Today our fellow citizens our way of life. Our very
freedom came under attack from the series of deliberate
and deadly terrorist attacks. The victims were
in airplanes, were in their offices, secretaries
businessmen, and women, military and federal workers,
mom's and dad's, friends and neighbors. Thousands
of lives were suddenly ended by evil despicable
acts of terror. When ever we do our patrols of the ferry, It is first,
thought coming upon the city is it's a beautiful
view most days. The Freedom Tower sticks out obviously, amongst the whole skyline,
but it does, you know, you're going towards that
direction and you're passing the Statue of Liberty
and it definitely sticks in your mind. Like, you
know, the reason why we're out here. 20 years
ago. My, fourth grade memories still burned in.
There is something that Impactful and historical
will definitely stay in people's minds for a long
time. So being 20 years later and we have members
to join the Coast Guard directly because of 911.
So nowadays, we have numbers that weren't even alive
during 9/11. So to think of the impact it
had back then people joining, you know, hopefully
all the newer members, can they come here to the MSST,
you know, they could kind of get a sense of Pride of continuing on that
legacy of protecting the harbor.