00:23I'm scared.
00:52The mission, and I was always interested in knowing if you'd ever be a point with someone
00:56so that we can go out, build our business, earn profits, take care of the families of the
01:01658 families that we lost.
01:07On September 10th, Gary took myself, my brother Howard, my sister-in-law Allison out for a
01:17surprise evening, and we had the best time.
01:20And then on September 11th, he's gone.
01:23I think if you ask any 9-11 family, they have a definitive before and after.
01:29We had no choice but to grieve Gary, which was beyond brutal, but also understand that
01:37there were hundreds and hundreds of other families who had just lost someone that they
01:42loved as much as I loved Gary at Cantor.
01:46And so we had to turn our sights to how to take care of them as best we possibly could.
01:51Grief is a part of you.
01:52It doesn't leave you.
01:54But you learn to live with it, and you learn to move forward in a positive way.
02:00You don't move on, but you do move forward.
02:03And you take everything that you learned from this experience, and it helps you grow.
02:09If you're a mother, you rise to the occasion so that your children have a good life.
02:15If you are a friend, you support the family of those that lost someone that they loved.
02:23If you are a sibling, you carry that person with you.
02:27But what we have found, and what our families have found, is that there's strength in growing,
02:35and there's strength in finding a mission larger than yourself.
02:39September 11, 2001, was my first day of kindergarten.
02:43I have a clear memory of my being in the classroom, him getting a phone call, having a runout.
02:48I had no idea what was going on.
02:50My first memory of the memorials was being in Central Park here, big memorial, meeting
02:56all the families for the first time.
02:58I can't even comprehend what it's like to go to so many funerals all back to back to back.
03:02In the context of before and after, I was five years old.
03:06It was not really much of a before for me.
03:08My whole life has been defined by this.
03:11I had to grow up pretty quickly, surrounded by the funerals, surrounded by the way my
03:16father was acting and being on TV, and it was just a lot.
03:21Family was dealing with a lot through that time and over the years, and giving back.
03:27Being of myself and giving to others has been probably the most defining part of my life
03:33to the point that I started a charity when I was in seventh grade called Game Nights,
03:37and the purpose of it was to donate video games to kids that were stuck in hospitals
03:41because I had my own experience where I was stuck in a hospital.
03:44The purpose of our charity day is how do we get through a day that would otherwise be
03:49really, really difficult to get through?
03:51And we give away lots of money every year, and last year we gave away a record
03:56round of money, $15 million, and that comes from giving a day's revenue of the firm.
04:00You'd expect it to go up as the firm gets bigger, and there's a lot of incredible things
04:04we get to do with that money.
04:05Give it to the relief fund, and through the relief fund, we get to donate to 180 incredible
04:09charities.
04:10Canter lost 658 people, two-thirds of its workforce, but every number is a person.
04:17The legacy of those we lost is to remember those we lost, but it's also for you to look
04:23at these families, and to see what they've learned in this 25-year journey, and to move
04:30forward with them, because these families, they're a part of us.
04:35They will always be a part of us.
04:38Today, tomorrow, the next day.
04:41Today, tomorrow, the next day.
04:57You
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