The Weekly Show: 9/5/25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the weekly show here on iHeartRadio
Onney three nine Light FM, one All three five, Kiss FM,
and Rock ninety five to five. On the show today,
we're chatting with our friend Whitney Reynolds and Brady for
another episode of Whitney's Women. We're also chatting with Jay WINUK,
co founder and executive vice president of nine to eleven
Day and September is blood cancer Awareness Month, and we

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are chatting with Lee Clark, Senior Director Patient Programs with
the Applastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation, giving us some insight.
Let's kick off the show.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
September is blood cancer Awareness Month? But exactly what does
that mean? I thought we'd talk about it as we
bring in Lee Clark, Senior director of Patient Programs, a
Board certified patient advocate with the Aplastic Anemia and MDS
International Foundation. Lee, I appreciate the time, thanks for joining
us all.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Thank you so much. Bannie, we appreciated the invitation and
I'm delighted to be able to talk about Black canad awareness.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, let's start off with I guess the simplest question,
why September? Why is this month designated blood cancer Awareness Month?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Sture, great question, Thank you so much. The Leukemia Foundation
actually began Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September of twenty
ten as a month to be able to recognize blood
cancers which most people were not aware of and still

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are not today. So it was actually started by the
Leukemia Foundation in September of twenty ten.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
And leukemia is probably, I'm guessing, the best known blood cancer,
but there are many others, are there? Not?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Absolutely so when most people think of, you know, blood cancer,
they think of leukemia, lymphomas, myolomas, but there's so many
any other blood cancers that are not known, and there's
actually over one hundred different blood cancers. And the blood

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cancer that our organization supports is milo dysplastic syndromes or
sometimes people will refer to as MDS, and there's only
ten to fifteen thousand that are new cases that are
diagnosed each year in the US, and it is a

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rare blood cancer.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
What exactly is a plastic anemia or I'll refer to
as it MDS because I won't be able to pronounce
the full name. What exactly is that?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, so a plastic anemia is actually not a blood cancer.
So MDS or Milo dysplastic syndromes is the blood cancer
that our organization support. So it's actually where your bow
marrow is not producing healthy blood cells, which then causes

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anemia and other symptoms for patients. And there are treatments available,
but the only known cure at this time is a
bow marrow transplant.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
What are some of the symptoms of this? How does
someone end up going to a doctor and get diagnosed
with MDS?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
That excellent question. So most patients don't even really know
they have MDS. It can be found through a blood test.
You go in for a physical and have a CBC.
A lot of times patients will say they were feeling fatigued,
or they may notice they were having bruises on their

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legs unexplained. So usually the DIKES. This starts with some
type of symptom of the disease, which then leads to
tests being done, a referral to a hematologist or an oncologist,
and then further testing is done. But ultimately the disease

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is diagnosed through a bone marrow biopsy.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
And you mentioned that there's there's no real cure, but
what kind of treatments does someone with MDS start? Just
a bone marrow transplant.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
A bone marrow transplant as of today, is the only
known potential cure, but there are other treatments that are
available for patients that help with the symptom management of
the disease.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
How does your group empower patient? I guess caregivers are
a key part of the whole process as well.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Absolutely so, once someone is diagnosed, everyone that knows and
loves them is diagnosed as well. So through our organization,
we are looking to empower patients with information about their diagnosis,

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what their what the treatment options are that are available,
providing them with resources where they can get connected with
others who have MDS. With the disease being so rare,
it's really hard for patients to be able to connect
with another patient. And then we you know, through our

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educational programming. Each year, we host patient and family conferences.
We have our webinars, which are interviews with experts about
different topics that would be important for patients and their
loved ones their support networks to know. We also host
podcasts such as the one that we're on today. But

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the other piece that's really important that we do is
we also invest in research, making sure that the latest
is being done and looking for patients to understand that
there are things that are being done to help advance
treatments and a cure that may be available for everyone.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Do these types of I guess they're known as marrow disorders.
Do they primarily affect a certain demographic?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
So it depends on For NDS, the median age of
diagnosis is in your early seventies. It's not discriminative of
whether you're a male or female. However, with all of
that said, there are children who are diagnosed young adults,

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but primarily it has been known as a disease of
older individuals, but that doesn't mean that other age groups
are not diagnosed.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Is there a cause? Do we know what causes these
types of blood cancers.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Sture? So for MDS, there are a few things that
experts have been able to determine. One of them is
environmental exposures. It could be a known cause.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
A couple more minutes here with Lee Clark, Senior Director
of Patient Programs, a board certified patient advocate with the
Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation. Talk to me about
how you became part of this group and a patient
advocate for something like blood cancers and MDS.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Sure so, great question, and I have been very proud
to be a staff member here at the Foundation for
the past eighteen years. Actually had worked in the field
previously with individuals with developmental disabilities as an advocate. So

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that's how I came upon the organization through a former colleague,
and you know, learned about the foundation all that they
do to help support patients and their networks. And I've

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been very proud to work here for an organization that
is all about patients first, supporting patients, supporting their network,
working side by side with healthcare providers, and making sure
patients have the very best in education about their diagnosis

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and providing supports.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You mentioned a couple of times that providing that support,
empowering patients for MDS, for example, because it's so rare
is one of the challenges. How I guess popular there
is the wrong word. But how prominent are these blood
cancers when we think of it in the scope of
all of the other cancers.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sure so, for MDS, there's approximately ten to fifteen thousand
individuals diagnosed each year in the US. So MDS is
known as a rare disease and it can be very
difficult for patients finding supports. It can be very difficult

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finding someone who has MDS for you to be able
to connect with and talk and share experiences. Some of
the other challenges with MDS is finding a physician who
is an expert in MDS. It's very important for patients

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to find someone that understands MDS. It can be very
challenging to manage UH and to treat. And one of
the things our organization is able to do is help
connect patients with these expert physicians to make sure that
they're getting second opinions and then there and that they're

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getting the very best care. One of the things that
we hear a lot is from patients is MDS isn't
an invisible disease. So patients look fine, you may not
really know that there is something that is going on
with them, and that can be very challenging for for patients.

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But you know, through our organizations, through our educational programming UH,
through our virtual support groups UH, through our we have
something that's called our peer Support network, which is where
we can connect patients one on one with another patient
to be able to talk about what they're going through

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and be able to share experiences. We're able to help
patients find answers to their questions, support for what they're
going through, and hope for a future.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Do you find that most primary care physicians lack information
about blood cancers and mds and things like that.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yes, it's not their area of expertise. Sometimes I hear
from patients quite often they went in for a routine
physical with their primary care physician, and when they got
blood work back, the primary care physician noticed something was

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off with the blood work and then about referring them
on to a hematologist oncologist where they did more testing.
So sometimes a diagnosis starts out of physical Sometimes folks
don't even really realize there's something going on inside of

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them because they may not be exhibiting symptoms that you
would think of when you hear somebody has a blood cancer.
So a lot of times, right it starts with the
simple I went in for a physical, had a CBC.
Or they may go to the doctor because they've noticed
they have extra bruising that may happen that would lead

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them to go. But usually it's there's a diagnosis would
be sometimes through the primary care physician that then prompts
the going to see a specialist.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
We mentioned September is blood cancer Awareness month. How how
do you hope to make the general public aware of
blood cancers and what impact do you hope to have
this month. What do you want the public to know.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
We'd like the public to know that you know there
are many blood cancers that our patients are being diagnosed.
Our hope is is that with patients hearing about for
us MDS, it would spark them to think about if

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they're suffering from anemia or they're having symptoms, to seek
a second opinion because MDS would be something that they
may want to inquire about. Our goal is also to
help our community, the MDS community, make awareness about their diagnosis,

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give them something to empower them, letting people know what
is going on with them, and hopefully through education, we're
able to help others who may be in the process
of being diagnosed or received a new diagnosis be able
to find us.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
And sometimes it's that peer support and the community that
can be the difference between a successful treatment and an
unsuccessful trament Lee really appreciate the time. Really appreciate the time.
Best of luck.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Thank you so much for having me have a great day.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's Lee Clark, Senior Director of Patient Programs at the
Aplastic Anemia MDS International Foundation. The website is AA MDS
dot org, aa MDS dot o RG.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yes, thank you so much, And you know I'm all
about it always pretty much twenty four to seven, all
about the positive vibes, need them in my life, and
that is why I'm all. Are we so excited when
I get to chat with my pal from the Whitney
Reynolds show Whitney Reynolds this year, Hello Whitney.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
Hello, it is another edition of Whitney's Women, and I'm
so excited because we have a return, a return guess,
but this time she is talking about being honored for
the Lighthouse of Chicago, and as if she couldn't be
any more charitable, she is the honoree for their big event.
Let's welcome doctor Stacey McLain.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Hi, Whitney, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure
to be with you.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
I know, I'm so excited to share about what's coming
up for the Lighthouse because this is an organization that
is near and deared me. One we interviewed Tim Paul,
one of their associates, and also somebody who works very
closely with the Lighthouse on all front, so we interviewed
him on our new fall season that's coming up. But

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the work they are doing in Chicago Land is just
truly incredible. Stacy, tell us little bit about the Lighthouse.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
You're right, Wendy. It is an absolutely outstanding organization, do
you know. It's one of the only organizations in Illinois
that is the oldest that is serving people who are
blind and visually impaired in the United States. They have
over forty programs that help blind, visually impaired, disabled, and veterans.

(16:25):
They are really movers and shakers in the world of
low vision and vision impairment.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
Hmmm.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
I love that, you know. I did a tour at
one of their facilities and it was so cool because
they really they they span across all ages too. There
were kids benefiting from their programs. It truly is amazing.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Absolutely they you know, they start with the youngest and
you know, they they served so many different causes, particularly
focusing with flair on the children and the youth that
are blind and visually impaired. But they have over forty
programs and thirty five percent of their employees have disabilities.

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For our veterans, so they are really encompassing so many things.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Well, you said a word, and that is what we're
getting to Flair. Tell us all about the fashion show
Flair and what it entails.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
We are so excited for Flair and we're excited to
see you there on the runway. So the Flair, as
you know, is in its twelfth year. It's going to
happen at the Four Seasons on Friday, September twelfth, which
is just around the corner. It is a lovely day,
starting with a reception at eleven and moving on to

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the fashion show and lunching at eleven forty five. It's
a really special time to uplift and celebrate these children
who are blind and visually impaired. And we're so lucky
to have not only woke celebrities the runway, but we

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also are delighted to have models from the Lighthouse as
well with disabilities and there's no repairment.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
It is such a beautiful day. I've been involved for
a few years now and you can't help but walk
away with a smile. You're seeing you know, local designers,
local looks, you know, elevating Chicago. You mentioned the Four
Seasons always a great venue, but like you said, there
are real people that are being impacted by the Lighthouse
on the runway. So it's really a day that people

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can learn more about their mission. So tell us where
do people get tickets for it?

Speaker 6 (18:39):
There's so available so that we would love for anyone
to join us who's listening. They can just go to
the Chicago Lighthouse dot org and you'll navigate. You can
forward flash event or Flair, but you'll be able to
see it because although they have many events through the year,
Flare is the next one that is up and coming
and our focus.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh absolutely it is. And now let's talk about you.
I know you're super humble. I mean, you're saving the
world doctor before your name. You have a charity that
you personally run yourself, or a nonprofit that you give
back to, but you're being honored this day. Tell us
a little bit about what it means to you to
have your name associated with such a great event.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Well, you know, I come from a background in a
community where giving back was very important, so that is
just part of my nature. So I agree with you
with the Lighthouse and Flair. I was touched and moved
when I came to their first event over twelve years,
so it's very meaningful to me. I align with their values.

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My foundation, Fasis for Love Foundation helps to support women
and children facing adversities. So anytime we can lift up
the children who are blind or visually impaired and support
these youth pro it means the world to me. I'm
absolutely humbled and grateful for this experience.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh, I love it and you You're going to be
not only the honoree, but you'll also people will get
to see you that day. You'll get to give a speech.
Do you know what designer you're wearing yet?

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Fortunate to where both Macy's, who you know, is also
one of the runway sponsors and I to tour, so
my daughter's joining me, so it'll be a special little
walk down the runway for it.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Oh that is such a Really this is going to
be a memory in the making, and we want our
listeners to get involved again. You can go to the
Chicago Lighthouse dot org for more info. Thank you so much,
doctor Stacey for coming on.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
It's going to be the best day. Thank you for
having me.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Whitney Love Love Love events like this. Whitney, great job
bringing this to the forefront. Here for Chicago, but we
also need to know what is happening in the wonderful
world of me, which I feel like that should be
the name of a TV show.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
What is and is? Look at you?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
You a branding?

Speaker 5 (21:07):
I love it. Well, you know what I just posted.
And you said this whenever we whenever we jumped on here.
You know, you said, I saw your newest Instagram. And
we're doing small snippets of interviews that are coming up
this fall for The Whitney Reynolds Show, and I'm so
excited to say, and just now, well, technically it's still
over a month away, but October thirteenth we launch our

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new season and it is full of hope. You'll see
a new look. We have these new state of the
art video boards that are at Sinicity, our home studio,
and we're telling stories on a deeper level this season.
You know, if you are new to our show, our
goal is to be the strongest voice of hope in
the nation, and every season we are working towards that

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mark and you're going to see it. You're going to
see it this season.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Great job paying the picture. We cannot wait, you said.
August thirteenth is the big day. And of course we
will talk obersright October.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeh, it's done.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
What am I talking about?

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, No, we look forward to and of course we
will talk before then as well. So thanks for coming
on again, Whitney.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
It's hard to imagine it's been twenty four years since
the nine eleven terror attacks and the unity we all
felt in the days and months afterwards as Americans has
long evaporated. But on the anniversary we commemorate the nine
to eleven Day of Service and Remembrance. Let's talk about
it and what it means with Jay Winnick. He's co
founder and executive vice president of nine eleven Day. Jay,

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thanks for joining us. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
It's my pleasure. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Let's talk about exactly what is nine eleven Day.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
Well, it is the one way the nation helped to
continue with the promise to never forget. It's a national
day of service and remembrance. Our nonprofit organization, which also
goes by nine to eleven Day, was responsible for starting
this initiative back in two thousand and two, and together

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with the help of a lot of folks and organizations
and companies, we have grown the anniversary of nine to
eleven into the nation's largest annual day of charitable engagement,
and it's one of only two days of service recognized
under federal law, which passed in two thousand and nine.
And it's really a call to America to do good

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deeds on nine to eleven with acts large and small,
as a way to rekindle that spirit that you reference,
that togetherness that was so spontaneous and natural and impactful
in the days and weeks after nine to eleven happened.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
This effort is personal for you, correct.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
It is, Manny. My brother Glenn Winnick died in a
line of duty and the terrorist attacks in New York City.
He was a partner at the Holland Knight law firm
and their offices were located a few blocks from the
World Trade Center for twenty years. Glenn was a volunteer
firefighter and an EMT in our hometown on Long Island,

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and so he helped evacuate the law offices of his
firm and then headed on foot into the South Tower
to save lives, and he perished when the South Tower collapsed.
So you know, Glenn was somebody who lived his life
and died in service to other people. And I wanted
to engage in an initiative that reflected the way he

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lived his life.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
How do you balance that the grief so many years
later and still remembering and missing your brother, and the
pride you have to feel with what this day of
remembrance has become.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
It is bittersweet, Manny. You know, I have to tell
you we we never forget Glenn. I'm so proud of
him every day and I think of him every day.
But the legacy that he has left is extraordinary and impactful.
Along with my co founder David Payne, we just kept
putting one foot in front of the other, hoping, just

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hoping that this idea would resonate and take root with America,
and indeed it has, and so for that I'm extremely grateful.
I feel like you asked about it. On a personal level, well,
I feel like working on this initiative is really the
best thing that I could do in Glenn's honor, encourage

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people to do good deeds for other and to come
together at least on this one day a year, And
so that's very meaningful and gratifying for me.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Next year will be the twenty fifth anniversary. Obviously, I
imagine that would be an enormous thing in the company,
in the country. And on nine to eleven, we obviously
have the the ceremonies there at Ground Zero, at the
Pentagon in Pennsylvan Shanksville and across the country. But do
you think the further away we get from the attacks,

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the less the less Americans really feel of how we
all felt in those days and weeks afterwards. We've forgotten
how it impacted all of us.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
Well, we wonder about that all the time. Certainly in
the early years when we were starting this initiative, you know,
we looked at ourselves, those of us who were responsible
for getting this observance underway, wondered would it matter in
five years, ten years, fifteen years, would it matter in
twenty five years? But I have to tell you it does.
There have been about one hundred million people born in

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this country many since nine to eleven happened. One hundred
million people, and of course they have no direct memories
of the attacks, nor of the way the nation came together.
That I have to tell you. When when we see
about the response of young people to engage in service

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of the Day of Service each September, it's very inspiring
and encouraging. They really want to know. And I think
that part of the magic here is the combination of
remembrance and service. You know, give people an opportunity to
do something meaningful as a way to remember, as a
way to impact the world around them, their communities, or

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whatever it may be. And it's amazing how it resonates
with people. What we do, those of us who were
here twenty four to twenty five years ago, I think
we have a responsibility to make sure that future generations
understand just what went on and what lessons we can
take coming out of that tragedy. And then the way
people came together is.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That the biggest challenge in sustaining the momentum for nine
to eleven day, the further away we get from the actual.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Day, I suppose, but you know, we have people from
all fifty states participating. Every year. It is by far
the largest day of service in the country. Tens of
millions of people actively engage in the observance by doing
good deeds, and so that is very encouraging. Our organization
about ten years ago started staging signature service projects around

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the country. This year will be staging large scale meal
packs in twenty four cities throughout the United States, and
the response to that from volunteers and companies and municipalities
and faith based groups and sports teams to participate in
those large scale meal packs. I mean, I just this

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coming nine to eleven, more than nine million meals are
going to be packed in one day to feed people
who are risk of hunger in this country. That's just
one example of how remembrance and service on nine to
eleven are positively impacting those in needs. I think it's
a good sign.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
We've talked about how personal this is for you. Has
there been Has there been a personal moment in these
years with nine to eleven Day that really stands out
for you on a personal level?

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Oh? So many. I have to tell you. It's really something,
you know, My brother Glenn, my late brother Glenn, had
so many wonderful people in his live family and friends
and colleagues, and so many reach out each nine to
eleven and continue to remember. And that's very meaningful too.
The work that I get to do on nine to

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eleven day, I have a front row seat to an
amazing outpouring of generosity and humanity and compassion. Perhaps though
most personal is seeing how my kids have come to
appreciate both how special their uncle was one of them.

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My son, Justin was only four, my daughter was yet
to be born when he died, and their understanding of
not only the way Glenn lived his life, but the
legacy that he has left behind. And to see how
the country rallies around this observance each year, to me,
that's very personally heartwarming because they are the next generation.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
A couple more minutes here with Jay Winnett, co founder,
executive vice president of nine to eleven Day, what role
do you see as schools and local communities that maybe
are far away from ground zero the Pentagon Shanksville have
in continuing to grow this anniversary in this day of

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service every year.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
It is gratifying to see that more and more schools
are built into the curriculums teaching about nine to eleven,
But I do think we have a long way to
go to ensure that it is taught universally and properly,
that it's not just another day on the calendar. And
we see examples every year of more and more schools,

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and we have a robust education program with free downloadable
lesson plans on our website. Nine to eleven day dot
org that are used increasingly in classrooms all over the country.
There are college campuses that are doing service projects, in
part funded by a program that we do with AmeriCorps,

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where college students everywhere, about eighty campuses this year alone
are going to be doing service projects either on campus
or in the communities where those colleges are based. So
I think there's the promising future in terms of education.
And nine to eleven our friends at the nine to
eleven Museum a robust education program for young people. There's

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a lot of efforts being made by a lot of
organizations to ensure that nine to eleven is not forgotten
and that the lessons coming out of eleve of and
are learned generation after generation.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Do you come across people who are skeptical maybe of
the connection between public service or performing a good deed
as having anything to do with remembering the terror attacks.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
We had very little pushback, I can tell you, as
soon as people realize that it is to reflect the
way the nation came together. You know, this was a
bipartisan effort then, and when you know, if you talk
about let's say the political environment that is often very
divide in this country, every kind of person, with every

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kind of political background or geographically, we were so spread
out religious differences, sexual orientation differences, economic differences. Nine to
eleven touched everybody in this country, no matter who you were,
no matter where you were, And of course, people from
more than ninety countries perish in the attacks. So we
were all hit in one way or another by this tragedy,

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and it is a time to come together. We do
get virtually no real pushback on the connection between service
and nine to eleven, because it was service. It was
good deeds that helped bring us out of the tragedy
after nine to eleven, And as soon as people understand that,
they understand the sensibility of an observance like this, and

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it's why it has grown into the nation's largest day
of service.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Jay, how do you how do you navigate that, especially
in today's increasingly divided country, Those those days, those weeks.
We've talked about it several times in our conversation already.
It was really even for somebody cynical the last time
we were all united as Americans. You mentioned all of
those things, politics, religion, sexual, none of it mattered. We

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all came together as a country and how do you
how do you walk that fine line in this day
and age on this anniversary every.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Year, you know, it's gotten to the point really where
you know that famous line, if you build it, they
will come right. We are presented, We have presented this
opportunity to the nation, and the nation has responded by
the millions. You know, people really are looking for something
productive and meaningful to do as a way to mark

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the day. And I think most people appreciate the opportunity
to put aside the divisiveness and realize that we are
all Americans, that everybody needs and helping hand once in
a while. Most people in this country have an opportunity
to make a difference with x large and small, and

(34:37):
it really does resonate with people. Of course, we all
wish for more of it, for the rhetoric to be
toned down and give people more and more opportunities to
make a difference for others, but especially on this day,
people get it. People get it, and it's it's very
heartwarming and impact.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Nine dot org is the website if you want to
find out more information, if you want to donate nine
one one day dot org. And I'm looking ahead to
next year. I can't imagine what that's going to be like. Jay,
I really appreciate the time everything you've done. Best of
luck this year and in the years beyond.

Speaker 7 (35:17):
Thank you the pleasure to speak with you.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
It's Jay Winnick, co founder and executive vice president of
nine to eleven Day.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
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