Twenty years later. Two wars later. Is America safer? | dG1fTmstUmtPblR3TUE
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00:00The Israeli military said the attacks launched by Hamas on Saturday are like the 2001 terrorist
00:12attacks on the United States.
00:14This is our 9-11, the spokesman said.
00:18I looked up and I said, what the hell's going on?
00:23I can't remember the kid's name that I was in class with, but he was like, World War
00:27Three, dude.
00:28We're going to war.
00:29For our generation, this was our Pearl Harbor, and that's when the idea started to blossom
00:35about the military service.
00:37I was only in Afghanistan for one month.
00:42I don't got a left arm.
00:43I don't got any more legs or, you know, a right arm.
00:46That was my only child.
00:48He would have been 34 now.
00:50Jeremy called our childhood a leave it to beaver childhood.
00:54I think of the three of us being enlisted for the most purely patriotic reasons.
00:58He enlisted because of 9-11.
01:01He felt that he needed to help our country.
01:05And Buchanan High School has lost more young men in that war than any other high school
01:11in the United States.
01:13There's a lot of kids that lost their lives for this country.
01:19The terrorist organizations, their commitment, their resolve, their desire, intent to do
01:26harm to Americans, we could actually have a sleeper cell already in the United States.
01:32The international intelligence community, we are worried that America has underestimated
01:39the hatred that terrorists have for the West and for America in particular.
01:46After fighting with the Taliban all these years, Americans opened the airplane doors
01:51and said, welcome to America.
01:53If the people that are supposedly running our country aren't going to do anything to
01:57keep our country safe, then why are you sending our kids to places where they can be harmed
02:01or killed?