2026 09 08 Recording part 2

Okay, I'll try to make this short, but meaningful.

Can you all think of a time when you heard some information, or you were involved in something, and it made you super happy, or it made you super sad or frightened, and so every year when that Time comes around again.

You relive it in some way, kind of like what you were saying with your mom, right? Okay, well, I don't think you guys know this, but I had that experience during 9-11.

And my words to you today are to not forget what happened at 9-11.

I was teaching high school at 5.

I was getting ready to go to high school, teach high school, at 5.30 in the morning.

when I'm listening to the news and the World Trade Center was bombed.

My heart dropped to my stomach because my daughter worked at the World Trade Center and she worked there every single morning.

She was 20 years old at the time.

She went to school at 4.30 in the morning.

That's when they opened and she would get out at 8.30 and then go to her college classes.

So, of course, I'm on the phone trying to call her, you know, And I didn't get a response.

And, you know, that just made it a million times worse.

And I said, I kept calling, kept praying.

And I finally got, she answered the phone.

And she sounded like she was out of it.

And I go, are you okay? Are you okay? And she goes, I'm fine.

I go, did you hear what happened? She goes, no.

And I'm, you know, I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And she said what had happened to her was she had an asthma attack in the middle of the night.

And she ended up in the emergency room.

So she couldn't go to work that morning.

And so she was home sleeping when all this happened.

So that had a tremendous impact on me in a lot of different ways.

And what is so hard to understand is she lost many friends.