4: later or twenty seconds earlier, they would not have been
Speaker 4: there when the drunk driver rolls through the intersection.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was worried about and she called my cousin
Speaker 5: and she says, my husband just walked out of the building.
Speaker 5: He says, he was going to the store down the
Speaker 5: street to buy something. Just as he was walking down
Speaker 5: the street, that happened. He was shocked. He could not
Speaker 5: believe what he saw.
Speaker 4: Is your cousin still alive today?
Speaker 5: No, he passed.
Speaker 4: Pas Well, he had many more years than he would
Speaker 4: have had if he had been in that building. Because
Speaker 4: that building came down and took a lot of people,
Speaker 4: a lot of people with it, Angelo, Great to hear
Speaker 4: your voice. Always good to hear your voice. Thanks so
Speaker 4: much for checking out YEP.
Speaker 7: One other thing I have to tell you.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember. Do you remember? I
Speaker 5: think it happened one time that there was a car
Speaker 5: popped in there and somebody put a bomb or something
Speaker 5: in it. Something like that happened one back.
Speaker 4: At night in nineteen In nineteen ninety three, terrorists tried
Speaker 4: to blow up the World Trade Center by parking a
Speaker 4: car that had a bomb, and it did not take
Speaker 4: the building down in nineteen ninety three, but they were
Speaker 4: intended down.
Speaker 5: They succeeded in that same time that happened, he walked
Speaker 5: out of the building. Again. Well that's how lucky he was.
Speaker 4: Well maybe that's how lucky. Maybe he has a subconscious
Speaker 4: sense of danger. I can't explain that one. That's more
Speaker 4: than a coincidence. Angela, Thank you much. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 4: I'm on my break, so I gotta I gotta head
Speaker 4: to a company.
Speaker 5: And I talked to you.
Speaker 4: Good to talk about on YouTube? Good night six one, seven, four,
Speaker 4: ten thirty. We'll get everyone in, I promise, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden people want to talk about this. We can
Speaker 4: talk about the debate later tonight, and if we have to,
Speaker 4: we can push it over to tomorrow night back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Right after this, Now back to Dan Ray live from
Speaker 1: the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 4: All right, back to the phones we go. Everybody wants
Speaker 4: to tell us where they were. I like that. Let
Speaker 4: me go to Meredith at South Boston. Hi, Meredith, welcome
Speaker 4: to Nightside.
Speaker 8: How are you, Hidan, I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great? Thanks for calling in if I had
Speaker 4: you on the show before. Is this your first time?
Speaker 8: A couple of times before?
Speaker 4: All right, Well, back as often as you want, oh.
Speaker 8: Son, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was answering more to the question about the debate,
Speaker 8: but I'll definitely answer the question to where I was.
Speaker 8: I love to remember I was. I was actually just
Speaker 8: in a high school of science pass and we had
Speaker 8: heard the news on a TV that was rolled in
Speaker 8: the room. The teachers rolled the TV in the room
Speaker 8: and we had all sat under our desk because we
Speaker 8: thought we heard planes over at that time, and we
Speaker 8: thought like we didn't know what was going on, and
Speaker 8: it was a scary moment. But I really wanted to
Speaker 8: chime in about the debate and mentioned that I don't
Speaker 8: know my opinion necessarily changed after hearing me to me,
Speaker 8: I do know that a lot of the general contendents
Speaker 8: that I've heard from people, and that my opinion that
Speaker 8: i've I am not necessarily a Trump fan, to put
Speaker 8: it lightly, but I will say that based on the
Speaker 8: current issues with the migrants and that situation that's going
Speaker 8: on with our own to trying to take care of
Speaker 8: our own homeless population and our own veterans and our
Speaker 8: own mentally ill and the migrants that are taking over
Speaker 8: our talents with the hotels, and we're having busting issues
Speaker 8: with students, And based on that reason alone, I know
Speaker 8: many friends of mine are choosing to vote for Trump
Speaker 8: and hope that that we we'll get about our solution
Speaker 8: from him. And I will say that Trump is a
Speaker 8: vile creature and Turtle boy is guilty, and I hope
Speaker 8: that he goes to jail, and Trump eventually goes to
Speaker 8: jail as well. Turtle boy is guilty.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan, you got a lot in here tonight,
Speaker 4: ask for sure, Meredith, appreciate your call. Have a great night,
Speaker 4: all right, you had everything there. Let me go to
Speaker 4: Matt and Brighton. Matt, welcome back. How are you sure?
Speaker 2: Hey, Dan, how you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I remember wanted to say two things. I remember
Speaker 2: how old?
Speaker 4: How old were you in two thousand and one?
Speaker 2: I was, it's called around eleven or.
Speaker 4: Twelve, Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So I was sitting in the Rowsree School, Ju Day's school.
Speaker 2: I went to small classes and I remember parents coming
Speaker 2: to pick up their children. And my mother, she happened
Speaker 2: to work for the federal government here in Boston, so
Speaker 2: the JFK buildings, so that was evacuated, and she came
Speaker 2: and you know, got me and you know what you
Speaker 2: understand at that age, it is just minimal. But what
Speaker 2: I wanted to call and just say a strong testimonial
Speaker 2: to for who is a great man. I know the
Speaker 2: family and they're great people. And his name was Daniel Lewin.
Speaker 2: He was the first person who died in nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: He stabbed in the first class and he was trying
Speaker 2: to fight off Atta and some of the other attackers,
Speaker 2: which was confirmed at least through the FAA reports. He
Speaker 2: immigrated from the US to Israel, was part of some
Speaker 2: special forces there, worked very hard. Great family man, good person.
Speaker 2: To develop the software company, and so he was on
Speaker 2: one of the planes.
Speaker 4: So this gentleman was on one of the planes out
Speaker 4: of Boston.
Speaker 2: He was on the first flight out of Boston that
Speaker 2: went into the first tower. Yeah, and he was stabbed.
Speaker 2: He was the one. He was stabbed in the first
Speaker 2: class and they.
Speaker 4: I think, correct me if I'm wrong, But they were
Speaker 4: able to figure that out because one of the flight
Speaker 4: attendants actually was able to make a call and that's
Speaker 4: how they began to realize that some of these planes
Speaker 4: have been taken over. Is that correct.
Speaker 2: On that one? Correct? And there's also some redacted information
Speaker 2: that the FAA and the you know, commission reports did
Speaker 2: that confirmed their finding overall that he was, you know,
Speaker 2: stabbing attempt to stop them, but he was Flight eleven.
Speaker 4: Flight eleven Man. Flight eleven was the first plane to
Speaker 4: leave Logan Airport heading to Los Angeles. That was the
Speaker 4: first plane that smashed into the into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 4: I think it went into I just hadsome milchair because
Speaker 4: it can be a little confusing with the different flights,
Speaker 4: but A eleven went into the North Tower. That crashed
Speaker 4: at about eight forty six am according to a time
Speaker 4: line that I have here. So your friend his name
Speaker 4: was mister Lewin.
Speaker 2: Well I know his you know, I mean they give
Speaker 2: respect to that family, but yes, his you know, he
Speaker 2: was a father and I knew you know some of
Speaker 2: the people that he would have been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard this story before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was a great man. He tried to
Speaker 2: fight on that and defend the plane and he should
Speaker 2: be just as everybody should. Just want to say the
Speaker 2: name daniel Lewin and make god you know, I'm so.
Speaker 4: Glad you called an invocus memory tonight. None of us
Speaker 4: can should ever forget what happened on nine to eleven, and.
Speaker 14: We have to memory.
Speaker 4: He should not hold any biases against you know, people
Speaker 4: you know from that community, who who who took these
Speaker 4: planes down? But we can never forgive or forget what happened,
Speaker 4: and we must have we must make sure that it
Speaker 4: never happens again. Matt has always love you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, daniel Leewin all that job bless Thank you,
Speaker 2: Jank too soon.
Speaker 4: Let me get one more in here at least before
Speaker 4: the break. Let me go to Chris and Bridgewater. Chris,
Speaker 4: you're next on that side. We're recollecting and remembering where
Speaker 4: we were on nine to eleven eleven, two thousand and one.
Speaker 4: Does that mean Chris, That is you Chris from Bridgewater? Right?
Speaker 14: Hey, I got two quick things right back then. I
Speaker 14: was in Texas and I was flying back to Boston
Speaker 14: on Monday morning, right And I went to a steakhouse
Speaker 14: in Texas because they're really good down there, but I
Speaker 14: had takeout, so I was going back to my hotel.
Speaker 14: The lady gave me a steak knife and all I
Speaker 14: had was a carry on bag. And the next morning,
Speaker 14: I put that steak knife in my carry on and
Speaker 14: I got on the plane. That was Monday morning before
Speaker 14: Tuesday of nine to eleven one. That's happened.
Speaker 12: So what that shows is that the security was not
Speaker 12: what it should have been at any airports. And of
Speaker 12: course things have tightened up substantially since then.
Speaker 7: Oh it's a different world, does everybody?
Speaker 14: I said, yeah, So, so Tuesday. So I'm back in
Speaker 14: Boston Monday. I live in Dorchester and I live on
Speaker 14: the third floor of a triple decker, and I have
Speaker 14: a skylight above my kitchen facing like the Northwest. And
Speaker 14: I was up and getting ready to go to work,
Speaker 14: and I just look out my window like like we know,
Speaker 14: it was a beautiful day out and they were running
Speaker 14: out of a runway that would carry all the planes
Speaker 14: right over my skylight in my kitchen, and I swear
Speaker 14: to god, I saw twenty thirty planes within the within
Speaker 14: the hour take off in that same pattern. And I'm
Speaker 14: for sure I've seen those two planes leave Logan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was looking at a schematic. Yeah, they both left.
Speaker 4: And you know, you can find there's there's a great
Speaker 4: timeline that's that's available on you know, one flight, the
Speaker 4: flight eleven, took off at seven fifty nine, just before
Speaker 4: eight o'clock, and the United Airlines Flight one seventy five,
Speaker 4: which crashed into the South tower, took off at eight fifteen.
Speaker 4: So if you were looking out at that time frame,
Speaker 4: they would have they would have you know, eight twenty
Speaker 4: eight thirty something like that. That's when they would have
Speaker 4: been flying by him. You got to give them time.
Speaker 11: For a long story longer.
Speaker 14: I work in Cambridge, and I get on my bike
Speaker 14: to ride to my office and I just cruise down
Speaker 14: mass Ave and I get to my office maybe eight
Speaker 14: forty five, nine ish, and you know, there's only a
Speaker 14: couple of people in the office at this time. And
Speaker 14: you know, I see some people bobbing their heads and
Speaker 14: their cubicles. Something's up. And then we go into the
Speaker 14: media room and we row out a TV to turn
Speaker 14: on the news, and it's ont on me. My brother
Speaker 14: works in Merrill Lynch, and Merrill Lynch had the most
Speaker 14: employees in one of those buildings and they had what else,
Speaker 14: they had the most lease space in one of those towers.
Speaker 14: And you know, I don't even think about it, but
Speaker 14: I'm like, wait a minute, I better call my brother's
Speaker 14: wife and see what's up. And like in nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 14: two thousand and one, my brother didn't go to the
Speaker 14: office that day and he had a meeting off site,
Speaker 14: and I actually spoke to him, but he, you know,
Speaker 14: every he lost a lot of Merrill Lynch colleagues there.
Speaker 4: It's just amazing. It's just amazing how fate works. And
Speaker 4: we talked with Angelo and his cousin was in the
Speaker 4: building and walked out just about the time the first
Speaker 4: plane hit the building. You just never know. Sometimes you're lucky,
Speaker 4: sometimes you're not.
Speaker 14: I had a friend work in the exchange building. He
Speaker 14: walked right by the build building when the second plane hit,
Speaker 14: and we were all nervous for this kid. He wouldn't
Speaker 14: pick up his phone for three four months. We knew nothing.
Speaker 14: We knew he was alive, but he was all devastated too.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 14: Ironically, I took my eighteen year old son to the
Speaker 14: memorial a couple of weeks ago. So it all, it
Speaker 14: all hits home when this day arrives.
Speaker 4: But I think it's important for us for it to
Speaker 4: hit home and for us to remember we should never
Speaker 4: forget Chris. I met my news break at the bottom
Speaker 4: of the hour. Great call. I don't know if I've
Speaker 4: had you on before, but please continue to call this program. Okay,
Speaker 4: you were a great call. You told some very interesting stories.
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7: Good talk, Dan see.
Speaker 4: Good talking to you. Good night. Six one seven two
Speaker 4: five four ten thirty. One line there, one line at
Speaker 4: six one seven nine three ten thirty. We will switch
Speaker 4: at eleven o'clock. Okay. If this sustains till eleven, fine
Speaker 4: either way, we're going to switch, and we're going to
Speaker 4: switch to the Trump the Trump Harris debate last night
Speaker 4: and what impact it might have had upon you. Whatever
Speaker 4: you want to talk about, we will talk about that.
Speaker 4: But I want to continue. I don't want this day
Speaker 4: to pass. I don't want this day to pass without
Speaker 4: everyone who listen at the night side reflecting and remembering
Speaker 4: what it was like on September first, twenty and eleven.
Speaker 4: I can conjure up those feelings. I can sense it,
Speaker 4: and I can believe I can almost put myself back
Speaker 4: in that television news van sitting outside this courthouse in Dedham,
Speaker 4: the school building in Dedham, where voters were walking in
Speaker 4: to vote in that Tuesday primary, and hearing that, well,
Speaker 4: a plane is crashed, a small plane, and then the
Speaker 4: second plane. That point you knew what was going on.
Speaker 4: And I think about the people shot the videotape of
Speaker 4: these big planes, wowing what must have they thought? Back
Speaker 4: on night's side, feel free to join the conversation, and
Speaker 4: we'll be back right after this night Side.
Speaker 1: Dan Ray on w b Boston's news radio.
Speaker 4: Back we go, Let's go to Rick and Bill Rick A. Rick,
Speaker 4: appreciate your call. Where were you on September dam Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: where were you on that faithful day September eleventh, two
Speaker 4: thousand and one.
Speaker 9: I was in Boston. I believe it's Boston. It's Brookline, Brookline,
Speaker 9: and I was Boston across from Lands Down and next
Speaker 9: to Jersey.
Speaker 4: That's Boston, your next to Funway Park. Come on.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, of the many bands that I've been in, this
Speaker 9: was the most special rock band. It was an original
Speaker 9: alternative rock band. And we're recording at a studio called
Speaker 9: Willy Mammoth right where, right across from Lands Essentially it's
Speaker 9: a parking lot now. But we had booked, we had
Speaker 9: recorded the songs for a CD we had we had
Speaker 9: finished in two thousand and two. The first five songs
Speaker 9: were recorded, and we had booked September tenth and eleventh
Speaker 9: to mix them, and we did someone the tenth and
Speaker 9: I remember driving home peacefully right on September tenth and
Speaker 9: and just a beautiful night. And I was by the
Speaker 9: Museum of Science and went home. And I came the
Speaker 9: next day and and David, the producer, an engineer and
Speaker 9: everything said that my guitar player, Julie had called to
Speaker 9: say that a planet hit hit the Trade Center, and
Speaker 9: maybe both at that point. I think I came later,
Speaker 9: more and more like after ten o'clock that morning, but
Speaker 9: and we were and Julie came in and we had
Speaker 9: booked the time, and so we were doing it, and
Speaker 9: in fact, Julie might have been I can't as she
Speaker 9: might have been there. It was just me, Julian, Will
Speaker 9: and David and we we were mixing the rest of
Speaker 9: the of the five songs, and uh, David, as the producer,
Speaker 9: actually said that he had I think his brother, I
Speaker 9: think it was his brother in law said his brother
Speaker 9: in law had a doctor's appointment that morning and he
Speaker 9: was in the trade center that was where his office was,
Speaker 9: and he was very upset when he you know, his
Speaker 9: brother in law was very upset, and David was and
Speaker 9: so we we did the work and uh, it was
Speaker 9: just a.
Speaker 4: Weird The brother in law survived, right, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 9: He did. He was. He was so upset and angry that,
Speaker 9: you know, obviously we were. This day always depresses me,
Speaker 9: but but we got through the there. I remember walking
Speaker 9: outside I might have met went to McDonald's on Jersey Street.
Speaker 9: I think it's gone now, but I think you know
Speaker 9: where it is, across from BC End, and yeah, and
Speaker 9: it was it was a beautiful morning. We finished up
Speaker 9: the work and I think I recall having a couple
Speaker 9: of beers with Will and Julie back when we went
Speaker 9: back to Rosalindale to Will's house. And then at nighttime
Speaker 9: I turned on Boston Radio and I started recording what
Speaker 9: Boston Radio was playing, and I have the tape somewhere
Speaker 9: and one thing, David Alan Bouchet. I recorded some of
Speaker 9: his and Magic one of six and some of the
Speaker 9: songs that he played were very touching. And that's pretty
Speaker 9: much the day.
Speaker 4: So I just I would like to hope that we could,
Speaker 4: at some point as a society, as a country, as
Speaker 4: a nation, come back and have that feeling and understand
Speaker 4: that there are ties that bind us. All of us.
Speaker 4: Probably knew someone who was on one of those planes
Speaker 4: out of Boston. I mean, you're talking about, you know,
Speaker 4: Boston's a big city, but you're still talking about two
Speaker 4: big airplanes. What are the chances that you might know
Speaker 4: someone on one of those planes?
Speaker 9: I did, I did, I did. I knew too. I
Speaker 9: knew one of the pilot or co pilot's father quite well.
Speaker 9: McGinnis and and I and one of my teachers from
Speaker 9: high school was with his wife Mary. His name was
Speaker 9: Jim Trentini.
Speaker 4: And so I was a former Bruins hockey player Ace
Speaker 4: Bailey who played in the Bobby era with the Bruins.
Speaker 4: He was on that plane. He and Mark Davis, who
Speaker 4: had played at PU. They were members of the Los
Speaker 4: Angeles Kings organization and they were they were heading out
Speaker 4: to begin the season. You know, they were scouts or
Speaker 4: front office personnel, and they never could have imagined what
Speaker 4: what fate awaited them that day.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I was just gonna says as a final thought.
Speaker 9: When we finished the CD, I asked Will and Julie,
Speaker 9: I said, can I can I put I need to
Speaker 9: we need to thank everyone. I love thanking everyone. I
Speaker 9: took pictures of the producers and made sure they went
Speaker 9: in the CD. Also because everyone's a part of helping
Speaker 9: out everyone. I think of pictures of them, you know,
Speaker 9: nobody does that they did in the early days, but
Speaker 9: of recording, and so I made sure I put Jim,
Speaker 9: Jim and Mary Trentini on the CD h in memory
Speaker 9: of them, and uh and I felt good about that.
Speaker 9: So so it's a very bittersweet thing. We finished the
Speaker 9: CD and it came out well, and but but that
Speaker 9: was a good memory. So I think of Julian Will
Speaker 9: and I missed them quite a bit. I'll have to
Speaker 9: try to get in touch with them. But that's my rick.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you call, appreciate your reflections. Thank you very much, Joy,
Speaker 4: thank you, thank.
Speaker 9: You for tonight. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 14: Bye Bye.
Speaker 4: Ron is in waymothrowing you next time nights. I get
Speaker 4: you in here before the break, Ron, go right ahead.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I remember that day very clearly. There was a day
Speaker 13: I wasn't supposed to go to work. I was in
Speaker 13: the security force for the O'Neill Federal Building and not station,
Speaker 13: and uh so I was in my bathroom to have
Speaker 13: coffee looking out the window and the birds were flying.
Speaker 13: I mean, it was a clear day, it was like
Speaker 13: But then I said, you know, this is kind of odd.
Speaker 13: This is kind of quiet. There's no cars on the
Speaker 13: street or nothing. All of a sudden the phone rings.
Speaker 13: Who is it the O'Neill Federal Building. They said, we
Speaker 13: got an emergency here. Have you heard? I said, no,
Speaker 13: I don't. I put the TV on.
Speaker 7: But before you.
Speaker 13: Put it on, get ready and get in here. We
Speaker 13: were shot on help but we got skelton cool. This
Speaker 13: is a national emergency. We're under attack, so they said,
Speaker 13: and please do not try to drive into Boston. You'll
Speaker 13: never get here, and we need you so I had
Speaker 13: to be driven to the to the MBTA and the
Speaker 13: Red line, and the Red Line I got on it.
Speaker 13: I got as far as Wallaston, I started going backwards
Speaker 13: on the same track. I said, WHOA, what's going on here?
Speaker 13: There was not many people on the train, and they said,
Speaker 13: we've been ordered to all trains out of Boston, out
Speaker 13: of the hub because they make the MBTA says they
Speaker 13: may they may hit Boston. So they didn't know. So anyways,
Speaker 13: a long stories.
Speaker 4: How did you get How did you get to work?
Speaker 4: If you couldn't drive in and.
Speaker 13: You had to take a train. They told me, only
Speaker 13: take the train. If they give you any problem to train,
Speaker 13: haven't call you Neil Federal Build. They gave me a
Speaker 13: number that and they will. They will take you in
Speaker 13: because you need to get in. We need officers in.
Speaker 4: So going on an MBT, you didn't go in with
Speaker 4: the m BT A you you caught a regular like
Speaker 4: train into South Station or something.
Speaker 14: No, I know.
Speaker 13: They only even though after they let me go, they
Speaker 13: reversed the train again, uh for me to go in
Speaker 13: and let me off a Park Street and they said
Speaker 13: this as far as we go, we're going back to
Speaker 13: We're going back to south. We have to get out.
Speaker 13: So I went upstairs. I went upstairs and they had
Speaker 13: these trolleys, you know, the Park Street, And I said,
Speaker 13: see the door open. There's two other people in there
Speaker 13: were sitting. I've got to sit there. It's not moving.
Speaker 13: All of a sudden, the conductor comes over. He says,
Speaker 13: everybody off. I said, I just study here. I got
Speaker 13: a surgeon. I got to get them. Not stay. He says,
Speaker 13: we know all about the attack, but we're out of service.
Speaker 13: You better be smart, you better get I had my backpack.
Speaker 13: Let me, he said, be to stop running. I had
Speaker 13: to run all the way from UH from where I
Speaker 13: got off UH and all the way all from the
Speaker 13: Park Street and run all the way to North Station.
Speaker 13: And when I got there, it was crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: Well that's about a mile. So you did, you did
Speaker 4: pretty well. You got pretty close to it. I did.
Speaker 13: I was. I was helping the puff and I was, okay.
Speaker 13: It was it was I'll never forget that day. It
Speaker 13: started so peaceful and UH, it just I And then
Speaker 13: the other thing, real quickly is that my my wife,
Speaker 13: UH was very concerned because after she found out UH
Speaker 13: our son was in school and in the n y U.
Speaker 14: But he wasn't.
Speaker 13: He didn't go to school yet. He was in his
Speaker 13: apartment in Manhattan, and she was trying to reach him forever,
Speaker 13: and she was praying he would answer the phone. Answer
Speaker 13: the phone. Finally he answered. He said, why are you
Speaker 13: waking me up? He says. He says, it's good. I
Speaker 13: left my phone on last night. I forgot I crashed late,
Speaker 13: he says. He said, we were under attack. He didn't
Speaker 13: even know where they were under attack, First Avenue in
Speaker 13: New York, and he says, oh no, So it really
Speaker 13: affected him more than us. And the power was going
Speaker 13: in and out, the water was being shut off. It
Speaker 13: was crazy. It's crazy enough.
Speaker 4: I've heard my story. Your cell phone service didn't exist, Ron.
Speaker 4: I'm passing my break. I got to let you go.
Speaker 14: Thank you for letting me tell my story experience.
Speaker 4: Thanks Ron, I appreciate so much. Talk to you. I
Speaker 4: have a great night. All right, let me see if
Speaker 4: I can get one more in here before the break.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a shot. Jackie and Boston
Speaker 4: Jackie next on Nightside, Go right.
Speaker 6: Ahead, Hi, jan Jan, I was wondering if you ever
Speaker 6: heard this. I only heard it mentioned once and never again. Now.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it was the morning of the
Speaker 6: attack or the Jab's war, but all those high jack
Speaker 6: has showed up at the airport, I believe it was.
Speaker 6: And the agents of the person who was, you know,
Speaker 6: letting them go through, was very suspicious of them, all
Speaker 6: these Middle East men with no baggage in one way tickets,
Speaker 6: and he wanted to question them, but he was afraid
Speaker 6: to get in trouble, so he didn't. Ended. Of course,
Speaker 6: what happened happened, and I never heard anything about this again.
Speaker 6: I wondered what happened to him. I would think, no,
Speaker 6: when you let them through and then we were, you know,
Speaker 6: attacked like that somebost because it's suicidal or something like that.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I have not heard that story. I
Speaker 4: do know that one of the things these guys were
Speaker 4: traveling pretty light. They were going from eventually Boston to
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. Muhammadada State and at one of his colleagues
Speaker 4: stayed in Portland, Maine. So they they flew into Boston.
Speaker 4: They did not have to secure I have to clear
Speaker 4: security in Boston because obviously once you got off at
Speaker 4: a certain gate, you just walked. They just walked to
Speaker 4: the gate where they were going to have to go.
Speaker 4: But I've never heard that story. But you know what,
Speaker 4: it certainly would have been possible. And in those days
Speaker 4: of political correctness, maybe he was told to keep his
Speaker 4: mouth shut and not say anything. You just never know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it happened, I believe, at the airport in Maine,
Speaker 6: and he was suspicious because there was so many of them.
Speaker 6: They were only traveling one way, they didn't have any baggage,
Speaker 6: and he wanted to question them.
Speaker 4: Well, in all, over nineteen hijackers, Okay, some of them
Speaker 4: were in washed at Dallas Airport in Washington, some were
Speaker 4: in Newark, some had been here in Boston. So they
Speaker 4: were traveling in small numbers. It wasn't a pack of nineteen.
Speaker 4: They had split it up pretty well. So even in
Speaker 4: the two flights out of Boston, some groups say that
Speaker 4: they were not inn on Social Field Road, and as
Speaker 4: they say, Muhammad Ad and at least one other stayed
Speaker 4: up in Maine. So I don't know, you know what,
Speaker 4: it's possible, Jackie, that someone might have heard that story
Speaker 4: and in the next few minutes they'll call him, they'll
Speaker 4: tell us that they had heard the same story.
Speaker 13: Okay, I never heard anyone.
Speaker 4: Again, a lot of times those stories maybe they're not true,
Speaker 4: or maybe they're true, and someone in the government says,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's just let's just bury that story,
Speaker 4: because look after that, we heard the story from the
Speaker 4: fellow who was down in Texas and who said that
Speaker 4: he was able to fly the day before and cleared
Speaker 4: security even though we had a knife in his baggage.
Speaker 4: That's all changed as a result of nine to eleven,
Speaker 4: no doubt, No thanks Jackie, I appreciate you, Carl, thanks
Speaker 4: so much.
Speaker 14: Holding on.
Speaker 4: Good night. Okay, Sandy, Christine and Dan, I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: you in and they'm gonna wrap it and we're gonna
Speaker 4: go after eleven to your reflections on a more recent event,
Speaker 4: the big presidential debate last night. But as I said, Sandy,
Speaker 4: Christine and Dan will get your stories on nine to eleven,
Speaker 4: two thousand and one and what you recall back on
Speaker 4: night Side after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w BZ News Radio.
Speaker 4: I'm going to try to get everyone in. Let me
Speaker 4: start with Christine in debhim. Christine, do you remember September eleventh,
Speaker 4: two thousand and.
Speaker 5: One, I do.
Speaker 16: I was at work, and I remember my father had
Speaker 16: to come get me because I was in need them
Speaker 16: and I was supposed to take the commuter rail home,
Speaker 16: but they wouldn't. They wouldn't let even the commuter rails out,
Speaker 16: so my father had to come get me. And I
Speaker 16: remember that night too, so aery. After that, after it happened,
Speaker 16: all the the the the the military in the sky
Speaker 16: all night long. The security in the sky was so airy.
Speaker 16: I remember all that. I remember like the music like
Speaker 16: where were you in the world? Stop turn and just
Speaker 16: watching all the films, and it was so aery. It
Speaker 16: just really it was so scary.
Speaker 4: It really was sure if we as a country, we'll
Speaker 4: ever feel the same way. We all were concerned. We
Speaker 4: all felt that we were under attack, whether we lived
Speaker 4: in New York or not, and we felt in danger,
Speaker 4: and we and we all seemed to have one another's back.
Speaker 4: But I think I'm not sure we'll ever have that
Speaker 4: feeling again.
Speaker 16: No, I you know, I think it helped everybody come together,
Speaker 16: you know, as a country, all off the families, we
Speaker 16: all stay together.
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, and I think we all
Speaker 4: understood that the time that we had that Tomorrow's never guaranteed.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like we have today, but you wake
Speaker 4: up tomorrow and you don't know what that day might
Speaker 4: hold in store. And we've lost that sense, a sense
Speaker 4: of community and sense of country. And I hope we
Speaker 4: can get it back. Christine.
Speaker 16: I hope so too. I know I knew two of
Speaker 16: them were West Roshbury, was Jerry Dwatam up bays Alas
Speaker 16: all lives.
Speaker 4: Oh God, I think everyone probably knew someone. Yeah, Christine,
Speaker 4: thank you so much. I got a couple more. Going
Speaker 4: to try to sneak in here before.
Speaker 1: Eleven as always, thank you so much.
Speaker 16: Enough back from vacation.
Speaker 4: I'm back from vacation. Vacations in the review of Thanks Christine,
Speaker 4: talk to you soon, all right, good night, good night
Speaker 4: Dan and Brookline. Dan want to get you and at
Speaker 4: least one more in Dan, go ahead, Hey Dan.
Speaker 11: So, I was living in New York City my wife,
Speaker 11: who was my girlfriend at the time. We both worked downtown.
Speaker 11: I worked a couple of blocks away from the Trade
Speaker 11: Center and my wife worked on Wall Street, which is
Speaker 11: a few blocks further away. We both worked really late
Speaker 11: the night before coincidentally, and we both decided that we
Speaker 11: weren't going to go to work early that morning on
Speaker 11: September eleventh, and I decision, well, yeah, I watched it
Speaker 11: all one told from my roof, and somebody who worked
Speaker 11: for me was killed. And I am lucky that I
Speaker 11: worked late the night before. But what I really wanted
Speaker 11: to call about was, if you remember, the mayor put
Speaker 11: out the request that people go to the funerals of
Speaker 11: the firefighters. Three hundred and forty three firefighters died, and
Speaker 11: I just randomly went to the funeral for Michael Carroll,
Speaker 11: who was thirty nine years old. He had two kids,
Speaker 11: a daughter and a son, and he was on the
Speaker 11: forty fourth floor of the North Tower and he was
Speaker 11: treating burn victims. Was the last anybody heard over the
Speaker 11: radio from him, and you know, he perished when those
Speaker 11: buildings fell, and along with three hundred and forty two
Speaker 11: other firefighters.
Speaker 4: And that was the stuff what coverage those men and
Speaker 4: women had as they climbed up those stairs. They had
Speaker 4: to know that they were walking into a of circumstances
Speaker 4: from which they would not necessarily or.
Speaker 11: Did they even think did they even think that far
Speaker 11: about it? Because that was their job, and they did
Speaker 11: their job, and they knew that their job is dangerous.
Speaker 11: But you know, however, you however you want to say it,
Speaker 11: it's it's amazing and we we should never forget them.
Speaker 11: And and you know, just a quick thing is I
Speaker 11: also with the soccer coach of the marathon bomber. So
Speaker 11: I have this weird tie to two pretty big terrorist attacks.
Speaker 11: And anybody who thinks that this stuff, you know, just
Speaker 11: like isn't still a concern, you really got to think twice.
Speaker 11: We live in a dangerous world. We need leaders that
Speaker 11: will prevent this stuff. And uh, it's real, you know,
Speaker 11: And we should never forget any any of these victims.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Chris Ray, who's ahead of the FBI,
Speaker 4: says that he's never seen so many red flights, red
Speaker 4: lights flash in front of Congress. Dan, I love you,
Speaker 4: calls me and call more often. Okay, thanks then, thanks
Speaker 4: talk soon. Going to get one more in here, one more.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it my best shot. We got
Speaker 4: a couple who will hold over, don't leave. Well, we
Speaker 4: will use you. We will take all of these calls
Speaker 4: on the other side. But let me get Sandy in Hampton,
Speaker 4: New Hampshire. Sandy, I got a couple of names for you.
Speaker 13: Go right ahead, Okay.
Speaker 15: I was in the Tyle River and Hampton called the
Speaker 15: willows with my three year old though soon to be
Speaker 15: three year old, to walk in the marsh or the
Speaker 15: salt Sindos. And when I came back up, my neighbors
Speaker 15: asked if I heard about what happened in New York,
Speaker 15: and I told to no. So I went up to
Speaker 15: her living room and who were watching it on TV?
Speaker 15: And we saw the second airplane hit live on TV.
Speaker 15: Were like, is this the replay? But it was actually live? Yeah,
Speaker 15: And my son was playing with toys and stuff. My
Speaker 15: husband was in Sandy Hook, New Jersey if it was
Speaker 15: a coast good on one of the lighthouses, and he
Speaker 15: saw it all unfold. They wanted him to stay to
Speaker 15: help because they made that area to makeshift more for the.
Speaker 13: People.
Speaker 15: And but but he had to come back because I'm
Speaker 15: a nurse and he needed to watch our kids. Yeah,
Speaker 15: but I didn't find out, oh what happened until he
Speaker 15: got back because I couldn't reach them. I didn't know
Speaker 15: where he was where he stayed that night, and my
Speaker 15: three year old later that day or the next day,
Speaker 15: was playing with his blocks. They made two towers, one
Speaker 15: one with one block lower than the other one, and
Speaker 15: somebody knocked them down and he fell apart, crying and saying,
Speaker 15: don't knock down the towers. After that he never played
Speaker 15: with his blocks again.
Speaker 4: Wow. So it's amazing how much a young child Kenne
Speaker 4: doorb even at that age, he intuitively knew what had happened, and.
Speaker 13: He was maybe just be he understood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm flat up on time, so I gotta
Speaker 4: let you go. But if you haven't called.
Speaker 15: One thing that impressed me the most is the amount
Speaker 15: of American flags that went out on every single overpass,
Speaker 15: all the houses I drove by.
Speaker 5: It was amazing.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see that. I'd like to see that
Speaker 4: display more often.
Speaker 15: Okay, thank you half great week.
Speaker 4: Thank you Sandy, your first time calling.
Speaker 15: Oh no, long time ago.
Speaker 4: Well, call back more frequently. Okay, and I'll give you
Speaker 4: more time next time. But I'm up against the eleven.
Speaker 4: Thanks very much to Betty on the boat Pete, New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: Stay there, I'll take you on the other side. We'll talk.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna turn anybody away tonight we'll be back
Speaker 4: on night side.