08/03/2026
I lived in New York when I was younger.
We visited the city occasionally. I remember looking down from the observation deck in the original World Trade Centers. The cars looked like ants and the people were almost nonexistent from that height.
Flash forward to Sept 11, 2001.
I was sleeping getting ready to go in for my college class. I was awakened by a phone call, it was my Aunt. She was frantically asking, āWhere is your dad?!ā I lived in Texas at the time, but my father worked at the Pentagon (which was also hit). Thankfully, he wasnāt at work.
She told me to turn on the news. I sat in my room as a 19 year old glued to the TV in disbelief. I remembered watching the second plane hit the South Tower, firefighters running towards the danger, the sound of jumpers meeting their fate, then both towers collapsing as news coverage streamed live. Americans ran for their lives as alarms chimed, papers fell from the sky, debris & toxic soot roared through the streets like a tidal wave.
Phone lines quickly became jammed across the country as we watched the NY skyline forever changed. From that moment forward we as Americans lived in a Post 9/11 America. Heartbroken but not destroyed. Americans were unified from coast to coast. šŗšøā„ļøš¤š
It was the first time since Pearl Harbor we were attacked on American soil to that extent but it didnāt just happen to Americans. It happened all over the world, and with every attack, the same saying seemed to be attached, āAllah Akbarā.
Theyāll cry āIslamophobiaā but donāt buy that nonsense. Thats a just a made up term strategically created to play to the hearts of empaths while victim shaming those who have a realistic fear of a very real enemy walking amongst us. Itās not a phobia itās self preservation. Never Forget.
*The last two slides are clips from Nate Friedman heās been doing incredible journalism covering what happening in America.
He has a YouTube channel (The Nate Friedman Show) where you can view all his latest projects.
