There was a sentence in my conversation with John Salerno that stayed with me. He talked about the firefighters, police officers, and first responders who entered the World Trade Center on September 11th knowing there was danger above them and people they did not know waiting somewhere inside. There was no guarantee of an ending. There was a job to do. John would later participate in rescue and recovery, lose friends and coworkers, and watch that mission eventually become something far different—saying goodbye.
Twenty-five years later, that distinction matters. September 11th is rightfully remembered for what was taken from this country, but embedded inside that terrible day were thousands of individual decisions to help another human being. John had already spent years in EMS, the NYPD, and the fire service, so he understood that instinct personally: somebody is hurt, somebody is trapped, somebody needs you, you move. Tomorrow, as America marks 25 years since 9/11, I want to honor the men and women who moved. The ones who came home. The ones who didn't. And the families who have carried both ever since.
Listen to my conversation with John Salerno and hear September 11th through the voice of a man who was part of the work that followed.
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