WEBVTT - The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Remembering September 11, 2001 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:02.960 Hey, this is Buck Sexton and you're listening to the 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.160 Tutor Dixon Podcast, part of the Clay Travers and Buck 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.560 Sexton podcast Network. Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.560 want to encourage all of us to remember and honor 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.319 the sacrifices that have been made by so many to 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.919 protect and preserve the United States. Today is a special day. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.759 We remember those we lost as a result of the 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.680 attacks on our country on September eleventh, two thousand and one. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.480 That day, we lost two nine hundred and seventy seven Americans. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.800 We hear so many stories of heroism from that day, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.959 the man in the red bandana, the volunteer, the off 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.480 duty firefighters who rushed to the scenes, and the neighbors 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.480 and civilians who faced horror like we have never seen. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.480 Frank Siller has one of his own stories of heroism 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.199 from that day. Frank is the founder, chairman, and CEO 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.320 of Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which was starting in remembrance 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.280 of his little brother, Stephen, a New York City Fire 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.640 Department firefighter who gave his life on nine to eleven. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.399 Before I bring Frank in with me, I want to 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.720 first tell you about a great product that I have 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.759 in my home called in virol Clans. When you think 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.640 about the air in your home, ask yourself if all 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.680 home air purifiers are the same, why did the US 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.800 Department of Defense select in Viral Clans to protect and 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.640 purify the air on board our navy ships. We use 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.920 it in our house because one of my girls suffers 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.919 from severe seasonal allergies. 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It's 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.800 Ekpere dot Com Code Dixon, Ekpre dot Com Code Dixon. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.920 Now I want to welcome Frank Seller onto the podcast. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.560 Thank you so much for joining us today on this 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.240 day that, like I said before we got in on here, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.760 all of us remember this day who lived through it, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.480 All of us remember the devastation and watching. For those 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.200 of us who were there in person watching it happen, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.120 and for those of us that were watching it on TV, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.920 will never forget. But for you it's different. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:52.359 You. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.080 I've never actually heard your story. I've seen you on 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.040 TV a million times. I knew that you had that 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.800 your brother, you had lost your brother, not heard that 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.520 you were going golfing that morning, that that was your plan. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.000 Yes, So twenty two years ago today, my brother Stephen 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.600 was just finished his night tour in squad Wan in Brooklyn, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.000 which is an elite firehouse. They trained for terrorism, and 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.360 they trained to rescue other firefighters. And he just finished 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.120 his store. He was driving on his way home. He's 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.280 going to play golf with myself, my brother George, and 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.519 my brother Russ. And he heard on the radio scan 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.000 of what, you know, the tablets were hit. So, you know, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.720 what do these great heroes do. They turn around, they go. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.920 He went back to his firehouse, he got his gear. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.200 His fire company would already responded, you know, to the 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.560 call to duty. And so he got his gear and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.800 drove to the mouth of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. If 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.640 you listeners who don't know, that tunnel connects Brooklyn with 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:55.840 downtown Manhattan. It's almost two miles long. It was closed 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.360 for security reasons. You know, people already banding their cars 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.280 in there, and they didn't weren't letting anyone go in 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:07.400 towards the Manhattan obviously for obvious reasons. So he pulled 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.240 over his truck, got out, put his sixty pounds of 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.120 fire gear on his back, and ran through that tunnel 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.720 up West Street to what we believe he ran into 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.120 the South Tower because that's where his other firefighter buddies 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.480 were recovered later on, and I'm sure he found out 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.719 that he knew that his firefighter guys that he trained 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.080 with every day were in the South Tower. So that's 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.159 where you'd want to go and rescue people and be 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.039 around the people you train with every day. And while 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.120 going up those stairs and saving others, he gave up 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.680 his life. And when we heard the story of what 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.039 my brother did that day, I didn't you know, we 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.880 didn't know, you know that for sure that he died 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.680 on nine to eleven on twenty two years ago, you know, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.720 when the South Tower came down. Actually I felt inside 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.520 that I did lose my brother. At that point, I 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.320 remember turning to my mother in law and saying, hey, Nancy, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:08.960 I think I just lost my brother. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:09.839 Wow. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.960 Not knowing that he got there, I had no idea, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.960 you know that. You know. I kept on saying, well, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.600 maybe he couldn't get there, and maybe the towers came 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.520 down before he got there. You know, I was praying, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.839 and you know, but to go back to that, you know, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.200 that day twenty two years ago, and I'll just for 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.240 your listeners to understand what all nine love families are 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.719 going through that day. So I found out that my 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.200 brother was on a list of missing firefighters, and I 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.320 was going to different firehouses, and I actually was preparing 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.840 to go to ground zero myself with a company out 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.120 of Staten allan Call Rescue five. You know, all these 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.360 guys all my life, you know, Staten anam's a really 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.760 blue collar you know, copspyfighters and all that kind of stuff. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.560 And and so. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.920 But eventually I realized that they was so horrific. I 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.120 had my siblings come over my house. So Stephen was 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.680 the youngest of seven kids and and he was a 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.200 father of five. So I start to have him come 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.479 to my house. And later in the afternoon, a friend 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.520 of my brother's, a firefighter, Richie Obermiah, who actually lived 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.159 two doors away from my brother on Staten Island, called 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.880 me up and said, hey, Frank, this is Richie. You 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.800 know I'm down here at ground zero. I want you 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.360 to know that Steven's on the list of missing firefighters. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.360 And I said, yeah, Richie, I knew that. Thank you 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.240 for calling me. You know, I've been trying to call Stephen, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.680 you know, trying to contact him. And he goes, well, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.400 you know, he's on that list, and I want to 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.279 let you know that it's really bad. Down here, and 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.200 I said, yeah, Richie, I could see it's bad. I'm 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.240 here with my family, My sisters are here, my brothers 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.160 are here. You know, I could see how bad he's 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.320 He goes no, Frank gets bad. I said, rich I'm 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.880 looking at it. I see it's bad. He goes, no, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:07.560 you don't understand. Nobody's coming home. And I had to 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.680 get off the phone and tell my sisters and my 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.480 brothers that, and you know, it really brought us to 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.160 our knees. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.480 My sister Gina was wailing. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.760 And we were devastated, and you know, you know, we 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.920 didn't know one hundred percent he was gone at that point, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.960 but like I mentioned to you before, I felt he 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.200 was gone, knowing that he had gotten there. And so 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.280 it was a terrible day. But there was so many 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.800 acts of heroism. I heard you talked about the man 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.840 in the red bandana on your intro, and that Wells Crowther. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.960 You know, I know his mom, you know I spoke 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:39.320 to her. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.720 If you go to our website, we have his story 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.880 up there. Because there was so many acts of heroism 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.040 that some are told, some on told that you know, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.720 the people will never know about it. And so today 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.920 we're remembering all twenty nine hundred and seventy seven souls 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.360 that were killed taken from us on that day. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.880 The people who were going in that day, like your 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.920 brother Stephen, when they got that call, when they heard that. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.760 I mean, I remember I walked. I was working in 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.040 Chicago at the time, and I took a train to 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.640 a bus to my building and I get off and 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.200 I go up to my building and they were just 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.960 cops surrounding and they're like, you can't come in here. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.600 This is you know, We've secured it. You're leaving, go home. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.440 And I remember thinking, the heck, what are you talking about? 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.680 You know, because you didn't have smartphones, you didn't know everything. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.720 It wasn't the detail wasn't right in front of you. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.880 And even getting on that bus and I'm turning on 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.000 the radio and hearing the tower has fallen, my mind 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.079 could could not comprehend what that meant. You know, you can't. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.160 You don't see it, you're hearing it. What did those 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.680 people think that they were going to when your brother 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.360 rushed off? What did they think compared to what they saw? 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.480 I know exactly what they thought they were going to. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.160 And I know this because I've spoken to so many 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:08.520 firefighters that survived that day, and I have accounts of 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:14.439 them saying goodbye, now, I'll see you later when they 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.000 were going in those buildings. And you have to know this, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:23.240 and America shall never forget this, that those firefighters knew 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.239 there was a strong possibility that that was the last. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.400 Moments they were going to live. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.800 So did they know that, well, they my brother know 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.880 that when he was running through the through the Brooklyn 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.240 Battery tunnel with his fire year on his back, you 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.640 know when he made that decision. No, did he know 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.600 when he went up to West Street and then when 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.200 he finally got to these. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.120 To the towers, Yes, no doubt about it. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.680 Because at that point people were already imagine, faced with 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.600 this choice, the people above the fire line, and I 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.560 have to say this because it's a reality check for everybody, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.360 the people above the fire line, which my heart breaks for, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.320 they were faced with two choices to burn or to jump, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.280 And it was so sad to watching it. And if 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.000 you're there, these firefighters that were there on the ground 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:20.480 were seeing this happening. At this point, they knew it 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.480 was hell on earth at that moment, but they brought 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:31.120 such grace and courage and heroism to that day. I 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.400 look at that day as one of the greatest acts 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:40.400 of love ever that all those firefighters and police offers 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.040 is and everyday people like Wells Crowd, the men of 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.200 the Red bandann Are, and so many other stories that 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.560 they went in there to save people knowing there's a 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.160 strong possibility they were going to give up their lives, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.640 and so many of them did, and so many of 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.920 them did so. To answer your question, yeah, they knew 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.880 what they get what they were getting into. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.720 Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:10.240 the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I think we see those pictures 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.720 like the Falling Man, and it's interesting now because you know, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.320 my kids, they didn't live through this, and we were there, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.320 My sister was in New York City and we were 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.520 watching all of this happen, and it's just so exactly 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.800 what you said, So powerful to think that they faced 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.920 a decision and they chose that because the other was 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.360 so horrific, knowing that there was no way out. But 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.400 I think we also see those pictures of like the 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.080 woman who was covered in dust walking down downtown, just 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.360 kind of aimlessly walking. And I remember my sister saying 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.760 that that happened all day long. She just saw people 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.559 walking from ground zero up to up North in Manhattan, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.000 just kind of aimlessly with their their briefcase covered in 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.480 that dust. She was an an. She went back and 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.920 she was doing pro bono work getting people signed in 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.640 and getting information from people. And she said, I can 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:13.240 remember at the time sitting down at ground zero and 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.080 she said, from the time it took me to fill 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.120 out one person's form, I would have to push all 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.880 the dust off and move to the next form. Because 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.520 even even weeks after the dust was falling, A lot 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.920 of people have been sick since then and they've and 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.200 you support those people as well, because a lot of 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.960 these people have gone through, these people that were heroes 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.400 and just people that lived down there. I mean, we 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.240 really didn't know what the impact of this was. We've 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.160 never experienced anything like this in the history of the 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.760 country before. What is it like for those people now? 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.640 And how do you support those people that have gotten 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.280 this illness that is kind of this mysterious illness that 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.040 they've many people have been sick in different ways from 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:55.840 nine to eleven. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.960 Well, so once again for your listeners to know that 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.400 tunnel to Twis Foundation, who I'm proud to say I'm 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:04.760 the CEO chairman of. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.840 Takes care of every. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.320 Cop, every firefighter, every first responder in America who dies 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.320 in the line of duty, has young children left behind. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.320 We're going to deliver them a mortgage free home. If 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:17.960 they don't have a home, we're going to find them 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.720 at home. And if they do have home, and most 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.319 of them do, we're going to pay off their mortgage. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.400 We do that for gold Star widows, and we built 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.079 especially adapted smart homes for our country's most catastrophically injured 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:35.320 service members. But after nine to eleven, so many these 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.080 great heroes that were on that freaking pile looking for 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:45.000 their brothers and their loved ones or just everybody who 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.760 was missing. Because over you know, there was two thousand 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.319 and nine and seventy seven, as I mentioned. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.640 Before, people died that day. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.080 There was alose, so I think it's twelve hundred plus 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.080 that were never recovered. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.000 They were there trying to find them. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.400 The police officers, firefighters, people came from all over the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:11.240 United States. Your sister was there, Your sister had that 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.800 dust coming on them, and they were all told not 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:15.280 to worry. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.720 Get pat it well. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:21.320 Let me tell you, there's over the two hundred, three 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:27.200 hundred and three hundred and thirty eighth firefighter who died 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.240 of nine to eleven illnesses just died the other day. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.800 There's been over three hundred police officers who have died 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.120 of nine to eleven illnesses. And if they have a 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.080 young family left behind, because we're a first responder to 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.680 this foundation, we're going to take care of their families. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.200 We're going to pay off their mortgages. I have a 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:51.240 friend of mine who I just visited just the other day, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.400 Ace Candlon Mike Candon. But he was Ace to me 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.720 growing up. We've been friends for sixty four years, all right, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.720 since we've been since we've six years old, first grade. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.000 And his job he worked for Otis Elevator. His job 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.200 was to go in after nine to eleven and clean 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.640 out the soot inside the elevators. Chefs and now he 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.040 wore all the apparatus and everything. But it doesn't matter, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.280 just like we know, masks doesn't matter, right, you know 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.640 for other things. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:24.120 Like cook and he wore the you know, he's dying. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:30.480 He's he's moments away from dying of nine to eleven 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.880 cancer because of what he Inhaled and what it's gone 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.600 through his body. It just keeps on taking so many people. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.520 It's the terrorist attack that keeps on killing. I know 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.520 that those who did this are smiling when that happens, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.240 and that's what we have to remember what we're up against. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.320 Always that they would love to do this again. They 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.960 would love to instead of killing. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.760 They'd love as many zeros after that number that we 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.280 give twenty nine hundred and seventy seven. If they put 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.800 another zero on that, they would have been happier, and 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.200 another zero they'd even been more happy. So this is 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.520 what we're up against, and that's why we can't forget. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.760 We just can never forget that we are always going 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.400 to be under assault and we have to always protect 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:18.200 our country. One last point here on that since nine 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.360 to eleven, over seven thousand men and women have died 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.600 protecting us, so we didn't have to have another nine eleven. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.280 And so many bad things have happened obviously in Afghanistan, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.880 and withdrawal, all that kind of stuff sickens me, sickens me, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.320 and all those families had to see that they lost 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.440 their loved ones. And this is how you're gonna come 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.360 out of there. And and all the good. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:44.800 Work that we were doing there. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.520 But we got to remember those families that are left 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.080 behind too, because they're part of all part of nine 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.560 to eleven, because we wouldn't gone a war if it 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.760 wasn't for nine to eleven. And that's why our foundation 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.120 takes care of all these gold Saw families that have 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.440 given their lives, the loved ones, given their lives for 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.159 our country and have young families, and a lot of 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.600 them don't have houses because they move from base to 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.840 base or whatever you know, may be and in their military. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.600 And that's why we build them, you know, a gold 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.840 a widow and their children a mortgage free home. And 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.080 we're so proud of the work that would do. We're 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.320 connected with our military because of what happened on nine 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.960 to eleven. First respond the same mentality anyway, the courage, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.480 the heroism is incredible. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.760 You have so much support. You say, I mean, you're 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.360 passionate about this stuff, and you're passionate about the mistakes 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.040 that were made in Afghanistan. You've come out and you've 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.520 you've been very open about how you feel about this stuff. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.080 After nine to eleven, there was like this great uniting 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.480 in the country like we've really not seen in decades. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.119 The country came together. There were people that were just 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.879 pro America. Whatever it is, We're going to support America. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.080 And I think that when when it comes to Tunnel 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.920 to Towers, you still see that you've phraised over five 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.800 hundred million to support heroes and their families. And that 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.760 isn't coming from just one side that comes fro. I mean, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.640 I've seen you with celebrities, I've seen you with all 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.920 kinds of people from different backgrounds who are just like, look, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.679 this is what we do. We support our heroes. How 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.560 do you keep that going? How in this world that 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.359 seems so divided right now? How do you keep that going? 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.479 I love it, but I just what is that magic 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:32.800 that you can keep that going? 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.680 Well, you know, it's great that you mentioned that because 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.399 I got to tell you, I am around great Americans 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.400 all the time. I am so blessed. It's incredible. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.160 And they come to us. 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.639 You mentioned some of the celebrities you know, like Wohlberg, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.080 Cole House. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:53.840 Rob Load and It's Quay. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.960 You know, it's incredible. They come to us because they 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.680 want to help and they believe in our mission. And 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.480 you know, whether they believe in our mission. It's very simple. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.719 Who couldn't believe and take care of these great families 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.600 are left behind? I think almost every American would believe 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.960 in that. I mean there's some crazies out there that 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.440 you know that I think America is terrible, you know, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.720 shame on that. I mean, meanwhile, they live, they have 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.119 no idea, they live in the they take advantage of 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.879 everything that these our freedoms are given to us because 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.480 of these men and women who put it all on 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.640 the life for us every single day. But that's that's 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.520 the beauty of America. But yes, I'm around it all 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:37.880 the time. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.560 And you know, so people do what they can do. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.600 We ask everybody to do eleven dollars a month. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.639 I mean, most people can do that and they know 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.960 that ninety five point one percent of every dollar that 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.560 they donate those to our you know, to our programs. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.160 I think that's important because I think most people don't 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.280 know that sometimes you can give money and that money 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.560 you're just giving a small portion of that money, but 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.920 you're talking about ninety five cents on every dollar is 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.119 actually going to these families, going to the mission. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.400 Right, It's not going in my pocket. That's for sure, 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.000 I don't get paid. I'm proud of that. I'm a volunteer. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.520 I have tens and tens of thousands of volunteers all 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:20.320 across America. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.480 We have I think one hundred golf outings put on 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.120 for us this year. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.960 David Wells, he's a pitcher, was a pitcher for the Yankees, 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:32.280 and while he joined a baseball player who's almost like 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.440 a Hall of Fame play for nineteen years. These guys 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.960 are putting on these celebrity golf outings and different golf 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.119 outings for us and raising so much money. But we 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.760 have over one hundred golf oundings. We have over nearly 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.399 one hundred runs and climbs all over the United States, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.320 and people can emulate what my brother did that day 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.440 and what so many other heroes did that day. But 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:58.200 we have three thousand events, three thousand events. The people 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.880 at dinner or you know, some kind of a small fundraise. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.360 I love the little kids that come. I can't tell 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.080 you how many times I see a ten year old 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.480 kid or a fifteen year old kid or whatever that 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.960 did a fundraise and gives us a check for six 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.800 hundred dollars or eleven hundred dollars It means so much 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.040 to me and one of the reasons why I'm so 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.200 proud that we have the nine to Eleven Institute. 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:20.040 On our website. 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.440 You go to T two T and just you'll see 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:28.360 we have we have kids for classes for K through 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.879 twelve that a curriculum that you could just press a 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.879 button and prints out what you can teach your class. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.720 We have teachers that downloaded every single day. 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.760