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America is changing. And so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere. I'm a smachhalid in Washington, D.C.
I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is the Global Story. Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Our American Stories. remembering September eleventh, 2001.
And This segment It's a tribute. To soldiers who've fallen. And this is a tribute from Tony Dolan. And if you don't know Tony Dolan, he was one of the youngest Pulitzer Prize winners in American history. for his investigation of official corruption.
an organized crime in Connecticut in Hartford. He's a legend there to this day. Death threats against him. Put a whole lot of guys. in prison.
He was the chief speechwriter for Ronald Reagan for eight years. responsible for some of the greatest rhetoric of the twentieth century. most notably the Evil Empire speech. and the ash heap of history speech. Tony's tribute originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
and is titled They Will Be Remembered. For all those who served. and he graciously recorded it for us. Let's take a listen. I heard the thump as I was saying over the phone to John Gibson at the National Security Council.
that it couldn't be an accident. Since now a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. Putting down the phone. I walked over to the window and looked out on Route 110. which runs in front of the Pentagon, construction workers Mm-hmm.
reflecting fear, even terror. We're running across this major highway like it was a They had seen the smoke pouring out from around the road. the corner where Flight 77 had hit the building. John, I'll have to call you back, I said when I got back to the the phone. I think we just got hit.
Move it to the right, said the soldier. when another soldier bent over to adjust the pedal of his wheelchair. When he saw who was helping him, a three-star general, he gulped.
Sorry, sir, for not saying sir. I'm the one who should be calling you, sir. replied the general. As he wheeled the young veteran to the assembly point for the other wounded. The soldiers were there for the first time.
of many tours of the Pentagon organized for the wounded and their families. For many, this was their first time outside the rooms and home. always at Water Reed Hospital. since their injuries.
So they had trouble handling what came next.
next. As they came around a corner, the hallway erupted with Thousands of cheering, flag-waving Department of Defense employees. Many of those in the parade of crutches and wheelchairs including family members. were overcome as they moved along. Later, One wife, sounding almost angry.
Tears told the Pentagon organizer, you should have. warned us. You should have warned us. Sir, could I ask you a question? I knew what was coming.
As the wounded toured the press briefing room, it was always the same question for the older guy in the suit. whom they thought might have some authority. No matter how many limbs were missing. or house. Serious the headwind.
They asked me. Sir, is there any way you could help me get back to my unit? Guests of honor at a Washington think tank. Dinner the two enlisted men in wheelchairs and the sergeant with a cap. looked uneasy as they waited entirely unnoticed.
at the edge of the huge crowded ballroom. The event planners were with clipboards and bugs in their ear just Rushed by. When I saw them from a distance, I maneuvered through the crowd and went up to them. They looked up at me. As I summon the words that have inspired me.
our fighting forces down the years. Gentlemen, would you like to follow me to the bar? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. was the enthusiastic response.
The crowd parted magically on our way to two beers and a gin. Later, the same crowd oozed. heard of the soldiers' battlefield exploits. After the dinner when the van arrived for the trip Back to Walter Reed. I would s see how good they were.
helping fold up their wheelchairs, put them in the middle of the middle the back And then hop along towards their seats. with a hand against the of the van, all the while thanking me for the Drinks. Hard to hear and hard to watch. The hero is Grateful Hopper, like the wife at the on parade. My reaction was a Emotional.
And I thought somebody should have warned me. Yes, as his name tag showed, the newly appointed aide to Joint Chief. Chairman Peter Pace. was the son of another well known general. In answer to my questions, he added, Nedic was also a West Point graduate.
And he listed the several stateside locations where he had been stationed. With General Pace and Secretary. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld just ahead of us as we headed towards the press. briefing room. I thought that this young officer was going to have trouble gaining the respect of fellow officers who had seen combat.
We turned the corner though And then he said, I was in Iraq too. And as I saw his empty uniform sleeve, he added, But I got hurt there. People fled the funeral service for Navy SEAL Jonas P. Kelso. as the building shook.
Reassurance during An earthquake, though, is a church full of navy seals. The squadron commander kept right on giving his eulogy. And Kelso's fam. Comrades didn't budge. Victoria Jennings.
Kelso, herself a former Marine with a tour in her. By speaking nearly unfaltering. wonderingly of her hero husband. and his belief in America. America's mission.
Outside retired Colonel Oliver North. A Vietnam veteran. Marine Comet. on PX Killy. A Vietnam veteran.
both of them friends of Victoria's father, Jerry Jennings, an administration official and a Vietnam veteran. Aren't these kids a meal? General Kelly readily agreed. That's the reason why he explained when he was recovering from an option. At Bethesda Naval Hospital.
He felt compassionate. off the deck with the Admirals, and on to the casualty score. The casualties. I think of them sometimes, those I knew, the wounded. The ones who only wanted to get back.
To their unit or left limbs on. corn soil. The ones whom generals wanted to call or commandants wanted the honor of being on their hospital. I think too sometimes of the families of the fallen. The ones whose Composure made words not inadequate but impossible.
And so I sometimes wonder where they are and how life played out. For them. If I were to see them again, I know that even if they asked, I would be reluctant to offer any thoughts on their sacrifice and its meaning. or that of those they loved. But if they asked again, if they pressed the question I know I would answer and I know what I would tell them.
that I have lived a while. And seen the verdicts of history. and though they are not always quickly rendered. But that about them. The jury's finding is already That what they did was wrong.
Right and true. Making others safe, protecting the weak, the innocent, giving others. what they would never have Had the gift of the future, the gift of tomorrow. And I would say, in doing all this, they had made themselves a part. In fact, the best part of history's great story, the American story.
And so I would tell them they will be remembered. And that was Tony Dolan. And for all of you who've served, who've lost loved ones. We don't just do these things on Memorial Day here on our American stories. 9-11.
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This is Our American Stories. remembering the anniversary of 9-11. Many companies and families lost loved ones that day. I lost one of my best friends. Co-captain of my high school basketball team for two years.
There was nothing we didn't do together. For so many years. Paul Biotini. There was one investment company that lost 658. of its nine hundred and sixty employees.
Before that day Cantor Fitzgerald, hadn't been all that well known beyond Wall Street.
However, After 9-11. It was known as the business to have lost. The most employees are 9-11. Quote We have death fame. CEO Howard Luttnick said.
A few days after the horrific event, Lutnick participated. In an emotional interview, He didn't just lose all those employees, by the way. One of them was his brother. Here he is. explaining why he wasn't there.
My little boy, I have a five-year-old, and it was his first day of kindergarten at Harris Mann, so I took him for his first day at big boys school. And uh because of that I was Late getting down to the office, and therefore, I wasn't in the building, I was on my way. I saw the building on fire, so I didn't go in. Um but I stood I stood at the door. Um or off a church street.
Um where there were flags there and I stood at the door um and people were coming out and I was yelling at them, you know, to run and get out. And uh there were police sort of around me, um, yelling at people, telling them to get out and I would ask them what floor they were coming from, what floor are they coming from.
Someone would say 55 and I'd scream, we have 55 and and because I kept wanting to get up the building and Well my brother My brother was on the 103rd floor. He worked for me. He worked at Canter and He called my sister. And he told her that He said that the smoke was pouring in. He was stuck in a corner office, there was no way out, and the smoke was coming in, and he's not good, and things are not good, and he's not going to make it.
And he just wanted to say that he loved her. Anyway, say goodbye. And uh Tell her when that. Can't you love them? And then the phone went.
before we did. The plane crashed into floors ninety three through ninety nine. Canter Fitzgerald was located right above then. 101 to 105. The top floors are the Of number one World Trade Center, which they call now the North Tower.
I got to the 91st floor, and I knew if I got one employee. What if one person came down from that floor that I know that there had to be others? There would be others behind them. There would be others going out other doors that That would be good, but I got up to 91 and then I heard this sound. It sounded like another plane was going to hit the building.
And was it, but it didn't sound like it was far away. It sounded like it was. Like right where the ceiling is above us. It was so unbelievably loud, and someone screamed out, Another one's coming.
So I just turned around and ran, and I was running. It was number two World Trade Center collapsing.
So I'm standing underneath a building like an idiot. Um and I start running. And I'm trying to get ahead of the smoke, and then the smoke comes around the corner on Trinity Church, where I ran, and knocks me down underneath a truck, and I'm sitting there in this. black, the blackest black that can ever be. I reached up, I tried to see if I could see and I took my hands and I put it up and I actually touched my eye.
I couldn't see my hand. I could feel the particles in the air. They were like this big. I could feel them going in and I couldn't think to like pick up my shirt and put it. I was just sitting there thinking, I can't believe it.
I can't believe by standing there I died.
So I just started walking. I just start walking straight. And I just walk straight. And I just keep walking straight. And I called my wife four hours later.
And she was hysterical crying and So I understand why it took lots of people a long time. I'm a pretty together person and I four hours I walked. I just walked North, I just And he just kept walking. All the Cantor Fitzgerald companies are connected by speakerphone.
So there were voices heard from the tower, Amidst the chaos Yeah, we have, you know, a speakerphone because all our offices are connected in our equity business. They were all connected to each other because they talked to each other all day. And they heard them saying, you know, we need help, we need help, we need help. It wasn't. It wasn't screams.
It was. There was nowhere to go. You couldn't go down, you couldn't go up. I just know where to go. But I don't know of a single one of my employees who got down.
Zero. zero and it's really sad but I think we're all pulling together with the view that We want to make things happen for them. We need to take care of them. We need to figure out how to take care of them, give them more. take care of them and I think It's going to be a different kind of drive than I've ever had before.
It's not about My it's not about my family. I get to kiss my kids. I get to kiss my kids tonight. But other people don't get to kiss their kids. And then I just have to help them.
And I think I think that's amazing. And I think it's amazing. You have 300 people. They lost all their friends. They lost the person to their left.
They lost the person to their right. And they call me up and they say, I want to go to work. I said, why do you want to go to work? Let's just go to funerals. And they go, no.
No, I want to go to work. I can't stay home. I can't stay home. I have to make I have to work, I have to do something. Mm, so they.
They actually monitor. Try to figure out how to be in business. It's unbelievable. It doesn't make sense. Yeah.
But The The reason they want to be in business, and there's only one reason to be in business, is because we have to make our company. be able to take care of. My 700 families? 700 families. And you have 700 families.
Can't say it. I can't say it without crying.
Well, a different kind of drive. that he'd never known before, Kicked in. To Howard Luttnick. and those remaining employees, Howard further explains what Canterfitz Gerald, who was doing before And after. Canon Fitzgerald is the primary it's like the exchange for the world's bond markets.
I mean it's it It is the exchange for the world bond markets. We last. Last year we did $50 trillion in business. today. the remaining employees of Canada Fitzgerald and East Peak.
have worked every second. Since that bomb, and they made the decision. And I told them: there's no reason for us to open. I don't care when we open, if we open, it doesn't matter to me. And they collectively.
250 of them collectively voted that we're going to open the markets. And this morning, It's 7 a.m. Those people opened for business, not to to make money, not to but they did it because They thought if the Fed and the Treasury wanted it to be open and it was important enough for them to show strength for America and for these markets, then they were going to do their damnedest to get it open, and they did. Right. I voted against it.
I said, why? I don't want you to work. I want you to go home and kiss your kids and hug your families. It's them. They wanted They wanted to do it, maybe for themselves, maybe for their friends.
they lost but So right this second, it our electronic systems are running around the world and it's I don't know. Maybe it's a miracle. Maybe it's because these people are just They're unbelievable. I think you can always be a good boss. if you have the right people.
I'm glad they chose to be with me, but I'm the saddest person in the world that they chose to be with me.
Someone would have chosen to be with me.
So many people.
So many names, so many people I loved.
So many people we all loved. Again, that's Howard Luttnick. The CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald. They lost so much. But they did go back to work.
And here's why. After 9-11, the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund was established. All those people went back to work for a cause. A big cause. They have distributed more than $180 million.
to the family of Cantor Fitzgerald, one quarter of the firm's profits. What a great American story. What a sad American story. Cantor Fitzgerald Story Howard Luttnick's story here On our American Stories, 9-11-11. Remembered.
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doctor Mike McGee is the author of All Available Boats, which is about Manhattan's trains and bridges shutting down on 9 eleven, and the heroic evacuation of 300,000 people off of the island by boats that happened to be in the area. It was a larger evacuation than Dunkirk. and it was executed by a wide variety of boats that answered the call for help. from pleasure boats to tugboats. And today Mike tells us about the Fire Department of New York's fire boats.
that bravely served that day. One of them was the John J. Harvey, which had been decommissioned. It was in 1931 the fastest, most powerful fireboat in the world. It could pump 18,000 gallons a minute.
Which was just unheard of at the time. It was named after John J. Harvey, who had died in a fire on a boat. But the interesting thing about it is that at the time of 9-11, it was completely decommissioned. But it was functional.
And the guy who actually was in charge of the John J. Harvey was an architectural preservationist who had gotten interested in saving the John Jay Harvey. This boat, which is about 130 feet long, was formally preserved and saved beginning in 1999, and Huntley Gill was the guy who raised the funds and coordinated it, and then he became the captain. He was aided by a former truck mechanic whose name was Tim Ivory, who became the chief engineer for the boat. And he just got a kick out of, you know, keeping this thing functioning.
It's a mechanical wonder. And then there was a third person named Jessica DeLong, who happened to be from Massachusetts and was a maritime historian who had gotten interested in the boat and became one of the crew members for it.
So at the time of the attack, Huntley Gill was asleep in his Manhattan apartment. Tim Ivory, who lived on a houseboat in a marina in New Jersey, on the New Jersey side, was having breakfast at a diner, and Jessica DeLong was writing a freelance article in her Brooklyn flat. Within hours, the three of them were on the boat, and the boat was on the Hudson heading south to the disaster. And the first thing they did when they arrived there was to, over a loudspeaker, address the crowd that had gathered to be evacuated. You know, the most panicky people and those who were injured in the falling of the towers immediately obviously tried to get off the south side of the island and they were all gathered there.
So at Pier 63 on the Hudson River, where the boat originated, it headed south. And the first thing it did was use a loudspeaker to tell people anybody wants to go uptown and 150 people. boarded the fireboat and they took them uptown. Then they got a call by the time they reached uptown to discharge these 150 people. They got a call to rush back because the fire trucks had already run out of water and they needed this retired John J.
Harvey to pump 18,000 gallons of water a minute to. Fill the trucks that were all out of water.
So that's what they did, and they stayed in action down there for four days. Uh Now one of the boats that was there as well was the John D. McKean fireboat. That fireboat was actually in service at the time. And it was a newer boat.
It wasn't that brand new. It had been commissioned in 1952, again named after a firefighter in 1953, actually, who had lost his life in a steam explosion on a boat. The captain, though, Ed Metcalf, this was only his second day as captain of that boat, so he had just. arrived and The second day of his command, he gets this call to come down immediately to the sea wall at Liberty Street. In fact, this was right after the first plane had hit, and the second plane had not yet hit.
They were down there within about five minutes and Metcalf got off the boat to go to the command center to see what the fire department wanted him to do next. He subsequently was lost in the turmoil and the collapse of the second building after the second plane hit, which they all saw. And that's another part of this story. Anyone who witnessed those attacks or anyone who witnessed All of the citizens covered in inches of. Dust and debris slowly walking either north out of Manhattan or south to try to be evacuated by boat.
Anyone who witnessed those images has never really forgotten those images and. When Ed Metcalfe didn't come back immediately, one of his crew members, Tom Sullivan, went to try to find out where he was, and Tom ended up. In some of the wreckage of the second building collapsing, and nearly lost his life as well. But in any case, what happened was that this boat, the John D. McKean, which is 130 feet long.
It played a major role in the evacuation and It was not designed, obviously, to transport people. In fact, these boats, the way they're designed, they need a gangplank of about 12 feet to reach. The shoreline and the shorelines down there were never designed for multiple purposes at either. I mean, one of the things that we learned from this event is that that New York Harbor area was not well designed for a disaster. You know, the people.
Who runs these boats? They talk about the commercial uses and bringing in liners and shipping containers over on the New Jersey side, but in general, It isn't a very good edge between the water and the land. For boarding human beings, not designed for that at all.
So the fact that they were able to move safely.
Somewhere between 350,000 and 500,000 people off that island in a short period of time is nothing short of a miracle. And when they moved to the middle of the city, the John D. McKean fireboat and started using it. People were panicked. The towers had just collapsed.
People thought that the entire southern tip of Manhattan was going to blow up. They didn't know what was coming next and they were panicked. And you had not simply Wall Streeters covered in dust, but you had babies and nannies and civilians who lived in the buildings around this area, all trying to get off the island. And the John D. McKean fireboat really ran into a lot of challenges in terms of children.
Their deck was about eight foot down from the loading shores and they were literally throwing some of the babies to the open arms Of these firefighters on the boat, and then the babies were taken down, and four babies. To A cot were placed, and the firemen were taking care of the babies as they were loading the nannies. In one case, A lady who was panicked actually jumped in the water and got trapped between the boat and the shore and the firefighters had to actually jump into the water and save them by throwing a plank ladder down and boosting them up. One firefighter had to dive under the water to push an exhausted lady onto the ladder.
So, this is a very chaotic situation. And so For the boat captains, who are not used to doing this kind of work, to remain calm. And to, as much as possible, protect the safety of people who were inclined to do anything at that moment. to get off the island. One of the common features of almost everyone that we interviewed was that when the boats were moving away, from the island.
And looking back, you could see initially The Twin Towers on Fire, and then they all witnessed their collapse. And then they were just gone. The thing that was most in common in every story was the extreme quietness On the boat itself, that was nothing like they had ever experienced. The solemnness. Yeah.
Everyone was deep inside themselves. And he is right about the silence. And that's the silence in New York and also in Washington, D.C. And I will bet it was the quietest time in American history. People were just shocked.
A special thanks to Monty Montgomery and Alex Cortez for the work. Dr. Mike McGee, author of All Available Boats, our 9-11 special. Here on our American stories. Stop settling for weak sound.
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