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Author Pete Hamill discusses the importance of remembering the terrorist attacks that occurred 10 years ago.
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-- -- talking to Peter Campbell from gracious enough to stay here.
Because it's going to -- rose for about fifteen minutes.
Talking about to -- September 11 2001 I was sort of burning out of Citi.
Not to mention as -- animal that you heard it else.
Who speaks as eloquently as -- right so there's got 7000 words.
In -- Sunday edition of the New York.
Daily News about September -- and and have been some.
We all the you're you're you're you're think it's -- that we do remembered as we do him.
A because for a lot of people it appears.
That we're just contributor relive the horror spy.
Yeah I I think it it is important to remember him.
Particularly for the young who experienced it either as a television show.
Or.
As some distraction among grownups.
That it it's better for the young to.
Realize what this was about justice is still important for young people.
To understand what World War II is about.
Or was about.
Why.
People.
Still.
Talk about Pearl Harbor and and CEO and Iwo jima a lot of other places.
Because young people.
Went out and fought the war.
Then the ones who had to do special talk about civil war and still to share still talk about civil.
So.
I don't think it's.
Either sentimentality.
For a manipulation of human emotions I don't think so I think -- was genuine.
What happened to down here.
And down among the man who worked in the men and women both who.
Will work to -- revive us when we would knock down.
And it's important -- as a way of looking and what the world's about right now.
We have no we see increases answers for him the world right now it's a very complicated place.
We have enemies of all kinds.
Fewer and fewer friends.
You don't you know endear yourself to a country when it when it drone kills have to the -- family.
By mistake and it doesn't work very well for us.
But I think there was that the there were moments in the -- overriding.
Larger.
Issues.
That we should remember and there's that He we don't have to apologize for that memory.
It's not playing it's not remembering that -- beating the Yankees that list in 1955.
That's a different kind of which is our Internet which is still.
But -- I saw build and I don't that's not an -- statement -- senator.
All of that -- everything -- dramatically changed in the world.
It's not an oversimplification.
I mean I do think our country is in worse shape right now.
Not because of threats from.
-- artists are because of your guys and I go -- yeah but does the the argument between Americans attendant dysfunctional family.
If ever there was autism.
The more -- -- -- over yes.
And I wish some repelled a greater level of betrayal sense to me yet over yet who have worst in my lifetime ago.
Now because of the bitterness of this.
Which was not present in.
Those weeks and months after September 11.
We thought we thought out of changed -- nobody down there ways from Oklahoma was complaining about Easton -- They so -- -- truly it's working on the pile.
They weren't looking so shorthand.
An imaginary east.
Where you're here wire downtown number oh yeah prominent we would that I was down -- first at the tweed courthouse when the first plane hit which is.
Half block from broadway's already.
It was a meeting of the museum of the city in new York and I was on the board.
And we heard -- them and them and from the courthouse came amendments at a -- just flew into the World Trade Center which is how many people got the news they thought it was a small -- but it was a beautiful day.
How -- playing get lost in -- kind of a day.
And I ran out the -- by the time I got to the corner.
This -- that second plane hit the south -- And this gigantic fireball.
Right -- -- and then it's all the way back into the building like this.
Like some -- special effect in a movie.
And that's when -- moves terrorism.
My wife who is also -- journalist.
And -- instant that you know some.
Or did you think ones but it had to be these guys because they had tried -- 93.
-- and killed six people.
I don't think the gang that couldn't bond street who took the rental car back to get the deposit.
You know these master criminals.
With -- somewhere in the Koran and must say you know.
Go back and get the deposit or there are giving -- -- and brows looked fodder for that mark a -- -- Then the.
