The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 11, 2020


Episode 87 - Never Forget.

Topics
United Passengers
Hosted by
Matt Gaetz
Mentioned
Bin Laden Rob O'Neill Joe Biden
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

145.05

Word count

491

Sentence count

38

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Learn English with Matt Gaetz. In this speech, Matt talks about the impact of 9/11, and why he believes the children born after that day should be able to vote in the 2020 election. He also speaks about the heroes who lost their lives on that day, and how they are immortal in America.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:02.360 A great nation never forgets its heroes, its triumphs, or its pain.
00:00:08.180 Never forget.
00:00:09.560 I think often of that dark yet beautiful morning,
00:00:12.900 standing silent with hundreds in the university student union at Florida State.
00:00:18.320 Young, ambitious men and women who almost never stay quiet or still, frozen in shock.
00:00:25.480 I know of some on that Tallahassee campus on September 11, 2001,
00:00:31.680 who would die fighting the global war on terror so the rest of us could live free and safe.
00:00:38.680 I also remember driving at night on Interstate 10 from patriotic Niceville, Florida, back to Tallahassee,
00:00:46.880 this time not for the libraries and ladies of FSU, though both often got my attention in my university days,
00:00:53.960 but for my own service as a state representative.
00:00:58.120 Bin Laden had been killed.
00:01:00.720 Later I would meet Rob O'Neill, a friend and patriot who pulled the trigger.
00:01:05.920 He got the job done, as Americans do. 1.00
00:01:10.000 Joe Biden was opposed to the mission.
00:01:12.320 We'd learn that as well, too worried that we might offend the Pakistanis,
00:01:17.600 who clearly knew more than they were telling us.
00:01:20.160 Fake friends aren't good friends, and scared leaders should never be given the chance to govern.
00:01:27.840 Bin Laden had hoped to lead a movement, and in some ways he did.
00:01:32.600 But we lead a country, an enduring people.
00:01:36.960 This is the first election in which the children born after 9-11 can vote.
00:01:42.560 Votes are small things that, when added together, send a message.
00:01:46.420 Bin Laden didn't have the power of a republic. 0.93
00:01:50.940 He had a low-tech, low-grade militia.
00:01:54.100 But there was another militia that assembled on 9-11.
00:01:58.300 It, too, took its shot.
00:01:59.900 A shot heard round the world as United 93 crashed,
00:02:03.760 far from its intended target, in a Pennsylvania field.
00:02:07.600 It is to them I turn my attention.
00:02:09.820 The passengers that did the most American of things.
00:02:14.160 They took a vote.
00:02:14.940 They still pledged to one another their lives and made good on that promise.
00:02:21.020 They pledged allegiance to one another,
00:02:23.300 just as all of us pledge allegiance as we stand for the flag, the anthem, or for taps.
00:02:30.480 These are the things we do together.
00:02:33.300 We do them together not because they are easy.
00:02:36.120 There are squabbles in every family, after all.
00:02:39.140 But because we know how hard they were won by those who lost it all.
00:02:43.760 The United Passengers were united.
00:02:47.260 They didn't know one another, but they knew what had to get done.
00:02:51.020 None of them made it out alive, but all of them are immortal in America.
00:02:55.480 I'm confident that the same spirit that exists in all of us,
00:03:00.440 that let's roll spirit, that sense that out of many comes one.
00:03:06.300 Let us remember to be united in purpose in this election.
00:03:10.560 Let us be united as we confront the radicalism,
00:03:15.060 the violence, the chaos, the anti-Americanism,
00:03:18.640 the socialism that would destroy our country.
00:03:21.360 And let's go get them.