We keep the 9/11 discussion moving with Dawn’s reaction to the Big Take, comparing the attacks with Pearl Harbor and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The crew contrasts public and congressional backing for the Iraq War with today’s Iran debate, then moves to New York’s release of roughly 170,000 pages tied to toxic Ground Zero air. Zohran Mamdani’s role in the 25th-anniversary events becomes a major point of debate, including his current approval rating and the anger from people who do not want him at the commemoration.
Dawn connects the post-9/11 period of national unity with her grandfather’s World War II service and with Travis Manion, whose death in Iraq becomes part of our focus for Friday’s Doylestown broadcast. We talk about George W. Bush’s World Series first pitch, the loss of that shared national feeling, and why Friday’s program should center first responders, veterans and families who live with the direct consequences of 9/11. Listener reaction then takes over, including a critic who calls Nick’s Big Take condescending and a former social-studies teacher who discusses the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and anti-American sentiment in schools.
The calls keep going with Marjorie in Florida warning that the country still fails to imagine how another major attack could happen, which leads us to Zacarias Moussaoui, flight schools, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Howard Lutnick’s decision to take his son to kindergarten on the morning of 9/11
