Remembering September 11 25 Years Later: The Heroes and Bravery, and the Moments That Shaped America | Ep. 1396

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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show on this somber anniversary. The 25 year mark since 9-11 2001 The date America changed forever. And a date that many of us who were around at the time remember all too well. It is seared in our memories and will be forevermore. The closest thing that's happened akin to it would have been Pearl Harbor. And our parents or grandparents generation had a clear memory of that one and made sure that the rest of us understood what happened on that day that lived in infamy. And those of us who remember 9-11 2001 have an obligation to make sure that everyone remembers that date too. Already with the information age upon us, it's too easy to forget. It's too easy to be consumed by other things. It's too easy to be over on TikTok and hearing vignettes about how Bin Laden had a point. And so those of us who believe, no, Bin Laden did not have a point, need to remind people, especially the younger generation, many of whom consume shows like this one and podcasts and so on, that there was good and evil that day and we were the good. We were not the evil. This is not to say America's never done wrong on the international front or in its foreign policy, but there is no question that there were terrorists and there were heroes on the day of 9-11 and the Americans who were attacked and fought valiantly for their lives and for others' lives were the heroes. We were attacked by radical Islamic jihadists who had all sorts of beefs with America. Yes, they were upset about certain foreign policy decisions we had made, of course, and we need to be cognizant of that. But they did loathe the freedoms of the United States and the way we choose to live. Some people will mock that idea now. It's not mockable. It was one of the things they hated about us. We've learned that as we've learned more about the terrorist motives, we've learned that.

Foreign interventionism is not a great idea. And a lot of people oppose it for this very reason. But that's not what today is about, at least not for me. It's about the Americans who were innocent and who were living the kind of lives you and I are living right now. Getting up in the morning, getting their kids off to school, kissing them goodbye, going into the workplace to try to lead a productive life where you feel like you've added something to this world and then go back home to your family at the end if you're lucky. That's all they were doing. They were regular men and women working in those towers and at the Pentagon and on board Flight 93 who didn't consider themselves extraordinary and certainly didn't consider themselves to be soldiers in some sort of a war.

And the horror that was unleashed upon them was almost too much to repeat out loud, to actually articulate.

But there's something cathartic about doing it. Because in the back of your memory, if you were alive that day, you know you were a witness to a seminal event in American history. And you have it there under layer upon layer upon layer. And being reminded of what we all went through is somewhat cathartic because it's an affirmation that yes, we do have this shared history. Yes, we did learn a few lessons, more than a few from that horrific event. And we owe it to the men and women who suffered, died and were heroic on that day to be cognizant of what they went through and how it did change us individually and as a country.