Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm WBS in Constance met Radio.
Speaker 3: We want to tell you what we know as we
Speaker 3: know it. We just got a report and that there's
Speaker 3: been some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center
Speaker 3: in New York City Center.
Speaker 4: You can see the fireman assembled here, the police officers
Speaker 4: ATBI Agency, and you can.
Speaker 3: See the two towers. A huge explosion now raiding to
Speaker 3: prey on all of us. We got get out of
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 4: The actual incident, the actual impact is the site of
Speaker 4: this huge building in golf in plane with this massive
Speaker 4: cavernous hole on the side of it.
Speaker 3: And in one eight we have a report of a
Speaker 3: plane crash somewhere in the area of the Pentagon.
Speaker 2: We're trying to get further.
Speaker 5: I need you to roll over to one game in.
Speaker 2: Details are slowly surfacing.
Speaker 3: What we know at this hour is that United Airlines
Speaker 3: Flight ninety three from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, California,
Speaker 3: pressed here this morning, killing everyone on board.
Speaker 1: The far power suddenly explodes in flame.
Speaker 4: Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and
Speaker 4: punish those responsible for these cowardly acts.
Speaker 3: Was twenty three years ago today would have been actually
Speaker 3: probably just about this time, he spoke to the nation.
Speaker 3: We're back here on Live now. This is September eleventh,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty fourth, thank god it's not September eleventh, twenty
Speaker 3: two thousand and one, and I wanted to spend about
Speaker 3: an hour talking about your recollections of this day. Those
Speaker 3: of us who were baby boomers, we heard about Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 3: and we heard about the attack by the Japanese Air
Speaker 3: Force on the US ships in Pearl Harbor. But nine
Speaker 3: to eleven for those of us who are baby boomers,
Speaker 3: people born either during, you know, during World War Two
Speaker 3: or after World War Two, the generation this was our
Speaker 3: nine to eleven was our Pearl Harbor. The attack on
Speaker 3: nine to eleven was actually worse than the attack on
Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor in terms of fatalities. Obviously, one led to
Speaker 3: a war on terrorism, the other led to a World war.
Speaker 3: The war on terrorism has gone on now for over
Speaker 3: twenty years. It's still continuing. It's still going on. So
Speaker 3: what I'd like to do is just for those excuse me,
Speaker 3: I don't know, under the age of twenty five or
Speaker 3: better yet, no, let me see under the age of
Speaker 3: twenty eight or maybe under the age of thirty, you
Speaker 3: have a very faint memory of what happened that day.
Speaker 3: So as time moves on, the American people who stood
Speaker 3: together on nine to eleven, two thousand and one, I
Speaker 3: don't ever remember a time during my lifetime when this
Speaker 3: country was as stood as one they as we did
Speaker 3: on nine to eleven. If you can think of another time,
Speaker 3: I mean I can think of other tragedies in my lifetime,
Speaker 3: certainly the assassinations in the nineteen sixties of President Kennedy, Martin,
Speaker 3: Doctor Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy Junior, which
Speaker 3: appalled people. The Vietnam War was a period of time
Speaker 3: where there was a lot of dissent in the streets,
Speaker 3: and there were people who supported what Lyndon Johnson and
Speaker 3: subsequently Richard Nixon were doing during their term as president,
Speaker 3: and many others who were demonstrating. I remember Kent State
Speaker 3: University when four students were shot dead four days in Ohio.
Speaker 3: But nine to eleven just brought us together. And as
Speaker 3: I looked back and think about that day, I know
Speaker 3: where I was. We were actually outside a voting place
Speaker 3: in Denham. I was working the morning news at the time,
Speaker 3: and it was an election day. On September eleventh, there
Speaker 3: was a Tuesday, beautiful day. I'm sure all of you remember.
Speaker 3: It was the day in which Steve Lynch won the
Speaker 3: Democratic nomination to succeed the late Joe Moakley, the congressman
Speaker 3: from South Boston, who had died earlier that summer. And
Speaker 3: we were sitting in the van and someone said, hey,
Speaker 3: there's a small plane that hit the World Trade Center.
Speaker 3: And you didn't think anything of it. But when you
Speaker 3: heard there was a second plane, everybody knew that this
Speaker 3: is something that is going to change our lives. George
Speaker 3: Bush was the president. He was speaking with student I
Speaker 3: guess first grade students at an elementary school in Florida,
Speaker 3: and he did speak. I remember the video tape of
Speaker 3: Indy Cart, former state representative from Holbrook here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: who had become his chief of staff at the White House.
Speaker 3: And Card approached him and whispered in his ear that
Speaker 3: the World Trade Center had been hit by a second plane.
Speaker 3: And I remember the picture of Bush. You could see
Speaker 3: him just kind of digesting that information in his mind,
Speaker 3: shaking his head. And he didn't want a panic, he
Speaker 3: said later on, he wanted to finish what he was
Speaker 3: doing with these children, and then he did speak. Wasn't live.
Speaker 3: But the first we heard from President Bush was early
Speaker 3: that morning. And Rob, this is cut number fifty one.
Speaker 3: This might stir some memories in people's minds. This is
Speaker 3: President Bush just moments after being told by Andy Card
Speaker 3: that there was a horrific two horrific events in New
Speaker 3: York City which show we were under attacked. For the
Speaker 3: first time, the United States of America was under attack.
Speaker 3: Pearl Harvey, remember was not a It was part of Hawaii.
Speaker 3: But Hawaii was not a state, it was a territory
Speaker 3: at the time of December seventh, Cut fifty one.
Speaker 1: Rub.
Speaker 4: Today, we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed
Speaker 4: into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack
Speaker 4: on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President,
Speaker 4: to the Governor of New York, to the director of
Speaker 4: the FBI, and I have ordered that the full resources
Speaker 4: of the federal government go to help the victims and
Speaker 4: their families and to conduct a full scale investigation to
Speaker 4: hunt down and to find those folks who committed this
Speaker 4: act against our nation.
Speaker 3: Will not stand. There were, of course, today events in
Speaker 3: New York, events in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, events at the Pentagon,
Speaker 3: and there were events at our own Statehouse. Madison Rogers
Speaker 3: filed this report of the names of two hundred and
Speaker 3: six victims from Massachusetts. Two hundred and six of the
Speaker 3: three thousand who died that day, cut number fifty two
Speaker 3: rub at the blueness of the skies, and in the
Speaker 3: warmth of summer, we remember them.
Speaker 6: In the sunlight on the State House steps, two hundred
Speaker 6: and six names were read aloud, each of them carrying
Speaker 6: the weight of the world.
Speaker 4: And John Bread Kahill, my beloved brother, and my beloved son,
Speaker 4: William Christopher Hunt.
Speaker 6: State leaders and families have come together to honor those
Speaker 6: with Massachusetts ties who lost their life lives twenty three
Speaker 6: years ago today and all two thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 6: ninety six victims.
Speaker 4: As long as we live, they too will live, for
Speaker 4: they are now a part of us as we remember.
Speaker 6: Them today and every day at the State House. I'm
Speaker 6: Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: And there are people dying every day. It was twenty
Speaker 3: nine hundred ninety six people who we know of who
Speaker 3: died on September eleventh, two thousand and one, but there
Speaker 3: are firefighters and police officers and citizens of New York
Speaker 3: City who breathed in fumes and god knows what toxins,
Speaker 3: and over the last twenty three years, their lives were
Speaker 3: ended as a consequence of what they endured on September eleventh,
Speaker 3: two thousand and one. And of course, as a country,
Speaker 3: it became it became controversial in terms of the efforts
Speaker 3: that the Bush administration took to go after the terrorists
Speaker 3: and shake Muhammad still sits in Guantanamo. Earlier this summer,
Speaker 3: there was an arrangement made where he could plead guilty,
Speaker 3: accept life in prison, and avoid the death penalty, and
Speaker 3: there was outrage from the families of the nine to
Speaker 3: eleven families, and thank goodness, the Secretary of Defense Defense
Speaker 3: Secretary of Austin overrode that decision and that was taken
Speaker 3: off the table. So what I'd like to ask as
Speaker 3: a question, and I think it's a question that I
Speaker 3: think I know the answer to. Why is it that
Speaker 3: it seems and is it just the passage of time
Speaker 3: that we are forgetting that day? And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: to people under the age of thirty because they can't
Speaker 3: remember that day, But why is it that we people
Speaker 3: in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond do
Speaker 3: not feel the same passion we have US troops, despite
Speaker 3: what Vice President Harris said last night, in the line
Speaker 3: of fire in the Middle East, trying to keep track
Speaker 3: of what isis might be doing as they reorganize the
Speaker 3: war on terrorism might have left the front pages of
Speaker 3: the newspapers. However it continues, and there are young men
Speaker 3: and women, many of whom were not even born on
Speaker 3: nine to eleven, who are now bearing that burden and
Speaker 3: potentially paying the price of what's going on in the
Speaker 3: Middle East. The three soldiers who earlier this year lost
Speaker 3: their lives in an attack from Iran, the Hooti Rebels.
Speaker 3: All of that, Will we ever ever regain our sense
Speaker 3: of identity? Or are we still so fractured as a
Speaker 3: nation that nothing will ever bring us back together. The
Speaker 3: scenes from New York today were lovely, seeing President Biden,
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris, along with former President Trump his running
Speaker 3: mate Senator from Ohio jd Vance, standing there, only separated,
Speaker 3: I think by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Speaker 3: Why how have we lost that feeling as Americans? Of
Speaker 3: what happened that day. It could have been any of us.
Speaker 3: If you've ever flown on an airplane, it could have
Speaker 3: been you. It could have been a family member. I
Speaker 3: want to open up the phone lines and give people
Speaker 3: an opportunity to recall what they were doing, where they were,
Speaker 3: how it affected them. Is it still important? I think
Speaker 3: it is. I think it should be six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty,
Speaker 3: triple eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 3: This is Nightside. We'll talk about the debate beginning at
Speaker 3: ten o'clock. I want to talk about nine to eleven
Speaker 3: because nothing, to me on this day is more important
Speaker 3: than us trying to rekindle the spirit that all of
Speaker 3: us felt that day, the outrage that we felt, the
Speaker 3: cohesion that we felt as a nation, and the concern
Speaker 3: that we had for people of all backgrounds, of every religion,
Speaker 3: including people who died on those plains and in those buildings,
Speaker 3: who were from every ethnic background that you could imagine,
Speaker 3: and every religion. It didn't matter to the terrorist. They
Speaker 3: hated America. They hated everything that we stand for in
Speaker 3: the world, and they were intent on taking US down.
Speaker 3: They did take down the World Trade Center, both buildings
Speaker 3: and a smaller building as well. They took out a
Speaker 3: good part of the Pentagon. It all emanated from Boston.
Speaker 3: Two of the plains went out of Boston, one of
Speaker 3: them came out of Newark, one of them came out
Speaker 3: of Dallas Airport. Join the conversation. I think it's a
Speaker 3: serious topic and it's one that all of us, I
Speaker 3: would hope, can agree upon. Maybe not, Maybe we can
Speaker 3: never come together as we did in the days following
Speaker 3: nine to eleven as a nation. We'll be back on
Speaker 3: nightside after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 7: Night Side Studios on WBZ, the news Radio.
Speaker 3: Well, we have a bunch of callers, which is always
Speaker 3: good because I can tell stories. I can tell you
Speaker 3: where I was two nights before nine to eleven. I
Speaker 3: was at Fenway Park Sunday night baseball, Red Sox Yankees
Speaker 3: Mike Mussina came within one out of a perfect game.
Speaker 3: Carl Everett looped a little single into left field. He
Speaker 3: pitched hit. He was the twenty seventh batter. Up Yousina
Speaker 3: was dealing that night. He looked, I mean he looked
Speaker 3: unhittable that night, and Everett just kind of looped one
Speaker 3: over shortstop and in the scorebook it was a single.
Speaker 3: It was a one hitter from Mike Mussina. And two
Speaker 3: days later, well actually not two days later, excuse me,
Speaker 3: it was nine days later, because we've seen him pitched
Speaker 3: on the second and this was in the eleventh, so
Speaker 3: it was nine days later. Everyone's world changed. Let's go
Speaker 3: to the phone. It's gonna go first off too, Patricia
Speaker 3: in Austin, Hi, Patricia, how are you welcome?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Hello, Dan On a first time caller.
Speaker 3: All right, Patricia, thanks, yes, very much.
Speaker 7: Yes, And I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 7: my uncle Gregory Ash and Georgester.
Speaker 3: Oh I know, greg you're kidding me. Absolutely one of
Speaker 3: my favorite he is not a first I caller. But
Speaker 3: we got to give you a round of applauses. It's
Speaker 3: the solution we have here.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 7: I love that sound. Well anyway, Dan, I was a
Speaker 7: flight attendant for close to thirty years, twenty eight years actually,
Speaker 7: and I happened to be in Scottsdale, Arizona, at my
Speaker 7: home at the time, and my brother Jack called me
Speaker 7: at about oh heck, it was very early in the morning.
Speaker 7: But it was like at nine am here and I
Speaker 7: had just blown in from Mauie the night before, and
Speaker 7: he called me and said, oh my gosh, Patricia, a
Speaker 7: plane just flew into the World Trade Center and it
Speaker 7: was and it woke me up and I was startled,
Speaker 7: and it was it was just terrible. My whole you know,
Speaker 7: a work world anyway changed. That first thing I thought
Speaker 7: of was my brother Dan, who's I b E W.
Speaker 7: Dan Day. He was working at a building called the
Speaker 7: World Trade Center in Boston. That was correct. Now I've
Speaker 7: been living away for like twenty years, and I was like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, is he okay? He said, Danny's fine.
Speaker 7: But a plane just flew into the World Trade Center
Speaker 7: in New York City and it just it just it
Speaker 7: was just devastating as a flight crew member.
Speaker 3: Sure, were you with American Airlines? By that her chancel
Speaker 3: with another airline?
Speaker 7: No, I was with American Trans eir APA. They were
Speaker 7: very popular in Boston, and but of course I was
Speaker 7: flying out of the Western US. But you know, like
Speaker 7: I said, the whole oral changed, and the whole industry changed.
Speaker 3: What I remember, and I bet you you can identify
Speaker 3: with this Patricia. I remember being at Logan Airport the
Speaker 3: next day covering what was going on at Logan Airport,
Speaker 3: and the airport was eerily quiet. There were no passengers,
Speaker 3: there were no flights coming in, there were no flights
Speaker 3: coming out, and you'd step outside and you look up
Speaker 3: at the sky and realize that nothing, nothing was moving.
Speaker 3: What awful a week before they actually allowed commercial flights
Speaker 3: or you know, to get back up in the air.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, because I actually missed one of my scheduled flights.
Speaker 7: But I think I took off again on Sunday after that.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. And I was in Arizona and there's
Speaker 7: a big air Force base nearby, and all I could
Speaker 7: hear and see were a fighter jets flying around.
Speaker 3: It was I don't know, get I forget the name
Speaker 3: of that air Force base, but I have been out
Speaker 3: there and it's a very It's that's not mcdill's in Florida.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 3: Do you recall the name of that base?
Speaker 7: I'm trying to Oh, in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Oh, someone will someone will call and tell us that.
Speaker 7: I'm got to remember in like, you know, fifteen seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a pretty big one. There are a lot of
Speaker 7: Air Force Bass out there in the desert.
Speaker 3: I've vacationed a lot in Arizona, particularly in terms of
Speaker 3: going especially.
Speaker 7: In Arizona now. But I have to tell you, Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 7: my father John Daly had passed away and Christmas of
Speaker 7: nineteen ninety nine, and I said, I just like thank
Speaker 7: God that he didn't see this, He didn't experience it
Speaker 7: because it came from Ireland and he was so happy
Speaker 7: to be and so proud to be an American citizen
Speaker 7: and you know, raise a big family here in Boston,
Speaker 7: and it just would have broken his heart, because I
Speaker 7: think all of our hearts were broken on that day.
Speaker 3: It was incredible to realize what the passages did on
Speaker 3: flight ninety three taking that plane down.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, it still gives me chills just even thinking
Speaker 7: about it now.
Speaker 3: And they knew that they were taking that plane down to.
Speaker 3: It was Lukyapase in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, in like eight yeah, avon Arizona, Oh, which
Speaker 7: is a beautiful state too.
Speaker 1: Hope people go.
Speaker 7: Out and visit the Grand Canyon, you know, it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Well, Look, I appreciate your I appreciate you
Speaker 3: calling in. Please say hi to Gregory Uncle Gregory for me. Uh,
Speaker 3: and I hope you'll become a regular listener and indeed
Speaker 3: a regular caller as well.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm definitely a regular listener, and who knows, I
Speaker 7: may call again.
Speaker 1: Thank you Dan so much.
Speaker 3: You have you retired? Are you no longer flying? Or
Speaker 3: is that career?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 7: No, I'm working in an art museum now for like
Speaker 7: ten years.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well that's okay, Well, a little bit more of
Speaker 3: a normal schedule, I get that, okay. I always admired
Speaker 3: the men and women who not only fly the planes,
Speaker 3: but also the crew of the planes, flight attendants, all
Speaker 3: the stuff that you folks have to put up with
Speaker 3: amongst us.
Speaker 7: Oh, of course, you know, Dan, I've got my eye
Speaker 7: on the sky constantly. Flight Radar twenty four is my
Speaker 7: favorite an app I feel. Oh, I just like to
Speaker 7: see planes flying.
Speaker 1: And yeah, well I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 3: Tri Sure great to make your acquaintance, and we will
Speaker 3: talk again soon. I hope.
Speaker 7: Thanks absolutely, Take care, Jain, great, good night.
Speaker 3: All right, here's the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3: We're a minute or so late, but there were anow
Speaker 3: the first time caller. If you like to join the
Speaker 3: only line open right now with six one, seven, two, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. We just filled too late. We got full lines.
Speaker 3: I'll let you know when that opens up. We're coming
Speaker 3: back on night Side. Feel free to join us talking
Speaker 3: about your memories of nine to eleven, two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: and why as we as why do we as a nation?
Speaker 3: Why have we lost that feeling of unity and camaraderie
Speaker 3: and kinship with our fellow Americans. It's it's gone. I
Speaker 3: don't know what we can do to bring it back back.
Speaker 3: Right after this, you're on night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 3: on Boston's News Radio. Okay, you're going to pick the
Speaker 3: pace up a little bit here, Ron and Newton. Ron,
Speaker 3: you were in Nightside, go right ahead. Where were you
Speaker 3: twenty three years ago today?
Speaker 1: I again, thank you so much for caring this on.
Speaker 1: I was part of the team that was the first
Speaker 1: federal team inside the Krandoff area, and we set up
Speaker 1: five medical aide stations, the first at the Burg Manhattan
Speaker 1: Community College Diagona across the street from Stuyvesant High School,
Speaker 1: then the Amex building, then a blown out Delhi and
Speaker 1: then another free standing tent where we triaged and cared
Speaker 1: for firefighters and all others who are in the Krandoff area.
Speaker 3: For those who who do not know my friend Ron,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to identify him, but he's a member
Speaker 3: of the medical community here in Boston and he is
Speaker 3: on a an absolute emergency alert team where you folks,
Speaker 3: get to whatever airport you got to get to and
Speaker 3: fly to the place that needs help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we have We're out the door in four hours.
Speaker 1: Usually it's faster than that. I get the call at
Speaker 1: eleven thirty, about eleven thirty that morning, was at mass Journal.
Speaker 1: At one in the afternoon, we our team gathered. We
Speaker 1: then went from there to Bedford the A lowered up
Speaker 1: our trucks, and then drove to Fort Stewart Airbase, Newburgh,
Speaker 1: New York, u N. Until about five thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Then went from there to Chelsea Pierre in New York
Speaker 1: City and from there into the Korandov area.
Speaker 3: Tell you just how bad was it to get there?
Speaker 3: You must have got there just about as nightfall came.
Speaker 1: We got Yeah, we got We arrived in the Cordondoff
Speaker 1: area at us All a little after midnight on the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: the twelfth. We were in We were actually in New
Speaker 1: York city. The amazing thing in all that I remember,
Speaker 1: the images are truly as fresh now in my mind
Speaker 1: as they were then. But the amazing thing was that
Speaker 1: as we unloaded our gear and from the rider trucks,
Speaker 1: there were people that we never met before, and we
Speaker 1: formed a human chain transferring our gear and all kinds
Speaker 1: of things from the truck and also from this divers
Speaker 1: in high school. There were metal racks, there were ivy polls,
Speaker 1: there were lots of gods and bandages, and so it
Speaker 1: was a human chain, one of unanimity that I haven't
Speaker 1: seen since then. It was just amazing people we never
Speaker 1: met before. And then we disbanded after we not us,
Speaker 1: but not us as a team, but then the other
Speaker 1: folks that we just were just there at the time.
Speaker 1: So and then we had promised that we would set
Speaker 1: up by seven hundred it's like one thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: and we beat our timeline. We saw our first firefighter
Speaker 1: at six ten in the morning and provided some respiratory time.
Speaker 3: How many days did you guys stay in place down
Speaker 3: there on?
Speaker 1: We left on September twenty third, we demobilized it that
Speaker 1: Moore came back to Boston.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow, Well, I hope that that your health is
Speaker 3: not impacted, because I think we always think about the
Speaker 3: three thousand people who died that day, but there have
Speaker 3: been people dying every day ever since who had been
Speaker 3: exposed to some of the toxins. And I know from
Speaker 3: talking to you previously and privately that that is something
Speaker 3: that everyone has to be concerned about, because you hear
Speaker 3: about all these firefighters who twenty years later or fifteen
Speaker 3: years later pass away from medical complications that are directly
Speaker 3: related to what they were exposed to during that month
Speaker 3: of September two thousand and one, and you were down
Speaker 3: there in the midst of it as well. So thank
Speaker 3: you for your courage, and thank you for your commitment. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: thankfu for the work that you do, my friend.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Dan, We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: You bet your thanks.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Let me go to Alex who is joining us from
Speaker 3: Millis Alex next time nights Ig gordhead Alex.
Speaker 1: Hey, dank Hike grieving. I want to share my memory.
Speaker 1: I was working for UPS and I was fout of
Speaker 1: My route included the Hancock Power which is kind of
Speaker 1: like the financial center so to speak, back then, and
Speaker 1: it was around nine uh nine ten or ninetifteen when
Speaker 1: I you know, was in the getting ready to go
Speaker 1: in the building to do the deliveries to the financial companies,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they said, uh, uh, you
Speaker 1: have to evacuate the building. Uh, you know, they sent
Speaker 1: us out. And also if I uh, back in the eighties,
Speaker 1: this is like ironic. I had visited my cousin in
Speaker 1: New York and they took us up to the towers
Speaker 1: you know how you would go up to the Prudential
Speaker 1: here in Boston.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely. It was a big tourist attraction, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 3: And I still.
Speaker 1: Have the photos. And then, uh, you know, at towards
Speaker 1: towards the past few years, I had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: visit uh you know, Ground zero, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was kind of ironic looking at the pictures before and after.
Speaker 1: And also there's a little Greek chapel there that survived
Speaker 1: the you know explosion, and now they rebuilt that. So
Speaker 1: it's very you know, moving for me every time I
Speaker 1: go there, I just like, you.
Speaker 3: Know, well, you just you know, somehow, some way we
Speaker 3: need to never forget what it was like. We have
Speaker 3: to never forget the people who who lost their lives
Speaker 3: that day. It could have been any one of us
Speaker 3: on those planes. It was interesting that the planes that
Speaker 3: were hijacked, whether they were planes out of Boston or
Speaker 3: Newark or the one out of Dallas, they were all
Speaker 3: headed to the West coast. The Newark flight was headed
Speaker 3: to San Francisco. That was the United ninety three that
Speaker 3: crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The two flights out of Boston
Speaker 3: were American Airline flights, both headed to LA. One was
Speaker 3: Flight eleven, the other was Flight seventy seven. And then
Speaker 3: the one that came out of Dulles was well, excuse
Speaker 3: me strike that. Let's strike that the seventy seven came
Speaker 3: out of Washington Dulles to LA. The other one f
Speaker 3: went out of Boston was the United Airline flight that
Speaker 3: was heading also to LA. So, I mean the hijackers
Speaker 3: knew what they were doing. There's no question they knew
Speaker 3: what they were doing, and they and they wanted to
Speaker 3: be on flights where they could have some time to
Speaker 3: accomplish whatever, well what they were going to try to accomplish.
Speaker 1: Bright real quick, this is interesting. I have some friends.
Speaker 1: They had a liquor store in Brighton, right by the
Speaker 1: where you take the on wrap for the mass Pac
Speaker 1: into Boston, and they told me that the you know,
Speaker 1: the FBI had been in there, the two terrorists had
Speaker 1: gone into their establishment and purchased whatever I don't know,
Speaker 1: and that it was like they couldn't believe it, you know.
Speaker 1: And these two terrorists had were responsible, two of them,
Speaker 1: I guess, or I don't know how many they were.
Speaker 1: They had visited their you know, their well.
Speaker 3: Not only that they had stayed at the Ramada Inn,
Speaker 3: the Remina Inn in Brighton, which was right next to WBZ.
Speaker 3: I drove by there it probably I don't know, for
Speaker 3: a quarter of a quarter of four in the morning,
Speaker 3: because I was reporting earlier that day. They partied there.
Speaker 3: They partied with hookers with a lot of alcohol and
Speaker 3: liquor and drugs, and unfortunately, they caused quite a commotion
Speaker 3: at the Ramata In. It's just too bad that someone
Speaker 3: at that hotel had not alerted police. Now, there were
Speaker 3: others who stayed in Maine. Muhammad Ata stayed in Maine.
Speaker 3: They took a flight down from Portland, Maine. There were
Speaker 3: others who obviously were in Newark and amongst the nineteen,
Speaker 3: they were spread out. But the folks who spent their
Speaker 3: final nights at the Ramada inn. Uh it was party
Speaker 3: central time. So this is the first I've heard of
Speaker 3: them picking up their booze at a at a at
Speaker 3: a liquor store near Brighton. But that works with the
Speaker 3: what I've heard about. You know, their their They're very
Speaker 3: interesting pre weekend activities at the remount of end Alex.
Speaker 3: I'm up up my break, I gotta let you go.
Speaker 3: It is always an interesting call.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, bye, doct you soon.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back, Harriet. We got Eugene and Linda already.
Speaker 3: We're going to get you all in if anyone else
Speaker 3: wants to try to sneak in the only lines that
Speaker 3: are open right now. Six one, seven, ten. Now back
Speaker 3: to Dan Ray live from the Window World night Side
Speaker 3: Studios on WBZ News Radio. All right, let's keep rolling.
Speaker 3: You're going to go next to Gene and Randolph. Gene,
Speaker 3: we got pack lines. I want to try to get
Speaker 3: everyone in. You tell us what your recollection was of
Speaker 3: September eleven, two thousand and one. Hygiene, go right ahead, Hello, Hygiene, Welcome.
Speaker 1: Hi. Hi.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I you mentioned earlier about people not remembering, but
Speaker 8: I see it seems kind of strange, but I think
Speaker 8: about it more than I probably should should sometimes. I
Speaker 8: know it's kind of weird, but I always think that
Speaker 8: some people like you go about your everyday life. Those
Speaker 8: people are on their way to work, saying goodbye to
Speaker 8: their families, you know, just living their everyday life and
Speaker 8: then to go into work that day and never knowing
Speaker 8: what was going to happen. And true, yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: and I don't know why, but every once in a while,
Speaker 8: especially when people are like them complaining about things, that
Speaker 8: always comes into my mind, like I want to say
Speaker 8: to them, like you know, you're really going to complain
Speaker 8: about this or that you know when this could happen
Speaker 8: or that could happen. But I was working at the
Speaker 8: time for a publishing company and we were in a meeting.
Speaker 8: I remember it so clearly. We were in a meeting
Speaker 8: and the boss somebody was trying to call into the
Speaker 8: conference room, and the boss finally told the receptionist when
Speaker 8: I'm not taking any calls, I'm in a meeting right now,
Speaker 8: and she actually, thank god, she came upstairs and opened
Speaker 8: the door. I mean, she was obviously upset. She said,
Speaker 8: you know, plane went into the twist, and we had
Speaker 8: a lot of custom We had a lot of clients
Speaker 8: that were from New York, and my daughter at the
Speaker 8: time was a student at botom and I just wanted
Speaker 8: to run out of there. I mean I just wanted
Speaker 8: to run out, get in my car and you know,
Speaker 8: try to get you know, try to drive down to
Speaker 8: New York. But thank god, talking to other people, I
Speaker 8: you know, calmed down, got home, but I could not
Speaker 8: get through to her at all. I couldn't get through
Speaker 8: to her for quite a few hours.
Speaker 3: Thank God. That look, I had the same experience I am.
Speaker 3: I was basically told that, you know, get ready to
Speaker 3: get to work early tomorrow. But you know, there was
Speaker 3: nothing we were going to do. The story was in
Speaker 3: New York, and I went checked on my kids' schools
Speaker 3: to make sure that nothing had happened to them, just
Speaker 3: to make sure that their schools were in operation and
Speaker 3: everything was everything was fine. So it's.
Speaker 8: I think a lot of I'm not really sure because
Speaker 8: my other daughter was in high school and I remember
Speaker 8: that she got this mister early and she was driving home.
Speaker 8: So I'm trying to get in touch with one in
Speaker 8: New York, one, you know, one on her way home.
Speaker 8: I don't know if the public schools in that because
Speaker 8: she went to a private school at the time high
Speaker 8: school students. But my biggest fear, I think I wanted
Speaker 8: to get to New York. I try to get to
Speaker 8: New York because I remember that day thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 8: what if this isn't all they're going to do?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: So I hear you, but but there's no way you
Speaker 3: were going to get into New York either, because you know,
Speaker 3: Gina got full lines. I got to try to get
Speaker 3: a couple more in Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 3: Is very similar to my own experience.
Speaker 8: That's all I want you to know.
Speaker 1: I'll never have a great night night.
Speaker 3: Let me go to Harriet in Tewksbury, Harriet next on nights.
Speaker 2: I go ahead, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 5: We certainly our family certainly remember this particular day. My
Speaker 5: husband Dreck and my other daughter Rebecca, we were going
Speaker 5: to a marathon out there at black Horse and we
Speaker 5: were actually going to fly out on Tuesday, and my
Speaker 5: daughter Rebecca said, let's go out earlier so we can
Speaker 5: do some things around La and then as a marathon
Speaker 5: was in Basto and then you know, do the marathon.
Speaker 5: So we were there, and about six in the morning,
Speaker 5: I get a call from my other daughter Rob. It
Speaker 5: all upset.
Speaker 3: Did you hear?
Speaker 5: I meant, six in the morning, Leslie, know what you mean? Well,
Speaker 5: his uncle let the Pentagon. Well, my my brother did
Speaker 5: work for Department of Defense, and you did go into
Speaker 5: the Pentagon quite frequently. And I said, I don't know
Speaker 5: what are you talking about, didn't you hear?
Speaker 8: No, we didn't.
Speaker 5: Planes had, you know, going into the Pentagon, and the
Speaker 5: plane had gone in there, and all these other things
Speaker 5: going on, and it was very, very upsetting. And of
Speaker 5: course they then canceled or rescheduled the marathon. They weren't
Speaker 5: going to have it, so we were kind of stuck there.
Speaker 5: Everything was closed. We're walking down where she will shear
Speaker 5: Boulevard and they kept these big signs showing the plane
Speaker 5: going into the TI ways over and over again. I mean, oh,
Speaker 5: it was horrible. Uh people, thank.
Speaker 3: God that you went a day or two earlier.
Speaker 5: And yeah, that's the two of that was Benico. If
Speaker 5: we were stuck there and nothing was flying back. And
Speaker 5: and then the other pod on Tewksbury had two people
Speaker 5: that we're.
Speaker 7: On one of the flights, and I believe one of
Speaker 7: the pilots.
Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, he was from drake It.
Speaker 5: But these were two rights.
Speaker 3: That's okay, I missed. I thought I knew it was
Speaker 3: up in that direction, right, Harry. I want to try
Speaker 3: to sneak one more in here before or before my break,
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm so glad that you you live to
Speaker 3: tell the tale.
Speaker 5: As we would say, Well, I just quickly want to
Speaker 5: say that the daughter of one of the ones that
Speaker 5: died on the plane. For twenty years now we've had
Speaker 5: celebration and rememberance at Trucksbury and we have a monument there.
Speaker 5: She gives a wonderful speech. In fact, tonight she also did,
Speaker 5: so they do remember in Trucksbury.
Speaker 3: Let us never forget. Thank you, Harry, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3: We've got less than a minute left, Linda. You've been
Speaker 3: waiting the longest.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Lindy. We got less than a minute because
Speaker 3: we got the news your recollection. Yep, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was working at the government center at the JFK
Speaker 2: building and the word came out and people got all
Speaker 2: needless to say, all rattled. We couldn't leave until we
Speaker 2: got the clearance with management. And there was one goal.
Speaker 2: She said, I don't care, I'm getting out of here,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. I'm sure she whatever, But we
Speaker 2: we were all afraid because we were in a government building,
Speaker 2: and so we eventually got released out and we had
Speaker 2: to hang around into the courtyard.
Speaker 3: Well, they probably should have cleared you, cleared you sooner
Speaker 3: than later, because you obviously could have been a target
Speaker 3: as well. You just met. You never knew. Lindia got
Speaker 3: it in. Unfortunately I am up against it right now.
Speaker 3: The minute is up. Thank you for calling in that.
Speaker 3: We will talk soon. Okay, thank you so much. All right,
Speaker 3: for those of you on the line, we'll take your
Speaker 3: calls in the other side if you want. We are
Speaker 3: going to talk about the debate, but we'll also take
Speaker 3: you calls on this, so stay there. Here comes the
Speaker 3: news at ten.