Taking Care of NC with Representative Jeff McNeely

You know, first, Friday, we... remembered 25 years since 9-11, 2001.

To this day, I remember I was at work, I remember we had a little small black and white TV, and one of the boys come back from the mill, we have a radio in the back, It had been on the radio.

I said, hey, you need to turn TV on.

And got to see the second plane.

Oh,

yeah.

And so I'll always remember that.

You know, I sat there and I looked through all the stuff that was out there going on with all the former presidents and then with Trump and whatnot.

But, you know, the crazy thing now, 25 years have passed.

So we've got another generation out there.

And I...

I think in some instances, I don't feel like they're teaching what exactly went down that day.

I think they actually did a survey, and it was almost one-fourth of the kids surveyed kind of felt bad for Osama bin Laden and for the people that were captured and killed because of their attack on us.

And I'm like...

I don't think you get it, folks.

That's really just the second time in my mind since the Civil War, basically.

I can't think of a time other than that and Pearl Harbor when we were attacked on our own soil.

and by a foreign

enemy.

Well, you know, I kind of got that feeling a couple years ago.

I was a chaperone with my nephew's school trip up to New York, and we got to go see the memorial.

And some of the kids were like, why do we need to come see this? What's the big deal about this? And then you had my nephew, who his dad went and fought right after that attack.

So it was like completely different to him than it was to the rest of them.

Well, folks, I hope you don't ever forget it.

The generation before me reminded me of Pearl Harbor in that day.