09-11-24 Your Morning Show 911 Montage

Remember the 911 terror attack 23 years later. Remembering is not enough!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
America eleven. Call our number one is in staff and
our five staff to talk to Jack. What's going on
that the crabs the rag again? Call right Eddy there, Betty, Betty,

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that's right here. What the world what are you talking to?
Oh god? Oh my god, one's seventy five year. We
have some cables over here right now. But we might
have a hijack over here to them. You're over a play.

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That's the hijack. The things will go. I'm going I
want to know and absolutely the fun here. Watch here.
So have frame for my parents and everybody who archised
the quarter bus and hopefully really see that. Sir, my daby,

(01:16):
what does how to do? I'll do? There's a book out.
Oh my god, so both towers are now here. I
got her cut of the white out that Prince of
City just going to Cristal City. Yeah, stop out markers

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go guy, hit don't say that. I got to say
I can't take one NBA in ninety three that traffic
three one oop twelve. I get a contact we're looking
at in ninety three the nighted ninety three lay why
if you hear the sill right done? Got this to
go read the big you have a whole hold Tuesday

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nine forty seven am, Hi, baby, baby, you have the
chipety carefully. I'm on a plane, as say, hid back,
I'm on the plane. I'm calling from the plane. I
want to tell you I love you Base how high
schildren that I loved them very much and I'm so
sorry baby. I hope to be able to see your
face again. Baby, I love you. Y We're five six

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eighty six, five times we have I believe it is
a bull seven to fifty seven? Can you see him
up there, sir? That's occurred. It looks like a rocket.
His wing brother's rocking back at four. We're five sixty
eight six five by five as you stayway from that
aircraft to go north to Capassed the kid United ninety three.
You got it for my on that yet? Yeah? He's down?

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You down? Yes? Where did you land? He did not
land down? Yeah? Tomorrow Northeast can David? What did we
in New York? He wants to smoke and you just
people does want people on the two ball places for

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row was we're got ready to day. How many I'm
gonna die? No, no, no, no, no no, they I'm
gonna die. They have I'm gonna say, your friend, I'm

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gonna they popped it because you gotta help. You gotta
get off the floor. Now. It was just before eight
am on September eleventh, two thousand and one. I was
hosting The Morning Buzz in Tulsa, Oklahoma, getting ready to

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concede the season for the Chicago Cubs and a silly
mock news conference. As we were laughing and joking our
way through another morning show, thousands of innocent Americans were
about to step into eternity. We had no idea of
the lives that were about to end, nor could we
imagine the unspeakable sites, emotions, and historic events that we

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were about to describe for our audience. I remember the
first moments of shock, I mean innocence, lost and awakening.
We had enemies and I knew nothing about them. I
remember asking my producer, Elvis Paulo, get me Governor Keating,
knowing that his brother Martin had been a prophetic voice
and a warning an authority on terrorism. I also knew

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of the Governor's past service heading up the FBI. I
began quickly to memorize names like al Qaeda, hamas Hesbaalah, Hussama,
Bin lad terms like FATOI, jihad, and infidels. I knew
that a new face of war had emerged, Yet I
couldn't even keep up with the historic happenings of the moment.

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I saw things I wasn't trained to see. I felt devastation,
I felt fear like never before. I was speechless, in
being paid to speak. I remember, thirteen hours later in silence,
and I don't just mean verbal silence, intellectual, physical, and
spiritual utter silence. I concluded my broadcast, I got into

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my car and I wept. I guess I cried for
what I saw, the lives lost, and for the helplessness
to stop what might be next, but mostly for the
realization of the hour I knew I now officially lived.
And even still twenty three years later, I remember vividly,

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and because I remember, I cannot forget. And because I
remember and cannot forget, I must speak and what I
must say twenty three years later, it's not enough to
just remember. That'll get me wrong. Remembering is important. The
thousands of lives taken before on and since nine to eleven,
because it was them, because it could have been us,

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because it may be us next, and by remembering it
forces us to focus on further understanding and hopes that
through knowledge of our enemy, eternal vigilance, and united determination,
we can prevent another major attack from ever happening again.
In the end, remembering gives us two choices. It gives

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us two choices. This morning, I'm this the twenty third anniversary.
Will we be victims or will we be victors? I
choose to honor my fallen fellow Americans by doing all
I can to prevent the next attack and eliminating the
threat for our time and for all time. Today, like

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every day, is about remembering, accurately and appropriately, speaking the
truth frankly and in love, identifying the enemy, and ultimately
defeating them. For we are not afraid, we are not
in secret, we are not in hate, we are not confused,
and we are not intimidated. And we are not victims.

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We are one nation under God, indivisible. We are inspired
by liberty, guided by our Constitution, and called to preserve
our freedom, preserve our republican, secure our way of life
for all generations to come. I have always felt that
to simply remember, that's a function of the mind. But

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to honor, that's a function of the heart. Remembering looks back,
but honoring focuses forward and lives on purposefully. Today. Let
us remember, but tomorrow and all our days forward, let
us commit to honor the lost. These constant images of
horrific past can serve to fan the flames of fear
and panic, and if unchecked through time, can build a

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victim mentality and posture. So the choice, the choice is ours.
We can be victims or we can be victors. I
know our accusers, our enemies. Heck, a majority of the
political leaders and even the mainstream media would love for
you to stop at just being a victim. But not me.
I will look back silently today, and only for a

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few moments, for there's too much to focus on right now.
Act on right now, speak about right now, and defeat
now and moving forward. Reminds me of a JFK quote,
not one of his famous ones. Change is the law
of life, and those who look only to the past
or the present are certain to miss the future, which

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reminds me of another famous quote, and this one was famous.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill.
We shall pay any price, we shall bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to
ensure and assure the survival and the success of liberty. Oh,

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how we need this type of understanding, leadership and inspiration
today if we plan to achieve the ultimate victory and
avoid the ultimate victimization. Twenty three years later, I still remember,
And because I remember, I can say it's not enough
to just remember. We must honor. I'm Michael del Jorno

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and this is your morning show.