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and we were walking away from the 

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building and he said , mom look up in 

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the mommy look up in the sky and there 

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was smoke coming from the other side of 

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the building The 

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morning of 

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September 11 started like any other 

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work day . I was in the Office of the 

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Secretary of Defense , I worked on 

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resource issues for the policy 

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organization in the Defense Department . 

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I remember many things about that day , 

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I think one of the earliest things was 

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again having the sense of not knowing 

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what was happening and so opening up 

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the door to the corridor , seeing 

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people running , not sure why knowing 

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something that happened in new york , 

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knowing it was planes , but not really 

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connecting the dots In my case , 

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probably the most important thing to 

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know about September 11 is that my son , 

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my oldest child now , my only son at 

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the time was in the childcare center 

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and so I knew exactly where I needed to 

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go when I exited the building , I 

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picked him up , he's a about two years 

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old at the time and we were walking 

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away from the building and he said , 

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mom look up and then mommy look up in 

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the sky and there was smoke coming from 

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the other side of the building . You 

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know what's really remarkable about 

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September 11 , everyone in the pentagon 

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that day who was exiting did so uh they 

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were looking out for each other , they 

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did so very , very orderly way , people 

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weren't running past each other , they 

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were making sure everyone was walking 

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in the right direction in my case 

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because I knew I was going to pick up 

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my son at the child care center . I 

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remember one of my co workers as I was 

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exiting the building said , go get that 

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baby . You know , people were very much 

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looking out for their for their fellow 

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person and then after the attack , in 

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the immediate minutes after , of course , 

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you heard the stories of heroism for 

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those who were on the side of the 

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building that was hit people helping 

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other people get out of the disaster 

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area . The first responders arriving 

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very quickly on scene . 

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Mhm .