9.9 Washington Wednesday: Betting the midterms on Trump

0:00Good morning. Republicans gather in Dallas for a presidential style convention for the midterm, going all in on the president's ability to turn out voters. Turning out Republicans and turning out Democrats will talk it over with Hunter Baker on Washington Wednesday. Also, today World Tour, a crisis of censorship in the UK, and later. When I woke that wall, I see a lot of names. Like, I remember I haven't drink with that guy. I remember her. At the 9-11 Memorial in New York, remembering the people behind the names on the wall, and World Commentator Cal Thomas, remembering the lessons of 9-11. It's Wednesday September 9th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported world radio. I'm Mary Rykard. And I'm Nick Einker. Good morning. Up next, Kent Coutinton with today's news.

1:02The US military says it has destroyed five more Iranian oil tankers. US Central Command says Iran fired ballistic missiles at a navy warship twice this week. Those missiles did not find their mark. American forces then struck four tankers in the Gulf of Oman in one near Iran's main oil port at Carg Island. Central Command says it first ordered the crews to abandon ship, Secretary of State, enacting national security adviser Marco Rubio. The back and forth is pretty straightforward and that is that Iran continues to try to hit US naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers. That makes eight Iranian tankers in four days. Iranian state media says Iran answered by firing missiles at American bases in Jordan. The Pentagon has not confirmed that. The renewed fighting has sent energy prices higher, brand-crued nearly hit $100 per barrel on Tuesday, the highest since late July. Voters in New Hampshire cast primary ballots on Tuesday, World's Benjamanika reports.

2:05In the US Senate primary, Republicans picked John E. Sununu, whose brother and father both served as governor of the state. Sununu had President Trump's endorsement and soundly defeated former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown, who is running for a seat in New Hampshire, which he now calls home. Democrats chose Congressman Chris Papis for the US Senate seat that retiring Gene Shaheen is giving up. Papis defeated Kourishma Mansour, who is favored by the party's socialist wing. She ran on government-run healthcare and cutting off military aid to Israel. And GOP governor Kelly A. Ott cruised to the nomination in her reelection bid. For World UnBenjamanika. President Trump stood on the grass at the ellipse near the White House Tuesday, next to a large steel beam cut from the wreckage of the World Trade Center's South Tower after 9-11. This battered piece of steel here today on the ellipse is a reminder that Americans bless with a

3:06strength no fire can consume, no evil can conquer, and no terror can destroy. The tunnel to Towers Foundation brought the beam. The group takes its name from Steven Siller, an e.g. firefighter who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel on foot, gear on his back to reach the towers that morning, giving his life to save others. Friday, 25 years to the day that beam goes back through that same tunnel. And Trump on Tuesday, posthumously awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom to Wells Crowther. He died in the South Tower at the age of 24 after leading people to safety and running back into the building to save more. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. We will never forget. Those we lost and we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001. Trump will mark the 25th anniversary of 9-11 on Friday at the Pentagon. The head of NATO is calling for member states to step up their financial support of Ukraine.

4:08Secretary General Mark Ruta on Tuesday said Ukrainian allies had recently pledged the equivalent of about $80 billion to help Kiev and its war against Russia, but he says it's not enough. Nations must dig deeper. We do not have a choice, I believe. And US Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby added that NATO allies must be prepared to dig in for the long haul. As you all well know, Russia is reconstituting its forces and its defense industrial capacity. We must be prepared for a protractive conflict and for Ukraine's requirements to persist in the months and years ahead. But there were some possible signs on Tuesday of some progress toward ending the war. The GOD, the President Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin by phone yesterday. He said Trump told Putin that he wanted a swift end to the war and a complete restoration of relations between Washington and Moscow. As Bokzman said, both leaders agreed that outcome could have enormous trade and economic benefits for both countries. The White House has not

5:11publicly commented on the discussion. The US Marshall's service in Ohio just carried out what it calls the largest missing child operation in state history. World's Kristen Flavin has that story. Federal Marshalls found 79 missing children across Ohio. The operation ran throughout August in several cities. Some of the children were as young as six. Authorities say they had gone missing for a variety of reasons, suspected sex trafficking, abuse, and running away. Officers pulled a 13-year-old girl out of a crawl space under a bedroom closet floor. They found her missing older sister later that day at a restaurant. Intelito deputies found a 16-year-old girl with a grown man. Marshalls say she was previously reported as a trafficking victim. Officials say counselors and caseworkers are now working with the children. For World, I'm Kristen Flavin. Federal investigators have been walking a runway at Miami International Airport where a fatal crash occurred. The airport does not

6:14have so-called a-restor beds. Those are crushable pads meant to stop runaway planes from overshooting the runway, just as a Boeing 767 cargo plane did on Sunday. Investigators are trying to determine if that kind of safety feature could have prevented five deaths when the jet struck a van on a road just beyond the runway. National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Hammondy said that a van was owned by a professional ocean service corporation, which is a contract cleaning company for the airlines. In the van were seven persons on board. The pilot and co-pilot are out of the hospital, as of Tuesday, to other people who are still in critical condition. Investigators have both flight recorders and are already reading the data. The safety board says two of Miami's four runways will remain closed until investigators finish at the scene. I'm Kent Cuffington and coming up, threats to free speech in the United Kingdom, plus one woman's work to keep the memory of 9-11

7:20victims alive. This is The World and Everything In It. It's Wednesday, September 9th, so glad to have you along for today's edition of The World and Everything In It. Good morning. I'm Mary Rygard. And I'm Nick Einker. Time now for Washington Wednesday. President Trump scheduled to speak tonight at the 2026 Republican Convention in Dallas. Vice President Vance members of the Cabinet, Republican leadership and candidates all slated to take the stage over the next two days. Hunter Baker is standing by, but first we have worlds Mary Muncie in Dallas with a preview. Mary? Good morning. The convention center is covered in red, white and blue and surrounded by barricades. In some places, stretching almost a mile from the American Airlines Center. Republican politicians and thousands of supporters are expected here later

8:25today. The GOP will take the opportunity to highlight tax relief and economic policy changes made so far during Trump's second term. Other issues the party wants to highlight going into the midterms include efforts to root out fraud, health care affordability, border security and trade policy. About 100 leaders and candidates are expected to take the stage on Wednesday and Thursday. President Trump will make remarks both nights. Vice President Vance will give the Thursday night keynote address. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson will also be here as well as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney General Todd Blanch and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Some Republican candidates have opted out of the convention and four House Democrats will head to Dallas to offer counter programming. Reporting for World, I'm Mary Muncie in Dallas, Texas. All right and joining us now is political scientist and world opinions contributor Hunter Baker. Hunter's a senior fellow for Civic Renewal and Religious Liberty at First Liberty Institute.

9:27Hunter, good morning. Good morning. Well Hunter issue one, Trump is not on the ballot but Trump's on the ballot. Now as you heard and as you know Republicans are staging this presidential style convention designed to make a midterm feel like a Trump election. Do you think that solves the turnout problem or just advertises that they have one? I think that people on the Republican side are of different minds on this issue. I'm sure that some of them think that holding this sort of unusual midterm convention can help get Trump voters to the ballot. As he said and one runoff, I need you to pretend like I'm on the ballot. He is trying to get his voters out who are viewed as lower propensity midterm voters. But then there would be another side who would say, hey Trump is the problem because his approval rating is low right now 40 percent or lower. And so those

10:30folks might think that it would be better to let those midterm candidates sort of make their own way. So that's really the question is, is this sort of big Trump event going to actually drive turnout or is it going to remind people of what they're unhappy about? You know, I'm interested in this idea of nationalizing the midterms. Now Democrats want that too because nobody motivates Democrats like President Trump does. But Hunter, do you think Republicans can nationalize the enthusiasm without nationalizing the blame? In other words, can they turn a referendum on their own record into a choice between two futures? I think that what Trump and the Republicans really need is progress with regard to Iran and the price of oil. As it stands right now, everybody in the country is well over $3 a gallon. And if you go out west, you know people are probably up around $7 a gallon. And discussions about what happens if the machines have to register

11:35something like $10 a gallon. So that's what's got to change. The American public has consistently punished politicians when that price gets high. And so that's the biggest thing that's going to happen. Now, they're going to have this convention. They're going to talk about the things that have been done. And there are a lot of positives that can be discussed, such as with regard to immigration, notwithstanding the ice controversies. The simple truth is that they have gotten control of the border and they are doing a much better job with that issue. But the simple fact is voters are always more interested in the future than they are in the past. And that's the case that Trump and the Republicans have to make. All right. We'll issue two, Hunter, the Vance doctrine Thursday night. That belongs to Vice President Vance. That may give this a feel of a more traditional convention with a sort of changing of the guard at the end. Do you see it that way that the Vance speech is kind of the first major foray into 2028?

12:37I would say don't let Donald Trump hear you say that. I think that he is. I don't think he listens. He is not ready. He is not ready to turn over the reins to JD Vance. And if I understand correctly, Trump was originally going to speak on one night of this midterm convention and now is going to headline both nights, completely unwilling to be upstaged or even possibly upstaged by anyone. Well, we've also seen the beginning of what a Vance agenda might look like. One policy draft would let some income qualified married couples receive child care aid when one parent works outside the home for money and the other stays home. We heard some about this last week. Now, separately, Vance is asking Congress for tougher verification and fraud controls in Medicaid and food stamps. So it's this idea of using federal money aimed at strengthening families, but also policing public aid aggressively. Now, does that add up to a governing philosophy or just a coalition shopping list or maybe it's something in between?

13:41I think that these two things actually can go together. I want to take that second issue first, the issue of fraud. I think that I think that people can all agree that if you're going to have entitlements, then you want to protect the use of that money. So it should be kind of an 80-20 issue for somebody like Vance to say that what I really want to make sure is that the people who receive the money are actually entitled to get it specifically that they're American citizens or that they meet other eligibility requirements. Now, this second thing, this other thing about the married couples receiving child care aid to incentivize one parent stay home. I know that they're probably thinking in many cases about women, but obviously both could apply. This is something that intuitively sounds like it would work that maybe you get a better situation where people can stay home with

14:41their child and raise them. Then maybe people have more babies and maybe that takes us away from some of the population decline problem that we're having. But what I have to say is that so far similar programs in other countries have not been very successful. It turns out that people pretty much do what they want to do and they don't respond terribly well to financial incentives when it comes to family formation. All right, we'll move out of the convention mode here for issue 300, what 9-11 left behind Friday marks 25 years since the attacks of September 11th. We will have more on the 9-11 remembrance later in this program as well as tomorrow. And of course, I'll talk to John Stone's treat on Friday day of. But there is a political dimension I'd like to talk about. And Jerry Sybe of the Wall Street Journal kind of made a counterintuitive argument. His was that the extraordinary unity we saw after 9-11 also helped to sow the seeds of America's present political division.

15:48Do you think he's right and why or why not? I do think that he's right. I remember after 9-11 happened and George W. Bush just flourished in that moment of challenge. He suddenly became significantly more capable of connecting with voters and projecting kind of a spirit of unity and national confidence. And that lasted for a while. And it was pretty great to see not just for political reasons, but I can just remember sort of that community spirit that I saw building and and it seemed like people were really coming together after a deeply partisan period after that very tightly fought election of 2000. But what happened is is that in the 2002 midterms, the Republicans defied all of those usual expectations of the president's party losing seeds and they gained

16:50seeds and they gained strength. And I think that the Democrats decided, okay, it's time not to play nice. We've got to oppose this guy. And I'm not attacking anyone. This is the logic of politics. You don't want the other team to win. And unity was the price that was paid. Okay, time for the lightning round. Okay, brutal exclusive in the Wall Street Journal based on leaks out of Senator John Fetterman's office. The story portrays Fetterman as resisting some of the most basic work of his office. Former AIDS are furious. The editorial page argues that the knives are really out because of his support for Israel. Can both things be true? Yeah, it's easy for both things to be true. There are many senators and other office holders where their staff are unhappy with them or they think that they're lazy or they don't like some of their habits. But typically, they stay quiet about that because that's understood to be the role. But what's happening is is that he's being attacked especially because of his support for Israel, which stands out like a sore

17:51thumb in today's Democratic Party. All right, Iran's oil dollars are starting to dry up under the American blockade. Do you think that President Trump finally found the pressure point he should have been using all along? I think all the indicators are that they finally have found the pressure point that Iran is getting much, much less revenue from the oil. And the problem is is that he relented back in June when he thought that a deal might be made. And I think it's cost him time that he really needed. Here's another journal story, coffee with comrades. So this one says young socialists are recruiting through coffee gatherings, softball, potlucks, karaoke, and a promise of belonging. So what do you say to that? Is the right winning the argument, but losing the clubhouse? I need to be emphatic about this. The right has one in the argument. It's that nobody understands that they've won the argument. Socialism is dead. Socialism as socialism is dead. They do not any longer want to own the means of production

18:54and be responsible for all that stuff. What they want to do is they want to be parasitic upon a capitalistic economy and redistribute accordingly. So socialism lost, but yes, the word is being used in a different way now. And a lot of young people are excited and they're finding meaning in sort of new political possibilities involved with heavier redistribution. Socialism is dead. So those are zombies. Is that what you're saying? All Marxists are zombies. Okay. Hunter Baker is a senior fellow for Civic Renewal and Religious Liberty at the First Liberty Institute. Thank you, Hunter. Thank you. Additional support comes from Ambassadors Impact Network, offering growth stage Christian entrepreneurs funding and support for Mission Aligned Investors. AmbassadorsImpact.com

19:57And from Ridge Haven Camp and Retreat Centers in North Carolina and Iowa. Fall registration at Ridge Haven dot org. Coming up next on the world and everything in it, world tour. This week a free speech organization in the UK called Big Brother Watch released chilling statistics. Tens of thousands have been arrested in the UK for speech-related violations. Critics are calling it a crisis of censorship as the UK attempts to control speech even outside the country. World's Emma Iker has the story. Over the last five years, more than 62,000 people were arrested for online speech offenses in the UK. About 12,000 of those have been convicted and it's a growing trend. We've seen a tenfold increase of cases of people being penalized for expressing their views about immigration. And we've seen a full-fold increase in people

21:00being penalized for expressing their opinions about Islam. That's Connie Shaw, the external affairs officer for the UK's free speech union or FSU. The group campaigns for free speech in society and government and has closely followed related lawsuits since 2020. Shaw says FSU has often represented people in court. People like Jamie Michael who posted a video in response to a 2024 stabbing spree in Southport. With a current situation, I would say that we need security on schools now at the moment. Jamie made a 12-minute video on Facebook saying we should go through the democratic and peaceful routes to lobby our politicians to take our concerns about immigration seriously. The murderer Axel Rudek-Kabana stabbed three girls and wounded ten others at a dance class. In the aftermath, authorities warned against posting on social media to prevent disinformation. Early rumors suggested Rudek-Kabana was an immigrant, but his parents emigrated to the UK from

22:01Rwanda before he was born. Here's Michael. I was concerned I have two young girls and I was concerned for their safety at schools and at the parks. A Welsh politician reported Michael's Facebook video to the police. They went to his workplace in August 2024. And then they went on to tell me that you know I published a video online that was he looked at as indecent racial hatred and I just like a little bit confused. I didn't know what video that would have been because I knew in my video. I didn't think I said anything racial at all and from there they said I was under arrest. Police held Michael in custody for 17 days. He faced up to seven years in prison for intent to stir up racial hatred. FSU represented him in court. Here's Shaw again. He pleaded not guilty and he was acquitted by a jury in 17 minutes. Shaw says America's speech laws are fairly specific. The Brandon Berg test in America means that the only speech that should be criminalised is speech that

23:06is intended unlikely to cause imminent lawless action. But in the UK the 1986 Public Order Act criminalises using threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to stir up racial, religious or sexual orientation based hatred. Many of our laws are so broad that they are being interpreted to justify arresting people for their speech. So we'd quite like to see something similar to the First Amendment in the UK. But Shaw admits that future reform is unlikely. Recently the UK extended its control of social media beyond its borders through the 2023 Online Safety Act. It was branded as essential to protect children online. The issue was from the beginning and we warned that the scope of the Online Safety Act meant that it could easily be misinterpreted to justify censoring things that people have every adults have every right to see. The UK regulator ofcom issued multiple fines against the image board for Chan

24:09for its lack of various safeguards, including not using age verification checks to block children from viewing pornography. For Chan has refused to pay the fines on grounds that it is US-based and therefore has First Amendment rights. Offcom has also launched an investigation into X based in Texas and its GROC AI chatbot. US officials recently responded to the disputes. In August, Ohio representative Michael Rooley introduced the Granite Act in Congress. It keeps US courts from recognizing any foreign judgment that might enforce censorship. Shaw says those in the UK lack those same protections and fears the erosion of freedom of speech throughout Europe. I think that the best response to ideas that one might consider harmful is more speech, not less speech. So as Charlie Kirk would say, when you stop people from talking, that's when violence begins. So I think people need to understand how important it is to protect the rights of those who you disagree with.

25:11And I think across the Western world we've forgotten how important that is. Offcom invoked sovereign immunity to block US legal action against British regulations. And it maintains that foreign countries are legally bound by the Online Safety Act, regardless of First Amendment protections. The Granite Act was referred to the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives. That's this week's World Tour. I'm Emma Eiker. Yes, stop me if you've heard this one. A bear walks into a fire station. Actually, this is no joke security video from Colorado Springs Fire Station 16 shows a black bear wandering in and nobody's around. So the bear takes his time. The video shows him looking around the station, wandering past equipment, eventually settling on something that he wanted, which was a firefighter's gearback.

26:14The video shows the bear picking it up in his mouth, turning around and casually walking right back out. Why a gearback though? What would a bear want with firefighting equipment? After considering the evidence, the guys at the station suspect the suspect's identity. Only you could prevent forest fires. Yeah, recognize that old voice. They gave him the name Smoky Bear. It's the world and everything in it. It's the world and everything in it at 15 years and then some. Today is Wednesday, September 9th. Thank you for starting your day with us. Good morning. I'm Nick Eiker. And I'm Mary Rygard. Coming next on the world and everything in it, honoring the lives lost on 9-11. This week marks 25 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Nearly 3,000 people were

27:17killed in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. For the nation, it was a shared outrage, one seared into the memories of those old enough to remember. But for the families who lost loved ones, the grief is deeply personal. And the passage of time can bring fears that their stories will fade. Worlds Grace Snell met with one woman determined to keep those stories from being forgotten. At the September 11th Memorial, rushing water cascades into two identical reflecting pools. They're retaining walls, frame the footprints of the Twin Towers. There's 2,980 three names on both walls. That is all the people on 9-11 died, not just New York. Dana Tammujiyo lost her brother Mike in the attack on the World Trade Center. Tammujiyo leads tours of the memorial site to keep Mike's memory alive. And to help people understand the significance of this place. When I walked that wall, I see a lot of names. I remember having a drink with that guy. I remember her answering my phone or whatever it was. So for us, it's not random.

28:21For you guys, it might look random. The names are arranged by meaningful adjacency. People who knew each other in life are listed near each other. The families of the first responders said, no, we want them together. These were brothers. We spent Christmas together. We raised our kids together. Tammujiyo's brother worked on the 93rd floor of the North Tower. He was a vice president for equities trading at Fred Alger Management. Back in 2001, Dana was driving to work when a newscast crackled over the airwaves. Halfway through my commute, I hear on the radio that a commuter plane had hit the World Trade Center. And I remember taking my breath away. I don't remember if I'd ever heard it. At work, a co-worker silently ushered her to the television. And look at the TV and my knees buckle. Because now I see that it's not a commuter plane. That is Mike's tower. A second plane hit the South Tower a few minutes later. It collapsed at 9.59am. That was when Dana knew. Mike was gone. Michael Andrew Tammujiyo was one of about 1,100 people whose remains were never recovered.

29:24The wreckage of the twin towers burned for 99 days. Clean-up efforts officially ended in 2002. The ground zero remained under construction. Tammujiyo returned there once in 2003. After that, she didn't come back for nearly two decades. Not even when the September 11th memorial opened in 2011. I would see people on the trains coming under World Trade Center and there would be like there was like this weird circus excitement to be there. And I was like, if I'm next to somebody like that on the memorial, I don't know what I'll do. I could explode. Then the pandemic hit. The city was quiet and it gave Tammujiyo the courage to return. I was expecting to hate it because I just didn't think he could get this thing right. But it was just perfect. I just remember feeling it was almost like a release. You just kind of like released all this energy and I was like, they're honoring our people the right way. The design is called reflecting absence. There's two waterfalls that go into it.

30:27It's a 30-foot waterfall into a 20-foot. The second one you can't see the bottom of it by design. It's meant to know infant loss, infant memory. Tammujiyo does her best to make sure those memories live on. In 2024, she launched her own tour company, Vibe NYC tours. She wanted to help people understand the meaning of the site for those who lost loved ones here. There's a lot of people that come here and don't consider that they might be standing next to a family member or another colleague, right? A lot of the first responder colleagues are down here all the time and you can usually tell right away. Tammujiyo's tour ends just up the street at St. Paul's Chapel. In front, there's a shady cemetery. Tammujiyo says many people don't realize that's exactly what the September 11th memorial is for many families. 1100 people did not come home at all that day. This is their final resting place. Tammujiyo didn't know if she'd be able to talk about Mike during tours. And then slowly but surely, I started talking about my brother and it was cathartic. It was

31:28healthy. It was like releasing stuff. People responded by telling Tammujiyo their own stories too. And I realized at that moment, this is what I needed for the last 25 years to actually talk about this. Moments like that, Tammujiyo says, start to feel like healing. Reporting for World, I'm Grace Snell in New York City. Grace has much more of Dana and Mike's story in the September issue of World magazine, including who Mike was before he became one of the names on the memorial. And why Dana now spends so much time helping a generation born after 9-11 to understand what really happened. We have a link for you in the show notes. World commentator Cal Thomas remembers that day from another vantage point. He was near the Pentagon on the day of the attack. And 25 years later, he's looking back not only at what happened, but at what it meant.

32:29On September 11th, I was sitting in my home office, not far from the Pentagon. The television behind me was turned down, something caught my attention so I reached for the remote and turned up the sound. One of the World Trade Center towers was burning, then a second plane struck the other tower. It was clear America was under attack. Not long after I saw a smoke rising from the Pentagon, I went up on the roof for a better look. My son was a firefighter. He later told me he pulled bodies from the wreckage, even now he doesn't like to talk about it. In the days that followed, I wrote six columns in succession, and many more in the months and years afterward. On the day of the attacks, I wrote, it brings into clear focus the state of war that has existed for some time between America and those who oppose our values in way of life. I called for the expulsion of people and organizations with ties to radical terrorist groups. That did not happen. I believe the threat from within

33:29remains. The argument over what the attacks meant began almost immediately. Six days after 9-11, President George W. Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington. The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war. I disagreed with that as I did other political and media figures vouching for the peaceful nature of Islam. I pointed to what was being taught in some Muslim schools. One seventh grade Palestinian textbooks said Islam, quote, will defeat all other religions and would be spread through Muslim jihad fighters. And the anti-Semitism behind much of this is not disappeared. In fact, we've seen it grow more open. It didn't take long after 9-11 for the blame America first crowd to make itself heard either. That instinct is still with us. The tendency to look first for what America supposedly did to provoke those who hate us. That gives to another

34:33thing I wrote about in those days. Something besides human lives died on September 11th or so I hoped. It was the doctrine of moral equivalency. The idea that people everywhere are basically like us or can be made so if we accommodate enough of their demands. 25 years later that way of thinking is still alive. There are times when moral clarity requires distinctions between aggressor and victim, freedom and tyranny, good and evil. I also argue then that America needed to reduce its strategic dependence on Middle East oil. Energy policy has changed enormously since 2001 but the larger lesson remains. A nation should think carefully about the vulnerabilities on which its enemies can capitalize. Later I was fortunate to visit ground zero while access was still restricted. A friend knew the fire chief who let us into a rope-dough area. Three images have never left me. Blocks of store windows covered with pictures of the missing and pleas for help finding them. Part cars filled inside with

35:36dust from the collapsing towers and an unopened soft drink bottle lying in the debris. They made us wear hard hats. I kept mine on it. I wrote NYC 911 2001. It's easy to say never forget but every generation must be taught what there is to remember. An entire generation has now been born since September 11th. Others were too young at the time to understand it. And that means it matters who teaches the history whether the story is grounded in facts or filtered through whatever political biases happen to be fashionable. Twenty-five years later remembering September 11 should mean more than remembering where we were. It should mean remembering what happened, who did it, what they believed and what history ought to have taught us. For World, I'm Cal Thomas. Tomorrow a reading revival. How Mississippi's reading improvement scores went from near the bottom to the top. And how volunteers offered care to relief workers in the aftermath of 911.

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