00:00We had a sense back then that we were at a transformative moment.
00:04And we were.
00:06Immediately, your next breath was like sucking in a cup full of sand,
00:10and you just say to yourself, this is how it ends.
00:13Like, the skies had rained fire, and who knows what could come next.
00:1925 years later, the current generation lives in a world that was created by 9-11.
00:28My father was working at the Pentagon on September 11th.
00:31I just turned four.
00:33My dad was the co-pilot on Flight 93.
00:36I was 10 months old.
00:37I was five years old when 9-11 happened, and I wanted to serve my country.
00:41I was three years old.
00:43We got attacked, and they killed a bunch of our people.
00:46Obviously, we should bring some justice to those that did it.
00:50If you start to scratch at almost any aspect of our daily lives in the United States today,
00:58I can show you how 9-11 changed that part of our country.
01:06We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago.
01:13It's time for American troops to come home.
01:17Abbey Gate was a microcosm of the 20-plus year war in the Middle East.
01:23We underestimated how quickly that the Taliban would regain control,
01:27and we thought that we would have time to get everybody out.
01:31That was obviously not the case.
01:33We got hit.
01:34I've kind of come to the realization this is where I die.
01:38My thoughts were, what the hell have we been doing for 20 years?
01:44Terrorism is a word that you will never understand in any visceral way until you experience it.
01:52The irony is the existential threat to American freedom came not from these terrorists in Afghanistan,
02:02but from our nation's response to terrorism.
02:05The generation that is just coming of age now just know a different America.
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