WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.200 It's night Side with Dan Ray. 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.519 I'm WBS in Constance met Radio. 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:09.919 We want to tell you what we know as we 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.240 know it. We just got a report and that there's 5 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.679 been some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center 6 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.440 in New York City Center. 7 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.359 You can see the fireman assembled here, the police officers 8 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:22.960 ATBI Agency, and you can. 9 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.879 See the two towers. A huge explosion now raiding to 10 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:28.839 prey on all of us. We got get out of 11 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:29.199 the way. 12 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:34.240 The actual incident, the actual impact is the site of 13 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:38.159 this huge building in golf in plane with this massive 14 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.840 cavernous hole on the side of it. 15 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.479 And in one eight we have a report of a 16 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.240 plane crash somewhere in the area of the Pentagon. 17 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:47.280 We're trying to get further. 18 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:49.640 I need you to roll over to one game in. 19 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:52.560 Details are slowly surfacing. 20 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.079 What we know at this hour is that United Airlines 21 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.880 Flight ninety three from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, California, 22 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.759 pressed here this morning, killing everyone on board. 23 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.560 The far power suddenly explodes in flame. 24 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:13.920 Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and 25 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.040 punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. 26 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:28.159 Was twenty three years ago today would have been actually 27 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.200 probably just about this time, he spoke to the nation. 28 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.719 We're back here on Live now. This is September eleventh, 29 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.079 twenty twenty fourth, thank god it's not September eleventh, twenty 30 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:43.000 two thousand and one, and I wanted to spend about 31 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:49.159 an hour talking about your recollections of this day. Those 32 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.480 of us who were baby boomers, we heard about Pearl Harbor, 33 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.840 and we heard about the attack by the Japanese Air 34 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:03.280 Force on the US ships in Pearl Harbor. But nine 35 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.120 to eleven for those of us who are baby boomers, 36 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:11.199 people born either during, you know, during World War Two 37 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.240 or after World War Two, the generation this was our 38 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:21.759 nine to eleven was our Pearl Harbor. The attack on 39 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.039 nine to eleven was actually worse than the attack on 40 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.240 Pearl Harbor in terms of fatalities. Obviously, one led to 41 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.360 a war on terrorism, the other led to a World war. 42 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.319 The war on terrorism has gone on now for over 43 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.400 twenty years. It's still continuing. It's still going on. So 44 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.120 what I'd like to do is just for those excuse me, 45 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:54.719 I don't know, under the age of twenty five or 46 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.680 better yet, no, let me see under the age of 47 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.840 twenty eight or maybe under the age of thirty, you 48 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.240 have a very faint memory of what happened that day. 49 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:10.479 So as time moves on, the American people who stood 50 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.400 together on nine to eleven, two thousand and one, I 51 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:20.199 don't ever remember a time during my lifetime when this 52 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:25.120 country was as stood as one they as we did 53 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.639 on nine to eleven. If you can think of another time, 54 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.120 I mean I can think of other tragedies in my lifetime, 55 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:35.680 certainly the assassinations in the nineteen sixties of President Kennedy, Martin, 56 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.840 Doctor Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy Junior, which 57 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.240 appalled people. The Vietnam War was a period of time 58 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:45.479 where there was a lot of dissent in the streets, 59 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:50.439 and there were people who supported what Lyndon Johnson and 60 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.800 subsequently Richard Nixon were doing during their term as president, 61 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.639 and many others who were demonstrating. I remember Kent State 62 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.639 University when four students were shot dead four days in Ohio. 63 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.400 But nine to eleven just brought us together. And as 64 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:10.599 I looked back and think about that day, I know 65 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:18.319 where I was. We were actually outside a voting place 66 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.759 in Denham. I was working the morning news at the time, 67 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:25.959 and it was an election day. On September eleventh, there 68 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.600 was a Tuesday, beautiful day. I'm sure all of you remember. 69 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.959 It was the day in which Steve Lynch won the 70 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:37.480 Democratic nomination to succeed the late Joe Moakley, the congressman 71 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:43.040 from South Boston, who had died earlier that summer. And 72 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:45.519 we were sitting in the van and someone said, hey, 73 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.079 there's a small plane that hit the World Trade Center. 74 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.680 And you didn't think anything of it. But when you 75 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.920 heard there was a second plane, everybody knew that this 76 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.560 is something that is going to change our lives. George 77 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.759 Bush was the president. He was speaking with student I 78 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.360 guess first grade students at an elementary school in Florida, 79 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:10.079 and he did speak. I remember the video tape of 80 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.360 Indy Cart, former state representative from Holbrook here in Massachusetts, 81 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.040 who had become his chief of staff at the White House. 82 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:22.160 And Card approached him and whispered in his ear that 83 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:24.959 the World Trade Center had been hit by a second plane. 84 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.480 And I remember the picture of Bush. You could see 85 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:32.759 him just kind of digesting that information in his mind, 86 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.399 shaking his head. And he didn't want a panic, he 87 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:37.959 said later on, he wanted to finish what he was 88 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:44.040 doing with these children, and then he did speak. Wasn't live. 89 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.079 But the first we heard from President Bush was early 90 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.160 that morning. And Rob, this is cut number fifty one. 91 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:52.879 This might stir some memories in people's minds. This is 92 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.439 President Bush just moments after being told by Andy Card 93 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.279 that there was a horrific two horrific events in New 94 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.600 York City which show we were under attacked. For the 95 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.079 first time, the United States of America was under attack. 96 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.279 Pearl Harvey, remember was not a It was part of Hawaii. 97 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.560 But Hawaii was not a state, it was a territory 98 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.720 at the time of December seventh, Cut fifty one. 99 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:19.040 Rub. 100 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:26.519 Today, we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed 101 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:31.120 into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack 102 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.720 on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President, 103 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.439 to the Governor of New York, to the director of 104 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.360 the FBI, and I have ordered that the full resources 105 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.759 of the federal government go to help the victims and 106 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:53.399 their families and to conduct a full scale investigation to 107 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.040 hunt down and to find those folks who committed this 108 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.519 act against our nation. 109 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.360 Will not stand. There were, of course, today events in 110 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:13.439 New York, events in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, events at the Pentagon, 111 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:19.439 and there were events at our own Statehouse. Madison Rogers 112 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.920 filed this report of the names of two hundred and 113 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:29.199 six victims from Massachusetts. Two hundred and six of the 114 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.439 three thousand who died that day, cut number fifty two 115 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:37.040 rub at the blueness of the skies, and in the 116 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.839 warmth of summer, we remember them. 117 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.680 In the sunlight on the State House steps, two hundred 118 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.240 and six names were read aloud, each of them carrying 119 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:46.240 the weight of the world. 120 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:51.800 And John Bread Kahill, my beloved brother, and my beloved son, 121 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.680 William Christopher Hunt. 122 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.000 State leaders and families have come together to honor those 123 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.000 with Massachusetts ties who lost their life lives twenty three 124 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.279 years ago today and all two thousand, nine hundred and 125 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.480 ninety six victims. 126 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.519 As long as we live, they too will live, for 127 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.439 they are now a part of us as we remember. 128 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:19.959 Them today and every day at the State House. I'm 129 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.319 Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio. 130 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.519 And there are people dying every day. It was twenty 131 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:31.360 nine hundred ninety six people who we know of who 132 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.600 died on September eleventh, two thousand and one, but there 133 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.559 are firefighters and police officers and citizens of New York 134 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:44.080 City who breathed in fumes and god knows what toxins, 135 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.799 and over the last twenty three years, their lives were 136 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.799 ended as a consequence of what they endured on September eleventh, 137 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.879 two thousand and one. And of course, as a country, 138 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:04.519 it became it became controversial in terms of the efforts 139 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.759 that the Bush administration took to go after the terrorists 140 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:17.600 and shake Muhammad still sits in Guantanamo. Earlier this summer, 141 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.320 there was an arrangement made where he could plead guilty, 142 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.639 accept life in prison, and avoid the death penalty, and 143 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.559 there was outrage from the families of the nine to 144 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:34.639 eleven families, and thank goodness, the Secretary of Defense Defense 145 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:38.480 Secretary of Austin overrode that decision and that was taken 146 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:42.080 off the table. So what I'd like to ask as 147 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:45.639 a question, and I think it's a question that I 148 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:50.039 think I know the answer to. Why is it that 149 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.720 it seems and is it just the passage of time 150 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:57.879 that we are forgetting that day? And I'm not talking 151 00:09:57.919 --> 00:09:59.879 to people under the age of thirty because they can't 152 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.960 remember that day, But why is it that we people 153 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:09.559 in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond do 154 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.519 not feel the same passion we have US troops, despite 155 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.919 what Vice President Harris said last night, in the line 156 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.519 of fire in the Middle East, trying to keep track 157 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.720 of what isis might be doing as they reorganize the 158 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.840 war on terrorism might have left the front pages of 159 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:33.759 the newspapers. However it continues, and there are young men 160 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.679 and women, many of whom were not even born on 161 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.480 nine to eleven, who are now bearing that burden and 162 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:46.240 potentially paying the price of what's going on in the 163 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.960 Middle East. The three soldiers who earlier this year lost 164 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.799 their lives in an attack from Iran, the Hooti Rebels. 165 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:58.679 All of that, Will we ever ever regain our sense 166 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.679 of identity? Or are we still so fractured as a 167 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.600 nation that nothing will ever bring us back together. The 168 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.000 scenes from New York today were lovely, seeing President Biden, 169 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:18.480 Vice President Harris, along with former President Trump his running 170 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:23.200 mate Senator from Ohio jd Vance, standing there, only separated, 171 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.080 I think by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 172 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.399 Why how have we lost that feeling as Americans? Of 173 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:34.919 what happened that day. It could have been any of us. 174 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.240 If you've ever flown on an airplane, it could have 175 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.799 been you. It could have been a family member. I 176 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:42.960 want to open up the phone lines and give people 177 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.159 an opportunity to recall what they were doing, where they were, 178 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.840 how it affected them. Is it still important? I think 179 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.600 it is. I think it should be six one, seven, two, five, 180 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.679 four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty, 181 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.639 triple eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. My name's Dan Ray. 182 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.639 This is Nightside. We'll talk about the debate beginning at 183 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:04.759 ten o'clock. I want to talk about nine to eleven 184 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.799 because nothing, to me on this day is more important 185 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.120 than us trying to rekindle the spirit that all of 186 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.360 us felt that day, the outrage that we felt, the 187 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:20.200 cohesion that we felt as a nation, and the concern 188 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.080 that we had for people of all backgrounds, of every religion, 189 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.960 including people who died on those plains and in those buildings, 190 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:33.039 who were from every ethnic background that you could imagine, 191 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.120 and every religion. It didn't matter to the terrorist. They 192 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.679 hated America. They hated everything that we stand for in 193 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.480 the world, and they were intent on taking US down. 194 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.559 They did take down the World Trade Center, both buildings 195 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.360 and a smaller building as well. They took out a 196 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:54.840 good part of the Pentagon. It all emanated from Boston. 197 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:57.440 Two of the plains went out of Boston, one of 198 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.840 them came out of Newark, one of them came out 199 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:03.159 of Dallas Airport. Join the conversation. I think it's a 200 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.399 serious topic and it's one that all of us, I 201 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.799 would hope, can agree upon. Maybe not, Maybe we can 202 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:12.879 never come together as we did in the days following 203 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:14.919 nine to eleven as a nation. We'll be back on 204 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:15.679 nightside after this. 205 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.279 Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World. 206 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.240 Night Side Studios on WBZ, the news Radio. 207 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.240 Well, we have a bunch of callers, which is always 208 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.759 good because I can tell stories. I can tell you 209 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:32.960 where I was two nights before nine to eleven. I 210 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.919 was at Fenway Park Sunday night baseball, Red Sox Yankees 211 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.000 Mike Mussina came within one out of a perfect game. 212 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.279 Carl Everett looped a little single into left field. He 213 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:48.120 pitched hit. He was the twenty seventh batter. Up Yousina 214 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.320 was dealing that night. He looked, I mean he looked 215 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.279 unhittable that night, and Everett just kind of looped one 216 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:59.720 over shortstop and in the scorebook it was a single. 217 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.360 It was a one hitter from Mike Mussina. And two 218 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.559 days later, well actually not two days later, excuse me, 219 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.679 it was nine days later, because we've seen him pitched 220 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.399 on the second and this was in the eleventh, so 221 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.600 it was nine days later. Everyone's world changed. Let's go 222 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.639 to the phone. It's gonna go first off too, Patricia 223 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.679 in Austin, Hi, Patricia, how are you welcome? 224 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:22.080 Oh? 225 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:25.240 Hello, Dan On a first time caller. 226 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.320 All right, Patricia, thanks, yes, very much. 227 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:32.639 Yes, And I want to give a shout out to 228 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.159 my uncle Gregory Ash and Georgester. 229 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.960 Oh I know, greg you're kidding me. Absolutely one of 230 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.200 my favorite he is not a first I caller. But 231 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:46.559 we got to give you a round of applauses. It's 232 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:47.799 the solution we have here. 233 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.480 Okay, thank you. 234 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:53.720 I love that sound. Well anyway, Dan, I was a 235 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.960 flight attendant for close to thirty years, twenty eight years actually, 236 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:06.279 and I happened to be in Scottsdale, Arizona, at my 237 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.159 home at the time, and my brother Jack called me 238 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.519 at about oh heck, it was very early in the morning. 239 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.440 But it was like at nine am here and I 240 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.559 had just blown in from Mauie the night before, and 241 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:27.320 he called me and said, oh my gosh, Patricia, a 242 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.240 plane just flew into the World Trade Center and it 243 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.399 was and it woke me up and I was startled, 244 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:38.279 and it was it was just terrible. My whole you know, 245 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:44.759 a work world anyway changed. That first thing I thought 246 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:49.000 of was my brother Dan, who's I b E W. 247 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:53.519 Dan Day. He was working at a building called the 248 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:57.320 World Trade Center in Boston. That was correct. Now I've 249 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.200 been living away for like twenty years, and I was like, 250 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.759 oh my god, is he okay? He said, Danny's fine. 251 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:06.519 But a plane just flew into the World Trade Center 252 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.519 in New York City and it just it just it 253 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.240 was just devastating as a flight crew member. 254 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.639 Sure, were you with American Airlines? By that her chancel 255 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:17.559 with another airline? 256 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.720 No, I was with American Trans eir APA. They were 257 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:27.039 very popular in Boston, and but of course I was 258 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:31.879 flying out of the Western US. But you know, like 259 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:36.519 I said, the whole oral changed, and the whole industry changed. 260 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.919 What I remember, and I bet you you can identify 261 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.440 with this Patricia. I remember being at Logan Airport the 262 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.519 next day covering what was going on at Logan Airport, 263 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.600 and the airport was eerily quiet. There were no passengers, 264 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:53.919 there were no flights coming in, there were no flights 265 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.200 coming out, and you'd step outside and you look up 266 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.759 at the sky and realize that nothing, nothing was moving. 267 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.519 What awful a week before they actually allowed commercial flights 268 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.119 or you know, to get back up in the air. 269 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:07.279 Oh. 270 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:12.000 Absolutely, because I actually missed one of my scheduled flights. 271 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:16.079 But I think I took off again on Sunday after that. 272 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.680 Oh my gosh. And I was in Arizona and there's 273 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.000 a big air Force base nearby, and all I could 274 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.440 hear and see were a fighter jets flying around. 275 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:32.440 It was I don't know, get I forget the name 276 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.160 of that air Force base, but I have been out 277 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:37.079 there and it's a very It's that's not mcdill's in Florida. 278 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:37.440 What is that? 279 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:39.079 Do you recall the name of that base? 280 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:41.680 I'm trying to Oh, in Arizona. 281 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:46.160 Oh, someone will someone will call and tell us that. 282 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:50.240 I'm got to remember in like, you know, fifteen seconds. Yeah, 283 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.279 it's a pretty big one. There are a lot of 284 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.119 Air Force Bass out there in the desert. 285 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.400 I've vacationed a lot in Arizona, particularly in terms of 286 00:17:58.519 --> 00:17:59.640 going especially. 287 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.680 In Arizona now. But I have to tell you, Yeah, Dan, 288 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:08.920 my father John Daly had passed away and Christmas of 289 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:13.079 nineteen ninety nine, and I said, I just like thank 290 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:17.200 God that he didn't see this, He didn't experience it 291 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.559 because it came from Ireland and he was so happy 292 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.319 to be and so proud to be an American citizen 293 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.799 and you know, raise a big family here in Boston, 294 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.200 and it just would have broken his heart, because I 295 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.480 think all of our hearts were broken on that day. 296 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:37.000 It was incredible to realize what the passages did on 297 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.279 flight ninety three taking that plane down. 298 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.759 Oh yes, it still gives me chills just even thinking 299 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.319 about it now. 300 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.160 And they knew that they were taking that plane down to. 301 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.279 It was Lukyapase in Glendale, Arizona. 302 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:58.200 Yeah, yeah, in like eight yeah, avon Arizona, Oh, which 303 00:18:58.279 --> 00:18:59.680 is a beautiful state too. 304 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:00.920 Hope people go. 305 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.480 Out and visit the Grand Canyon, you know, it's. 306 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.319 Yeah, absolutely, Well, Look, I appreciate your I appreciate you 307 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.880 calling in. Please say hi to Gregory Uncle Gregory for me. Uh, 308 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.880 and I hope you'll become a regular listener and indeed 309 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:16.119 a regular caller as well. 310 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:20.440 Well, I'm definitely a regular listener, and who knows, I 311 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:21.200 may call again. 312 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.440 Thank you Dan so much. 313 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.519 You have you retired? Are you no longer flying? Or 314 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.240 is that career? 315 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:27.559 No? 316 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.319 No, I'm working in an art museum now for like 317 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:31.079 ten years. 318 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.920 Okay, Well that's okay, Well, a little bit more of 319 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:39.960 a normal schedule, I get that, okay. I always admired 320 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.359 the men and women who not only fly the planes, 321 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:47.359 but also the crew of the planes, flight attendants, all 322 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.960 the stuff that you folks have to put up with 323 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:50.839 amongst us. 324 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:54.000 Oh, of course, you know, Dan, I've got my eye 325 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:59.440 on the sky constantly. Flight Radar twenty four is my 326 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:04.119 favorite an app I feel. Oh, I just like to 327 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:05.119 see planes flying. 328 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.599 And yeah, well I hear you, I hear you. 329 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.400 Tri Sure great to make your acquaintance, and we will 330 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.799 talk again soon. I hope. 331 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:16.160 Thanks absolutely, Take care, Jain, great, good night. 332 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:19.640 All right, here's the news at the bottom of the hour. 333 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:21.440 We're a minute or so late, but there were anow 334 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.000 the first time caller. If you like to join the 335 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:25.799 only line open right now with six one, seven, two, four, 336 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.759 ten thirty. We just filled too late. We got full lines. 337 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.519 I'll let you know when that opens up. We're coming 338 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:33.279 back on night Side. Feel free to join us talking 339 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.839 about your memories of nine to eleven, two thousand and one, 340 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:39.839 and why as we as why do we as a nation? 341 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.119 Why have we lost that feeling of unity and camaraderie 342 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:47.359 and kinship with our fellow Americans. It's it's gone. I 343 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:48.960 don't know what we can do to bring it back back. 344 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.759 Right after this, you're on night Side with Dan Ray 345 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.680 on Boston's News Radio. Okay, you're going to pick the 346 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.640 pace up a little bit here, Ron and Newton. Ron, 347 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:01.759 you were in Nightside, go right ahead. Where were you 348 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.160 twenty three years ago today? 349 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:09.039 I again, thank you so much for caring this on. 350 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.200 I was part of the team that was the first 351 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:16.839 federal team inside the Krandoff area, and we set up 352 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:21.599 five medical aide stations, the first at the Burg Manhattan 353 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:26.240 Community College Diagona across the street from Stuyvesant High School, 354 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.359 then the Amex building, then a blown out Delhi and 355 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:35.119 then another free standing tent where we triaged and cared 356 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:40.319 for firefighters and all others who are in the Krandoff area. 357 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.240 For those who who do not know my friend Ron, 358 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:45.119 I'm not going to identify him, but he's a member 359 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.640 of the medical community here in Boston and he is 360 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:55.079 on a an absolute emergency alert team where you folks, 361 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:57.240 get to whatever airport you got to get to and 362 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:58.920 fly to the place that needs help. 363 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:05.759 Yeah, we we have We're out the door in four hours. 364 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:09.079 Usually it's faster than that. I get the call at 365 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:14.680 eleven thirty, about eleven thirty that morning, was at mass Journal. 366 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:20.640 At one in the afternoon, we our team gathered. We 367 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:25.680 then went from there to Bedford the A lowered up 368 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:30.160 our trucks, and then drove to Fort Stewart Airbase, Newburgh, 369 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:35.039 New York, u N. Until about five thirty in the morning. 370 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:39.559 Then went from there to Chelsea Pierre in New York 371 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:41.480 City and from there into the Korandov area. 372 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:47.000 Tell you just how bad was it to get there? 373 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:50.079 You must have got there just about as nightfall came. 374 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.240 We got Yeah, we got We arrived in the Cordondoff 375 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:04.599 area at us All a little after midnight on the thirteenth, 376 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:08.359 the twelfth. We were in We were actually in New 377 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:13.599 York city. The amazing thing in all that I remember, 378 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:17.799 the images are truly as fresh now in my mind 379 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:22.000 as they were then. But the amazing thing was that 380 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:28.039 as we unloaded our gear and from the rider trucks, 381 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.160 there were people that we never met before, and we 382 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:38.799 formed a human chain transferring our gear and all kinds 383 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:42.400 of things from the truck and also from this divers 384 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:48.359 in high school. There were metal racks, there were ivy polls, 385 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:55.480 there were lots of gods and bandages, and so it 386 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.839 was a human chain, one of unanimity that I haven't 387 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.720 seen since then. It was just amazing people we never 388 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.359 met before. And then we disbanded after we not us, 389 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:13.480 but not us as a team, but then the other 390 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:16.960 folks that we just were just there at the time. 391 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.200 So and then we had promised that we would set 392 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:26.319 up by seven hundred it's like one thirty in the morning, 393 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:34.119 and we beat our timeline. We saw our first firefighter 394 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.440 at six ten in the morning and provided some respiratory time. 395 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:39.680 How many days did you guys stay in place down 396 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:40.039 there on? 397 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:46.559 We left on September twenty third, we demobilized it that 398 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:47.880 Moore came back to Boston. 399 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:54.480 Wow, wow, Well, I hope that that your health is 400 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:57.160 not impacted, because I think we always think about the 401 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:01.079