April 28, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode, Tudor reflects on a recent school trip to Washington, DC with her daughter's eighth grade class, sharing the profound lessons learned about history, failures, and growth. Through visits to significant memorials and sites, the students explored the impact of historical events, including the 9/11 attacks and the civil rights movement, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging past mistakes to foster growth and understanding in the future. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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00:00 Inspiring Lessons from a School Trip to DC
05:56 Learning from Historical Failures
11:46 The Impact of 9/11 and Patriotism
17:55 Understanding Civil Rights and Martin Luther King Jr.
22:30 Embracing Growth Through Failure
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, I just got
back from a five day trip to Washington, d C.
With around thirty eighth graders, And I know that sounds
like insane and it was totally exhausting, but it was
actually incredibly inspiring because we got to see our history
through the eyes of teenagers and it was really pretty special.
(00:22):
If you haven't taken your kids to our nation's capital,
I really am suggesting it. It is a must do.
I think one of the biggest lessons we learned is
that sometimes life can change in the blink of an eye.
And sometimes it's because of any evil act, but sometimes
it's because of a lack of precaution, and sometimes it's both.
(00:42):
And our kids I was watching them as they went
from memorial to memorial, from museum to museum, and they
were learning that those changes in life can leave a
lasting impact. It can be the loss of a loved
one or the implementation implementation of new policies. But whatever
happens in this country, we're not ashamed. There are things
(01:04):
that have happened in this country that we have learned
from that we continued to highlight because things that should
have caused shame in the moment, and did we have overcome,
We have learned from and we were able to teach
our kids that even our most horrific failures we can change,
we can grow from, just like we can all change
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and grow. So we actually got to we actually got
to see that we keep in this country, we keep
our failures on display, we keep them as reminders that
we've learned hard lessons and that we continue to strive
towards excellence. Before I begin, I want to say a
big thank you to Speaker Johnson and Speaker Johnson's office
for taking our students on an extensive tour of the
(01:48):
Capitol building. And that was kind of like one of
the first things that really showed us that we can
learn hard lessons from terrible situations. Because we were sitting
on the House floor and we were hearing all these
historical stories about the US House and that was incredible.
But while we're there, they started to point out one
of those failures at a time when our congressmen were
(02:09):
in danger because of a lack of security protocols. It
was March first, nineteen fifty four, gunfire erupted on the
House floor. They had been in discussions about making Puerto
Rico the forty or the fifty first state. The US
had annexed Puerto Rico in eighteen ninety eight, and the
relationship between the island and the US government had had
(02:31):
some contention around it for quite some time. Some of
those folks in Puerto Rico wanted statehood, while others were
vehemently opposed. So we're sitting there, we're listening to this.
We learned that there were one on this day, that
on this March first, four of those who were opposed
to Puerto Rico becoming a state launched a surprise attack
(02:53):
on the House floor against our congressman. They were up
in the speakers in the spectator's gallery up there, and
they started shouting at the congressman below, Viva Puerto Rico,
Libre long, Live, Free Puerto Rico. They rained twenty bullets
onto the house floor. Now we're down there learning about this,
and we're seeing where those bullet holes are. I mean,
(03:15):
I think that's the coolest part. You've got these eighth
graders and they're hearing like you're on the house floor.
Look up in the gallery, you see there's four people up.
There's one woman and three men. They shot one bullet
into the ceiling. It's like a firing a warning shot,
and then they just started shooting down into the gallery.
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So the bullet hole and the ceiling is still there.
The kids are looking up and seeing in nineteen fifty four,
there was a bullet shot into the ceiling and we
left it there as a reminder that this can happen.
At that time, when they started shooting downward, they shot
five of our US representatives. Representative who was most severely
(03:58):
injured was named Alvin Binn, and he was wounded. He
had a bullet wound to the chest. Now, four other
representatives were also shot that day. Ben Jensen shot in
the back, Clifford Davis was shot in the leg, George
Hyde Fallon was shot in the hip, and Kenneth Roberts
was shot in the knee. So the congressional pages, I mean,
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think about this, the pages are like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
years old. They carried the wounded men all out of
there to safety, which I think is also incredibly impactful
to kids who are thirteen and fourteen years old, thinking
I could be sitting in here in just a few years,
see this happen and carry someone out to safety. All
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of those representatives survived that attack. These kids got to
learn that in this chamber, this horrific thing happened. Young
people saved these men, they carried them out, and all
of these men survived. One of those pages then goes
on to become a congressman himself. No fear, He did
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not get deterred by this. He said, I'm going to
continue to serve my country. The four gunmen were all arrested, tried,
and they were sentenced to forty nine years in prison.
But the House of Representatives didn't step back and say, man,
this was a huge mistake. We let these guys in.
We didn't know they had guns. We have to change
our protocol and we should hide this. We shouldn't tell
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anybody that has happened because of the shame of failure. No,
that bullet hole is still in the ceiling, and there's
a bullet hole actually in one of the drawers of
the desks, and you can see they were placed a
piece of wood on the top of the desk where
the bullet had gone in, so you can see like
this discolored piece of wood, clearly a patched Again, they
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could have fixed that, so what was perfect, so you
would never know, so they could hide that story. But
they didn't hide that story. They didn't hide the failure
of that day, and they didn't hide the story of
Puerto Rico. They left the bullet holes there and when
you go to the house floor you can see those
as well, and your kids can see the look. This
was a day mistakes were made and a terror attack
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happened inside of our capital building, and yet we are
not ashamed to say we learned from it such a
valuable lesson for kids. It's clearly patched, there's clearly a
drawer with a hole in it, and it's left there
for future generations to learn what happened that day. Histories
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Right after this, we also visited the nine to eleven
Memorial at the Pentagon. It was so powerful because you've
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got a group of parents who all lived through that day.
We all had our own stories, and you have these
almost thirty eighth grade kids sitting there and they are
looking at all the names. You go through that memorial,
one hundred eighty four lives were lost at the Pentagon
that day, and there is a bench that is memorializing
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each person, every child. There were babies, there were kids,
there were grandparents, there were people working in the Pentagon
that day. Everyone's name is there, and you stand out
there and you hear the water running, and it's this
moment where these kids who hear about nine to eleven
every year, but they don't actually have a strong connection
(09:31):
to it. They weren't alive. They got to see our
reactions as parents walking in there, and one of the
parents said, Hey, why don't we get all of the
kids around us to talk about this? And it was
a big deal because you think about this, striking our
Department of Defense was a really strong message, and that
could have been a time when America said, man, we
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really screwed this one up. How did they strike us
at the heart of our military Terror had come into
our country. They proved vulnerabilities, they proved it. They showed
we can crash a plane right into your Department of Defense.
We hadn't accounted for that. We hadn't accounted for the
fact that we were going to have four terror attacks
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that day, two in New York, one in Pennsylvania, one
in Arlington, Virginia. And we remember it so clearly as parents,
two thy nine hundred seventy seven men, women, and children,
Americans all killed that day. As a group, we walked
through that memorial. We looked at those names, and we
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sat down and we shared with our eighth graders our
individual experiences from that day. We brought that day to
them in such a personal way. For me, it was
it's always hard to walk through those memorials. I had
actually just moved back from New York City. I was
living in Manhattan just months before this. My sister was
still in the apartment we were living in, and I
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had moved back. I was working in Chicago, and I
was commuting in from the suburbs, and I had taken
my train to my bus and I took my bus
to my building and I got out of my bus
that day and I walked up to the building. And
I will never forget having no understanding. And I think
for our kids, it was really shocking to hear how
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that experience went for each one of us. Because there
were no cell phones, there weren't smartphones. It wasn't like
instant information. You couldn't look it up and see what
was happening. You had to just kind of share information
until you could get to a TV. So I get
out of the bus that day and I walk up
to my building. At the time, it was called the
and Building. I'm not sure if it's been sold now,
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but it was the third tallest building in Chicago at
that time, right off the lake. And I walked up
and there were just police all around the building and
they said, maam, you're not going in here, and you
can imagine you have no idea what's happening. And I
was like, yeah, well, I have to go in and
at least tell my boss that you guys are keeping
us out of here. He's like, you don't understand. No
one's going in the building. Go home, you're not working today,
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no idea what was happening. And I walked back to
the bus and we get on the bus and I
will never forget sitting there, everybody is silent. We're all
trying to figure out what's going on, because truly, no
one's seen a TV. No one understands what's happening. The
radio is on, they said the first tower just fell.
We thought they were talking about a radio tower. We
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couldn't even imagine that it was a whole building. And
I said to the kids. I worked on the fifty
fourth floor, and the number of times that when I
was in that building in Chicago, we saw airplanes come
in across the lake and we would say, man, that
plane looks like it's coming right for the building, and
they would fly right past our building. We said, what
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was it like for those people that day? Because I
guarantee you that even as those planes came in, not
until the last moment did they realize that that plane
was actually going to hit their building. We got to
go through those emotions with them. We took them into
that memorial. They felt the emotions, they felt the pain,
and then we got to share with them the patriotism
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they came from those attacks that came at the weeks
and the years after those attacks, that brought us together
as Americans and we said, we failed, but we will
not fail again. We will not let our people down again.
And so many people, regular people, just regular Americans, said
I'm going to join the military. I'm going to go
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out there and fight. I'm going to make sure we
defend our nation because our nation is so special. And
it was so cool to watch them see this and
feel this and understand this. And then Toward the end
of the trip, we visited the Martin Luther King Junior
Memorial and that was one where you could see the
wheels turning because it's something that they've read about, but again,
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they've never experienced that kind of segregation, that kind of racism.
The Civil Rights Movement. We talked about the fight that
black Americans went through to receive equal rights in the
United States, the beauty of entering these spaces with your kids,
really hard spaces, really hard discussions, and opening up that
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dialogue to address the ugliest parts of our history, truly
ugly parts of our history that we wouldn't talk about
as parents and kids if we didn't take ourselves out
of the hustle and bustle of daily life. We all
took time off work. We all said, this is what's
important to show our kids what we've learned and where
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we come from, because it's interesting. If you don't learn
about the ugly parts, you really haven't seen how you
got here, I mean highlighting your failures. If you're defensive
all the time, you never learn if you go back
and said, yeah, we've really screwed up, look at where
we've come from. That and so we addressed that, and
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we had our kids in a place where they're looking
up this huge statue of Martin Luther King kind of
coming out of that those blocks behind him, like kind
of coming out of the mountain, and they're asking questions,
what was it, like, why did this happen? How did
we change this? And we're seeing that we had a
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black American who was treated differently and stood up to
this broken system, stood up to broken laws, and there
are broken laws, and that was another thing cool for
them to see. There can be laws that are wrong
and have to be changed, and there are people who
are empowered to go out there against the dark hearts,
against the people who don't want to change it, and
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they can overcome. And Martin Luther King Junior is one
of those. This country saw permanent change because King became
more than a leader. He became a light. He was
a peaceful light that was consistent under fire. He didn't say, Okay,
I've given up, We're going to start to get violent,
We're going to start to push back. He was consistent
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under fire. And that is also so meaningful for our
kids to see that, especially in a day where we
have so much divide, we have so much anger, consistent
under fire. I have a message, I have a dream.
I want everybody to be judged on the content of
their character and not the color of their skin. And
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we explain that tragically, Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated
for his movement, but think of what he did. His
legacy of loving people and fighting for equality. It lives
on forever. And that is the beauty of what we
see in Washington, d C. When we take our kids there.
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It's interesting because when you go there, the Martin Luther
King Junior Memorial is positioned in a direct line between
the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial, and the National Mall.
So we went to all three and you have the
Lincoln Memorial, which is obviously out there, and you're talking
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about the Emancipation Proclamation and you're talking about Lincoln freeing
the slaves. And then also Martin Luther King Junior. He
gave his famous I Have a Dream speech on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial. So you see, you can
draw a line directly from the Lincoln Memorial, through the
Martin Luther King Junior Memorial to the Jefferson Memorial, which
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is the Declaration of Independence. These memorials are all designed
to connect the founding documents to the change that was
made with the Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Junior's speech,
I Have a Dream, his movement for equal rights. This
is when you think about the thought that goes into
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these They're not just statues standing there. They are for discussion,
They are for us to learn. They change the way
we see history. And I saw these kids looking at
this and fully understanding. As they're walking through the war memorials,
they're seeing all those names, all those names on the
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Vietnam Memorial, all the names on the Korean War memorial
all of these people who were called to a war
in a foreign country and what they gave up. And
as you walk down those walls and you see your
own reflection against the those names, it's not something that
you easily forget what people gave up so that we
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could make sure that our country becomes greater and greater
and greater. And mistakes were made there, but we put
this on display to say, look at how we've grown,
just like we should all do in our lives when
we have mistakes that we make, look at how you grow.
You grow from your failures. And I see people all
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the time say why would this person run for office again?
Or why would this person try this again? They've failed,
and oftentimes that failure has grown them in a way
that they can do great things. So you see, we
learned that our country has been built by broken people,
that these people were looking to get better. Our failures
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should never be hidden away, because you can't become great
without acknowledging the pitfalls you have to drag yourself out of,
and this country has had plenty of them. So I
hope that like me and like these other parents who
were able to go there and even in our own capacity,
go through the Bible Museum, and go through the Holocaust
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Museum and learn about great figures who were able to
do incredible things. I mean, even as you're going through
the Holocaust Museum and you take your kids in there
and they see, they actually see it's hard stuff. They
and they've been talking about it since then. Interestingly, we
had some kids staying at the house last night and
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my eighth grader was talking about the Holocaust Museum and
to hear her from the just from the corner of
my ear listening as she's saying, yeah, you won't believe it,
Like you saw them marching people into this chamber, and
you knew that they weren't going to live. You knew
that they were going to do such evil things to
these people. How could they have done that? And the
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question as we walked through there, the number of times
these kids turned to us and said, how could anybody
do this? And is there really such evil in the world. Yes,
and you can never forget this. You have to understand
what happened so it never happens again. I've told this
story before, but I interviewed a Holocaust survivor a few
years ago. It was a woman and a man, and
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the woman didn't say anything. The man talked about his experience.
He had been at one concentration camp, she had been
at two different ones. And then when we walked out
of the room, the only thing she did was grab
my arm and she looked at me and she said,
they hate the Jews, and they'll do it again. And
even as an adult, I remember thinking things are different.
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We could never make that same mistake. But you saw,
you saw what happened on October seventh. You've seen the
anti Semitism rise. We had to talk to our kids
about never letting this happen again. They saw it with
their own eyes, and it was priceless to get them
to see it, to make sure that their hearts could
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never be hardened that way. So I hope our kids
were able to take away something significant from this trip.
I've heard them talking and I think they did. I
think they did. We all have failures, we're all broken,
but our failures bring our greatest growth. And that's what
I told them on the way home. We don't forget
our failures. Our failures make us who we are. They
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are our greatest growth. So we as a country, we
keep our failures on display, not to highlight those dark times.
And I think this is the confusion when people see
memorials and things that they want to tear down. That's
not to highlight dark times and honor them. That's to
remember that we became better because of those hard times.
No matter whether it is a shooting on the house floor,
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it is terror or racism, or any other horrific failure,
that we can never forget. The markers we leave from
the past prevent future failures. Learning our history, it's like
a cheat sheet. These are the faults of a great country.
We can always improve, but we should never repeat the
sins of our past. Our children have an interactive history
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right here in the United States. You got to take
them there. You got to share it with them. I
saw these eighth graders soaking in the knowledge that they
could never get in a classroom, walking through, seeing where
things happened, going to Mount Vernon and seeing where the
first president of the United States came back on his
horse after being at war for years upon years and
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said this is my home. They got to actually feel that,
touch that see that, breathe it in. And I hope
all of our children have the opportunity to see here
and feel our history, like my daughter and her friends
did this past week. Because we live in the greatest
country on earth, it is not perfect. We have certainly
risen from the ashes a few times, and I suspect
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we're not done because we always have something to learn from,
but we've got a highlight when we do. We have
to recognize when we broke down, when we failed, when
we did something wrong, and show our kids that that
has made us better because we're all going to fail.
We're all going to make mistakes, and they know by
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looking at that man. My mistakes don't define me. The
way I react to them do. My mistakes don't make
it so that this is the trajectory of my life.
The way I react to my mistakes and learn from
my mistakes will determine my future, and that is up
to me. And that's what we've done as a country.
It's been an amazing week. It's been an exhausting week,
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but it's been fun to watch our kids, and I
hope you can do it with your kids as well.
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Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, I just got
back from a five day trip to Washington, d C.
With around thirty eighth graders, And I know that sounds
like insane and it was totally exhausting, but it was
actually incredibly inspiring because we got to see our history
through the eyes of teenagers and it was really pretty special.
(00:22):
If you haven't taken your kids to our nation's capital,
I really am suggesting it. It is a must do.
I think one of the biggest lessons we learned is
that sometimes life can change in the blink of an eye.
And sometimes it's because of any evil act, but sometimes
it's because of a lack of precaution, and sometimes it's both.
(00:42):
And our kids I was watching them as they went
from memorial to memorial, from museum to museum, and they
were learning that those changes in life can leave a
lasting impact. It can be the loss of a loved
one or the implementation implementation of new policies. But whatever
happens in this country, we're not ashamed. There are things
(01:04):
that have happened in this country that we have learned
from that we continued to highlight because things that should
have caused shame in the moment, and did we have overcome,
We have learned from and we were able to teach
our kids that even our most horrific failures we can change,
we can grow from, just like we can all change
(01:26):
and grow. So we actually got to we actually got
to see that we keep in this country, we keep
our failures on display, we keep them as reminders that
we've learned hard lessons and that we continue to strive
towards excellence. Before I begin, I want to say a
big thank you to Speaker Johnson and Speaker Johnson's office
for taking our students on an extensive tour of the
(01:48):
Capitol building. And that was kind of like one of
the first things that really showed us that we can
learn hard lessons from terrible situations. Because we were sitting
on the House floor and we were hearing all these
historical stories about the US House and that was incredible.
But while we're there, they started to point out one
of those failures at a time when our congressmen were
(02:09):
in danger because of a lack of security protocols. It
was March first, nineteen fifty four, gunfire erupted on the
House floor. They had been in discussions about making Puerto
Rico the forty or the fifty first state. The US
had annexed Puerto Rico in eighteen ninety eight, and the
relationship between the island and the US government had had
(02:31):
some contention around it for quite some time. Some of
those folks in Puerto Rico wanted statehood, while others were
vehemently opposed. So we're sitting there, we're listening to this.
We learned that there were one on this day, that
on this March first, four of those who were opposed
to Puerto Rico becoming a state launched a surprise attack
(02:53):
on the House floor against our congressman. They were up
in the speakers in the spectator's gallery up there, and
they started shouting at the congressman below, Viva Puerto Rico,
Libre long, Live, Free Puerto Rico. They rained twenty bullets
onto the house floor. Now we're down there learning about this,
and we're seeing where those bullet holes are. I mean,
(03:15):
I think that's the coolest part. You've got these eighth
graders and they're hearing like you're on the house floor.
Look up in the gallery, you see there's four people up.
There's one woman and three men. They shot one bullet
into the ceiling. It's like a firing a warning shot,
and then they just started shooting down into the gallery.
(03:35):
So the bullet hole and the ceiling is still there.
The kids are looking up and seeing in nineteen fifty four,
there was a bullet shot into the ceiling and we
left it there as a reminder that this can happen.
At that time, when they started shooting downward, they shot
five of our US representatives. Representative who was most severely
(03:58):
injured was named Alvin Binn, and he was wounded. He
had a bullet wound to the chest. Now, four other
representatives were also shot that day. Ben Jensen shot in
the back, Clifford Davis was shot in the leg, George
Hyde Fallon was shot in the hip, and Kenneth Roberts
was shot in the knee. So the congressional pages, I mean,
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think about this, the pages are like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen
years old. They carried the wounded men all out of
there to safety, which I think is also incredibly impactful
to kids who are thirteen and fourteen years old, thinking
I could be sitting in here in just a few years,
see this happen and carry someone out to safety. All
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of those representatives survived that attack. These kids got to
learn that in this chamber, this horrific thing happened. Young
people saved these men, they carried them out, and all
of these men survived. One of those pages then goes
on to become a congressman himself. No fear, He did
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not get deterred by this. He said, I'm going to
continue to serve my country. The four gunmen were all arrested, tried,
and they were sentenced to forty nine years in prison.
But the House of Representatives didn't step back and say, man,
this was a huge mistake. We let these guys in.
We didn't know they had guns. We have to change
our protocol and we should hide this. We shouldn't tell
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anybody that has happened because of the shame of failure. No,
that bullet hole is still in the ceiling, and there's
a bullet hole actually in one of the drawers of
the desks, and you can see they were placed a
piece of wood on the top of the desk where
the bullet had gone in, so you can see like
this discolored piece of wood, clearly a patched Again, they
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could have fixed that, so what was perfect, so you
would never know, so they could hide that story. But
they didn't hide that story. They didn't hide the failure
of that day, and they didn't hide the story of
Puerto Rico. They left the bullet holes there and when
you go to the house floor you can see those
as well, and your kids can see the look. This
was a day mistakes were made and a terror attack
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happened inside of our capital building, and yet we are
not ashamed to say we learned from it such a
valuable lesson for kids. It's clearly patched, there's clearly a
drawer with a hole in it, and it's left there
for future generations to learn what happened that day. Histories
like these are recorded all across Washington, d C. All right,
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Memorial at the Pentagon. It was so powerful because you've
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got a group of parents who all lived through that day.
We all had our own stories, and you have these
almost thirty eighth grade kids sitting there and they are
looking at all the names. You go through that memorial,
one hundred eighty four lives were lost at the Pentagon
that day, and there is a bench that is memorializing
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each person, every child. There were babies, there were kids,
there were grandparents, there were people working in the Pentagon
that day. Everyone's name is there, and you stand out
there and you hear the water running, and it's this
moment where these kids who hear about nine to eleven
every year, but they don't actually have a strong connection
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to it. They weren't alive. They got to see our
reactions as parents walking in there, and one of the
parents said, Hey, why don't we get all of the
kids around us to talk about this? And it was
a big deal because you think about this, striking our
Department of Defense was a really strong message, and that
could have been a time when America said, man, we
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really screwed this one up. How did they strike us
at the heart of our military Terror had come into
our country. They proved vulnerabilities, they proved it. They showed
we can crash a plane right into your Department of Defense.
We hadn't accounted for that. We hadn't accounted for the
fact that we were going to have four terror attacks
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that day, two in New York, one in Pennsylvania, one
in Arlington, Virginia. And we remember it so clearly as parents,
two thy nine hundred seventy seven men, women, and children,
Americans all killed that day. As a group, we walked
through that memorial. We looked at those names, and we
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sat down and we shared with our eighth graders our
individual experiences from that day. We brought that day to
them in such a personal way. For me, it was
it's always hard to walk through those memorials. I had
actually just moved back from New York City. I was
living in Manhattan just months before this. My sister was
still in the apartment we were living in, and I
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had moved back. I was working in Chicago, and I
was commuting in from the suburbs, and I had taken
my train to my bus and I took my bus
to my building and I got out of my bus
that day and I walked up to the building. And
I will never forget having no understanding. And I think
for our kids, it was really shocking to hear how
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that experience went for each one of us. Because there
were no cell phones, there weren't smartphones. It wasn't like
instant information. You couldn't look it up and see what
was happening. You had to just kind of share information
until you could get to a TV. So I get
out of the bus that day and I walk up
to my building. At the time, it was called the
and Building. I'm not sure if it's been sold now,
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but it was the third tallest building in Chicago at
that time, right off the lake. And I walked up
and there were just police all around the building and
they said, maam, you're not going in here, and you
can imagine you have no idea what's happening. And I
was like, yeah, well, I have to go in and
at least tell my boss that you guys are keeping
us out of here. He's like, you don't understand. No
one's going in the building. Go home, you're not working today,
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no idea what was happening. And I walked back to
the bus and we get on the bus and I
will never forget sitting there, everybody is silent. We're all
trying to figure out what's going on, because truly, no
one's seen a TV. No one understands what's happening. The
radio is on, they said the first tower just fell.
We thought they were talking about a radio tower. We
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couldn't even imagine that it was a whole building. And
I said to the kids. I worked on the fifty
fourth floor, and the number of times that when I
was in that building in Chicago, we saw airplanes come
in across the lake and we would say, man, that
plane looks like it's coming right for the building, and
they would fly right past our building. We said, what
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was it like for those people that day? Because I
guarantee you that even as those planes came in, not
until the last moment did they realize that that plane
was actually going to hit their building. We got to
go through those emotions with them. We took them into
that memorial. They felt the emotions, they felt the pain,
and then we got to share with them the patriotism
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they came from those attacks that came at the weeks
and the years after those attacks, that brought us together
as Americans and we said, we failed, but we will
not fail again. We will not let our people down again.
And so many people, regular people, just regular Americans, said
I'm going to join the military. I'm going to go
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out there and fight. I'm going to make sure we
defend our nation because our nation is so special. And
it was so cool to watch them see this and
feel this and understand this. And then Toward the end
of the trip, we visited the Martin Luther King Junior
Memorial and that was one where you could see the
wheels turning because it's something that they've read about, but again,
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they've never experienced that kind of segregation, that kind of racism.
The Civil Rights Movement. We talked about the fight that
black Americans went through to receive equal rights in the
United States, the beauty of entering these spaces with your kids,
really hard spaces, really hard discussions, and opening up that
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dialogue to address the ugliest parts of our history, truly
ugly parts of our history that we wouldn't talk about
as parents and kids if we didn't take ourselves out
of the hustle and bustle of daily life. We all
took time off work. We all said, this is what's
important to show our kids what we've learned and where
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we come from, because it's interesting. If you don't learn
about the ugly parts, you really haven't seen how you
got here, I mean highlighting your failures. If you're defensive
all the time, you never learn if you go back
and said, yeah, we've really screwed up, look at where
we've come from. That and so we addressed that, and
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we had our kids in a place where they're looking
up this huge statue of Martin Luther King kind of
coming out of that those blocks behind him, like kind
of coming out of the mountain, and they're asking questions,
what was it, like, why did this happen? How did
we change this? And we're seeing that we had a
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black American who was treated differently and stood up to
this broken system, stood up to broken laws, and there
are broken laws, and that was another thing cool for
them to see. There can be laws that are wrong
and have to be changed, and there are people who
are empowered to go out there against the dark hearts,
against the people who don't want to change it, and
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they can overcome. And Martin Luther King Junior is one
of those. This country saw permanent change because King became
more than a leader. He became a light. He was
a peaceful light that was consistent under fire. He didn't say, Okay,
I've given up, We're going to start to get violent,
We're going to start to push back. He was consistent
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under fire. And that is also so meaningful for our
kids to see that, especially in a day where we
have so much divide, we have so much anger, consistent
under fire. I have a message, I have a dream.
I want everybody to be judged on the content of
their character and not the color of their skin. And
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we explain that tragically, Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated
for his movement, but think of what he did. His
legacy of loving people and fighting for equality. It lives
on forever. And that is the beauty of what we
see in Washington, d C. When we take our kids there.
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commit those same sins that our forefathers, our ancestors have committed.
It's interesting because when you go there, the Martin Luther
King Junior Memorial is positioned in a direct line between
the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial, and the National Mall.
So we went to all three and you have the
Lincoln Memorial, which is obviously out there, and you're talking
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about the Emancipation Proclamation and you're talking about Lincoln freeing
the slaves. And then also Martin Luther King Junior. He
gave his famous I Have a Dream speech on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial. So you see, you can
draw a line directly from the Lincoln Memorial, through the
Martin Luther King Junior Memorial to the Jefferson Memorial, which
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is the Declaration of Independence. These memorials are all designed
to connect the founding documents to the change that was
made with the Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Junior's speech,
I Have a Dream, his movement for equal rights. This
is when you think about the thought that goes into
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these They're not just statues standing there. They are for discussion,
They are for us to learn. They change the way
we see history. And I saw these kids looking at
this and fully understanding. As they're walking through the war memorials,
they're seeing all those names, all those names on the
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Vietnam Memorial, all the names on the Korean War memorial
all of these people who were called to a war
in a foreign country and what they gave up. And
as you walk down those walls and you see your
own reflection against the those names, it's not something that
you easily forget what people gave up so that we
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could make sure that our country becomes greater and greater
and greater. And mistakes were made there, but we put
this on display to say, look at how we've grown,
just like we should all do in our lives when
we have mistakes that we make, look at how you grow.
You grow from your failures. And I see people all
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the time say why would this person run for office again?
Or why would this person try this again? They've failed,
and oftentimes that failure has grown them in a way
that they can do great things. So you see, we
learned that our country has been built by broken people,
that these people were looking to get better. Our failures
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should never be hidden away, because you can't become great
without acknowledging the pitfalls you have to drag yourself out of,
and this country has had plenty of them. So I
hope that like me and like these other parents who
were able to go there and even in our own capacity,
go through the Bible Museum, and go through the Holocaust
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Museum and learn about great figures who were able to
do incredible things. I mean, even as you're going through
the Holocaust Museum and you take your kids in there
and they see, they actually see it's hard stuff. They
and they've been talking about it since then. Interestingly, we
had some kids staying at the house last night and
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my eighth grader was talking about the Holocaust Museum and
to hear her from the just from the corner of
my ear listening as she's saying, yeah, you won't believe it,
Like you saw them marching people into this chamber, and
you knew that they weren't going to live. You knew
that they were going to do such evil things to
these people. How could they have done that? And the
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question as we walked through there, the number of times
these kids turned to us and said, how could anybody
do this? And is there really such evil in the world. Yes,
and you can never forget this. You have to understand
what happened so it never happens again. I've told this
story before, but I interviewed a Holocaust survivor a few
years ago. It was a woman and a man, and
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the woman didn't say anything. The man talked about his experience.
He had been at one concentration camp, she had been
at two different ones. And then when we walked out
of the room, the only thing she did was grab
my arm and she looked at me and she said,
they hate the Jews, and they'll do it again. And
even as an adult, I remember thinking things are different.
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We could never make that same mistake. But you saw,
you saw what happened on October seventh. You've seen the
anti Semitism rise. We had to talk to our kids
about never letting this happen again. They saw it with
their own eyes, and it was priceless to get them
to see it, to make sure that their hearts could
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never be hardened that way. So I hope our kids
were able to take away something significant from this trip.
I've heard them talking and I think they did. I
think they did. We all have failures, we're all broken,
but our failures bring our greatest growth. And that's what
I told them on the way home. We don't forget
our failures. Our failures make us who we are. They
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are our greatest growth. So we as a country, we
keep our failures on display, not to highlight those dark times.
And I think this is the confusion when people see
memorials and things that they want to tear down. That's
not to highlight dark times and honor them. That's to
remember that we became better because of those hard times.
No matter whether it is a shooting on the house floor,
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it is terror or racism, or any other horrific failure,
that we can never forget. The markers we leave from
the past prevent future failures. Learning our history, it's like
a cheat sheet. These are the faults of a great country.
We can always improve, but we should never repeat the
sins of our past. Our children have an interactive history
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right here in the United States. You got to take
them there. You got to share it with them. I
saw these eighth graders soaking in the knowledge that they
could never get in a classroom, walking through, seeing where
things happened, going to Mount Vernon and seeing where the
first president of the United States came back on his
horse after being at war for years upon years and
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said this is my home. They got to actually feel that,
touch that see that, breathe it in. And I hope
all of our children have the opportunity to see here
and feel our history, like my daughter and her friends
did this past week. Because we live in the greatest
country on earth, it is not perfect. We have certainly
risen from the ashes a few times, and I suspect
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we're not done because we always have something to learn from,
but we've got a highlight when we do. We have
to recognize when we broke down, when we failed, when
we did something wrong, and show our kids that that
has made us better because we're all going to fail.
We're all going to make mistakes, and they know by
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looking at that man. My mistakes don't define me. The
way I react to them do. My mistakes don't make
it so that this is the trajectory of my life.
The way I react to my mistakes and learn from
my mistakes will determine my future, and that is up
to me. And that's what we've done as a country.
It's been an amazing week. It's been an exhausting week,
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but it's been fun to watch our kids, and I
hope you can do it with your kids as well.
So I want to say thank you for listening to
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