Episode 87 - Never Forget.
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Summary
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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A great nation never forgets its heroes, its triumphs, or its pain.
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I think often of that dark yet beautiful morning,
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standing silent with hundreds in the university student union at Florida State.
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Young, ambitious men and women who almost never stay quiet or still, frozen in shock.
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I know of some on that Tallahassee campus on September 11, 2001,
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who would die fighting the global war on terror so the rest of us could live free and safe.
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I also remember driving at night on Interstate 10 from patriotic Niceville, Florida, back to Tallahassee,
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this time not for the libraries and ladies of FSU, though both often got my attention in my university days,
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but for my own service as a state representative.
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Later I would meet Rob O'Neill, a friend and patriot who pulled the trigger.
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We'd learn that as well, too worried that we might offend the Pakistanis,
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who clearly knew more than they were telling us.
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Fake friends aren't good friends, and scared leaders should never be given the chance to govern.
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Bin Laden had hoped to lead a movement, and in some ways he did.
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This is the first election in which the children born after 9-11 can vote.
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Votes are small things that, when added together, send a message.
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But there was another militia that assembled on 9-11.
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A shot heard round the world as United 93 crashed,
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far from its intended target, in a Pennsylvania field.
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The passengers that did the most American of things.
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They still pledged to one another their lives and made good on that promise.
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just as all of us pledge allegiance as we stand for the flag, the anthem, or for taps.
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There are squabbles in every family, after all.
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But because we know how hard they were won by those who lost it all.
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They didn't know one another, but they knew what had to get done.
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None of them made it out alive, but all of them are immortal in America.
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I'm confident that the same spirit that exists in all of us,
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that let's roll spirit, that sense that out of many comes one.
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Let us remember to be united in purpose in this election.
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Let us be united as we confront the radicalism,