Sep 22, 2026 · 43 min · 17 segments
Silence at an airport. A phone call to a parent. The kind of day you can replay in your mind decades later. We open with honest September 11 reflections that remind us why community matters, then we…
Well, as always, DJ, I appreciate your kind words, your enthusiasm for the podcast, and really helping get this whole thing going from the get-go.
I used to be here today with my wife, and we're actually recording this thing on September 11th, so that's a full of emotions itself, but it's been a pretty stable day, 25th anniversary.
I was
sitting right here within 10 feet of where I'm sitting right now in my home when it happened.
Got him on the phone early, couldn't get him on all day, but I got him right when the first plane hit, the second one hadn't even hit, I got him on the phone.
And through some of that conversation that day, he talked about being 11 years old when Pearl Harbor was hit and things, his recollections of that day.
So it was an emotional rollercoaster of a day for me, but it is what it is, and we are here as strong as a country and that's what we have to remain i
hard for me to follow i could follow anything but one of the reasons why everybody on that day families became more significant and more relevant because that tragedy happened and it made us really catalog and count all of our blessings and for a lot of people unfortunately a lot of their losses too
so you're calling
your dad was an unusual But one of the things that did make it a little bit unusual was that your dad was from that Northern Virginia area, not how many miles from the Pentagon.
That was one of my first concerns was I know he was far enough away, I don't know, 12 miles from the Pentagon, I think is what it is, maybe 14.
And he was born and raised there and lived there his whole life in Northern Virginia.
Well, as always, DJ, I appreciate your kind words, your enthusiasm for the podcast, and really helping get this whole thing going from the get-go.
I used to be here today with my wife, and we're actually recording this thing on September 11th, so that's a full of emotions itself, but it's been a pretty stable day, 25th anniversary.
I was
sitting right here within 10 feet of where I'm sitting right now in my home when it happened.
Got him on the phone early, couldn't get him on all day, but I got him right when the first plane hit, the second one hadn't even hit, I got him on the phone.
And through some of that conversation that day, he talked about being 11 years old when Pearl Harbor was hit and things, his recollections of that day.
So it was an emotional rollercoaster of a day for me, but it is what it is, and we are here as strong as a country and that's what we have to remain i
hard for me to follow i could follow anything but one of the reasons why everybody on that day families became more significant and more relevant because that tragedy happened and it made us really catalog and count all of our blessings and for a lot of people unfortunately a lot of their losses too
so you're calling
your dad was an unusual But one of the things that did make it a little bit unusual was that your dad was from that Northern Virginia area, not how many miles from the Pentagon.
That was one of my first concerns was I know he was far enough away, I don't know, 12 miles from the Pentagon, I think is what it is, maybe 14.
And he was born and raised there and lived there his whole life in Northern Virginia.
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