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DINA: Um...

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Today is September 11th.

It'’s my first time

experiencing the
day not at home,

with the support of my family,

with the support of my friends.

RONALD: Just about
just woke up.

Um, Today'’s 9/11.

Um, no.

I mean, you know what today is.

It'’s the day my father passed.

But you know, life goes on.

I'’ve got schoolwork
to do, you know.

I'’ve got schoolwork
to do, I'’ve got

Yeah, pretty much that'’s it.

I'’ve just got schoolwork to do.

♪

(BABY COOING)
JACQUELINE: Ron, Jr...

PAULA: Nicola...

♪

NICK: Actually, I saw
a meme last night

where it was like,

"I'’m so tired of living

"through global historic
events." (CHUCKLES)

RONALD: Dang, we'’ve
been through a lot

in recent years,

but it just feels like
this is life now.

This is how it'’s gonna be.

DINA: I do wanna live
through historical events.

I don'’t want to live
through things like

a pandemic or a
terrorist attack,

but I'’m so ready
to be a part of

the positive change.

LUKE: I'’m not gonna set
a goal that'’s like,

"I will be disappointed in
life if I don'’t change

"the world, change
the entire world"

'’cause it'’s probably not
gonna happen.

MEGAN: After 9/11, it was
definitely kinda this

one solid, like, you know,
"We need to come together."

And I think now it'’s
just completely fragmented.

(CHUCKLES)

CLAUDIA: Everything
is so skewed

and there'’s so much fake news.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

NICK: And now everyone'’s
saying, like,

"Oh Generation Z

"is gonna be the one who'’s
gonna change everything,"

but it'’s almost a little bit of

this is your problem now.

But there'’s a lot of problems

that are just becoming
our problem now.

RONALD: I feel like we'’re
gonna be fine.

We'’re not gonna be stable,
but we'’ll be fine.

♪

ANNOUNCER: Generation 9/11
was made possible

in part by contributions
to your PBS station

from viewers like you.
Thank you.

(TUNING GUITAR)

MEGAN: It is Monday,
right? Yeah.

I get so nervous.
(LAUGHING)

TEACHER: Good morning.

MEGAN: Hello. Okay, I
gotta ask you something.

I'’m being recorded for
a documentary.

Can they record this lesson?

TEACHER: Sure. What kind
of documentary is this?

Um (LAUGHS)

It'’s called Generation 9/11.

So, my father was a firefighter,

but I never met him.
So, they'’re, like,

following up with
all the kids now

and seeing how we'’re getting on

in our 20 years of life.

TEACHER: Wow! Okay.

You just threw some
stuff at me right there.

MEGAN: Yeah, I'’m
sorry, I just

TEACHER: They'’re
there right now?

MEGAN: Yes, they'’re
right there.

TEACHER: Hey, hello, hello.

MEGAN: So, A

♪

And then, we can do
E on the 5th.

♪

MEGAN: And then
E on the 3rd.

TEACHER: Nice, nice.

♪

MEGAN: And then
A on the 3rd.

♪

WOMAN 1: Megan. Hi!

WOMAN 2: Megan'’s first
time in the pool!

And big sister Kaitlin'’s
there to help.

Hi, Kaitlin.
KAITLIN: Hi.

MEGAN: Yeah!
KAITLIN: Howdy, partner.

(BOTH HUMMING)

♪

WOMAN: There'’s Megan.

MEGAN: So what'’s the
actual camera part?

Am I like really...
WOMAN: Yeah, you'’re in.

Our view is missing.

We can'’t see what we look like.

WOMAN: There you go.
MEGAN: That'’s crazy.

Hi.

MEGAN: Should I show her my...
WOMAN: Sure, why not?

MEGAN: Hey, so I got two
new tattoos yesterday.

Liza, my little sister
calls herself "Lizard,"

So, I got a lizard with
her name on it.

And then I just
impulsively got this,

like, title of the Smiths
song "Still Ill."

The Smiths are my favorite band.

I have the last lines of
The Catcher in the Rye,

because that'’s
my favorite book,

which is, "Don'’t ever
tell anybody anything.

"If if you do, you start
missing everybody."

(PLAYING ACCORDION)

♪

DANIELLE: She gets the
musical talent,

that part she gets
from her father.

MEGAN: Yeah.

♪

DANIELLE: He played the
saxophone, the bagpipes,

the accordion, guitar,

and he taught himself all of it.

WOMAN: I don'’t
know, Poppy.

MAN: What the hell
is he playing?

(ALL LAUGHING)

MEGAN: My mom'’s
always like,

"Oh, you'’re just like
him, you know."

And I feel like we would'’ve
gotten along really well

with our sense of humor.

I would have liked to have
met him, you know. But,

I mean, Kaitlin has
memories and stuff.

(SNEEZES)
LEE: Bless you.

LEE: Say "Hi, me."
KAITLIN: Hello, me.

LEE: Say, "Hi, Kaitlin."
KAITLIN: Hi, Kaitlin.

DANIELLE: When I met him, he was
a New York City police officer.

It'’s Kaitlin and Daddy.

When he had five
years on the job,

he transferred to
the fire department.

Kaitlin and Daddy.

I knew the risks and I was
willing to accept that.

It can happen and
it does happen,

and it wound up happening to be.

♪

(SIREN WAILING)

My brother-in-law,

his youngest brother
had called me

to ask if Lee had been working,

because he was like, "Some idiot

"just crashed into the
World Trade Center,"

and I said, "What?
Oh, my God."

And I said, "Yeah,
Lee'’s at work,

"but I don'’t think
they'’re gonna go in."

And I did hang up
and called the firehouse,

and I just missed their truck,

their truck had just left.

(SIREN WAILING)

MEGAN: I don'’t feel
the need to know.

I don'’t think I'’m owed
any explanation or

I don'’t know.

I'’ve never asked. I'’ve
heard things, you know,

or just things about,

Like Kaitlin was

very nervous that day
about my dad leaving,

which I found interesting
because I always think kids

have, like, this
weird sixth sense.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ Happy birthday, dear Kaitlin
Happy birthday to you ♪

DANIELLE: I do think,
in my situation,

it was helpful for me

that Kaitlin was so young.

And so, her realm of
comprehension

was very small.

(ALL CHEERING)

I said there is the possibility

he is in heaven
with Grandpa Jim,

and she was like, "Okay."
(CHUCKLES)

Sometimes, to this day,
I still get angry.

It'’s an anger of a life
that I had planned out

was taken away from me unfairly,

and, yeah, I'’m
angry about that.

Hi, Megan.

Merry Christmas, Megan!

DANIELLE: How cute!

Let me see, turn it
around to the camera.

It'’s a bunny rattle!

MEGAN: I think I'’ve
always just accepted it,

I don'’t know.

I don'’t remember ever
having a time

where I was like,

really sad or,

if I was angry, it was
more at the government.

(CHUCKLES)

But maybe that'’s
just because of

all the punk music I was
listening to at the time.

But no, I...

Just the fact that

something like that
could happen,

why was nobody doing anything

before it happened, you know?

♪

RONALD: I think the U.S.,
it'’s a strong country

for sure.

But I think it'’s internally
a little bit broken,

just a tad bit, you know.

From the outside,
looking in, probably,

they just see us as
probably like,

"What are y'’all doing?"

Which is understandable
for right now.

It'’s completely
understandable, I get it.

JACQUELINE: Say hi, Ronald.
This is his sister, Myejoi.

She just went to the
dentist today.

JACQUELINE: Say, hi, guys.
RONALD: Hi guys!

JACQUELINE: I love you.
BOTH: I love you, too!

JACQUELINE: Thank you
for loving Mommy.

RONALD: You'’re welcome.

JACQUELINE: Okay...

RONALD: I'’m the middle
child. So, you know.

She got the older
to worry about,

she is a little guinea pig.

Then she'’s got the
younger to worry about.

I don'’t even know what to
call him. He'’s just there.

Yeah, he'’s different.

Well, if anything,
I'’m just there.

I'’m the middle child.

I just go with
the flow pretty much.

TEACHER: Ronald!
RONALD: Yes, sir.

Let'’s see it.

Spinning around over there,

put your right foot forward.

JACQUELINE: His
strongest trait, for me,

would be determination.

He has a lot of that.

(GRUNTS)

JACQUELINE: I saw it a
lot, especially in sports.

(CHILDREN GRUNTING)

JACQUELINE: He likes
to be the best.

He likes to be on top. He
likes to be number one.

And he will do whatever he
needs to do to get there.

He'’s got a little bit
of that from me,

but he'’s got a lot of heart.

RONALD: I just think I
just liked to hit things.

I quit karate once I
got my black belt.

Once I got my black belt,

I was like, all right.
I'’m done.

WOMAN: Ronald Milam, Jr.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

JACQUELINE: What I'’m
most proud of,

not only just with Ronald,
but with all of my kids,

is that they turned out
to be really good,

decent kids with good morals.

That is beautiful.

'’Cause it'’s not easy
being a single mom.

RONALD SR.: Who'’s the man?
JACQUELINE: Who is the man?

RONALD SR.: You know who
the man is. Who'’s the man?

JACQUELINE: Puddin'’ Pan.
RONALD SR.: Puddin'’ Pan?

♪ Sweetie, sweetie,
gum drop ♪

Give me a kiss! Give me a
kiss! Myejoi, give me a kiss!

JACQUELINE: That
was a good one.

RONALD: I know he was in
the Army, and I know he was

a major, I think.

Either that or a general.

Other than that, I
don'’t really know much.

You gonna be looking
at your daddy.

Your dad in 20 years be
showing his stuff.

RONALD SR.: Look now. Look.
JACQUELINE: Please.

In a couple of years, you'’ll be
looking better than me, girl!

RONALD: Oh

I don'’t know when they met.
That'’s a good question.

I never asked that question.

That'’s a really good
question, though.

I don'’t know when they met.

But I know they met
in the military, surprise.

JACQUELINE: Seoul, Korea.
I was stationed there.

That'’s where I met him in 1998.

He was Army and I was Air Force.

RONALD SR.: Let'’s put
the camera on you.

JACQUELINE: Let me
pull my hair up.

RONALD SR.: No, see. See,
look at that. Look.

JACQUELINE: Let me
pull my hair up.

RONALD SR.: No.
It'’s too late.

Look, that'’s her for
real, right there.

(EXCLAIMING)

JACQUELINE: My daughter
walks just like him.

I didn'’t even have
to see his face.

It'’s the way he walked
and I knew it was him.

Him, Ronald has the
same demeanor.

Always nonchalant about stuff.

Nothing stresses him out, ever.

And that'’s how his dad was.

Blows my mind.

RONALD: That'’s my
dad playing golf,

he was a big golfer.

That'’s what my mom told me.

And then, Michelle Obama,
of course.

She'’s a huge fan, huge fan
of the Obama family.

WOMAN: Is that a candle?
RONALD: Yeah.

She'’ll get anything with
their faces on it.

That'’s the American
flag, obviously.

Folded the right way, I think.

They sent that to my mom

after 9/11 or
something like that.

But, that'’s what I think.

'’Cause I remember
her telling me

something about that.

JACQUELINE: I
was five months

pregnant with Ronald,
five months.

I was working in the Pentagon.

I was working in Personnel.

He was on the second
floor, I think E ring.

I was on the fourth
floor, D ring.

And he was working in

Manpower Reserve Affairs
for the Army.

That'’s what he was doing.

RONALD: Everybody'’s seen
the videos on YouTube,

on documentaries and
stuff like that,

I feel like I don'’t
need to know any more.

I just need to know

what basically happened
and there it is.

If it'’s in the past, you
can'’t really change it.

You really just
gotta keep going on.

'’Cause, I mean,
life doesn'’t stop

for anybody.

And time doesn'’t stop, either.

So, you just gotta keep going.

(JACQUELINE GASPS)

JACQUELINE: No, Ron, Jr.!
Do not eat the book, honey.

Where'’s your daddy?

Right there on the table.

He'’s on the table?
MYEJOI: Yeah.

JACQUELINE: He'’s there
in the picture.

Daddy'’s up there. We
see Daddy.

Daddy loves you?

MYEJOI: Yes. I
want your water.

RONALD: You see people
with their fathers, and so

you miss out on that bond
that other people have.

He'’s not physically here.

So, I guess it'’s really hard to

make a relationship
with nothing.

♪

DINA: I just lofted my bed.
Here, ready?

This, I did this!

I did it by myself, and
now I'’m sweating bullets.

This is a piece, this is a
piece, this is a piece.

Wow! Also...

WOMAN: Set? Go.

Come on.

I was not expecting that,
I must say.

That'’s why you took the
gummy bears off?

SUSAN: She didn'’t
mention it to you

but she'’s wearing this shirt
because it was her dad'’s.

It was Dave'’s.

WOMAN: Aww

DINA: And it'’s
super fashionable.

So, that'’s a plus.
(BOTH LAUGHING)

SUSAN: Does he look
like Ben there?

Or you?

DINA: I don'’t think
he looks Ben.

He looks like Papu here.

DINA: Wait, is that him?
SUSAN: Of course.

DINA: Looks like Papu here.
SUSAN: What?

It always struck us how little

Ben, Molly and Dina talked about

their dad or asked about him.

They never asked
about 9/11. Ever.

And I think the rest of the
world knew what happened,

even their friends or whatever,

way before they ever knew.

And a therapist once told us

never to lie, which I
wouldn'’t have.

But they were so little,
not to share details,

specifics, until they ask.

And they never asked!

I'’m still waiting!

DINA: What?
SUSAN: I'’m just kidding.

DINA: I'’ve asked things.

I remember I asked
how he was buried

because I was so confused.

SUSAN: What did I say?

DINA: That there were,
like, remains or something.

With DNA tests and stuff.

SUSAN: This is baby Retik,
number... What is it?

23547. And here'’s David,
he'’s gonna pick him up.

This is our first time
out of the nursery.

And here'’s Dada,
with baby Retik, Benjamin.

DAVID: How can
you beat this?

SUSAN: Just for the record,

Dave was so awesome
during the whole thing.

DAVID: How can
you beat this?

SUSAN: He'’s
the best coach,

he'’s gonna make the best father

in the whole wide world,
I know that.

Look at those little lips.

All right. I think I'’m
gonna try and feed him,

so I'’m gonna turn off
for a minute.

DAVID: Love you, Mommy!
SUSAN: Love you!

DAVID: Number two.

The players...
Meet the players.

Beautiful wife, Susan,

Daddy to be, and
there is the baby.

SUSAN: So, I'’ll tell you
a funny story.

When I found out that
I was pregnant with Dina,

Ben was four and Molly was two,

and I remember, I told Dave,

and then I went to the bathroom,

like one foot away,

and I came out of the
bathroom, and I said,

"And we shouldn'’t tell
Ben and Molly yet because

"we never know what'’s
gonna happen."

It was so early." And
he goes (GASPS)

He had already told them.
Within like 90 seconds!

I just thought that
was very funny.

He was just very excited, missy,

that you were coming along.

DINA: Knowing the
absolute least about him,

it'’s hard to even come
up with the questions,

because what do I not know?

Like, how do I know
what I don'’t know?

I don'’t have memories
to think of him with.

It'’s more about the
idea of who he was.

SUSAN: And there'’s two.
DAVID: Saved.

(APPLAUSE)

SUSAN: The last night

I slept beside my husband, Dave,

I barely noticed he was there.

He had come in late
from a work dinner,

and had an early business
trip the next morning.

And at seven months pregnant,

I was basically
exhausted all the time.

So, when he left, I
was sound asleep.

DINA: I love learning
about it through my mom,

like, through her
online presence.

I mean, I think it
can be easier than

going to her in person.

SUSAN: After dropping the
kids at preschool,

I turned off the kids'’
music and put on NPR.

They were saying
something about a plane

that had crashed in New York.

DINA: I did learn,

actually, from my
mom'’s TED Talk

that one of the terrorists
was actually just sitting

a seat or two away from my dad.

SUSAN: What if Mohammed
Atta had looked at Dave,

and instead of seeing an
abstract enemy,

had seen a father?

DINA: I was surprised that
I hadn'’t known that before.

Because that seems like
a big detail.

♪

CLAUDIA: I know when
I was younger,

I would sit down
with his picture

and talk to him about my day,

or if I was struggling
with something,

I would talk to him about it.

I still do that sometimes now.

I always wondered why.

I mean, I even still
do to today,

even though I know it
was just an attack

on the United States.

I just always wonder
why that specific day

did he have to go to work?
Not why did it happen?

(CHOKING UP)
I don'’t know. I'’m sorry.

(SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

CLAUDIA: This is a
student athlete award.

I think my greatest achievement

that I did for cheering
in high school.

I'’m very proud of
myself for that.

I won a scholarship award
because of my GPA.

I won this award the same
time I won this one.

This one was my very
first award I won.

It was my freshman year.

My diploma is right here.

So everything that
I have up here

are the only awards
I'’ve ever won.

So, I really showcase them

because it makes me
proud of myself.

I have a card that I wrote
him for his birthday.

I don'’t remember how old I was.

I didn'’t even draw a
rainbow correctly.

So, I'’m guessing I
was really young.

And I'’ve had this
since I was 10.

So, about nine years now.

It'’s been sitting in
each of my rooms.

My mom always made sure
we had pictures of him.

We have the folded
flag of honor,

and underneath it, we
have some ashes

from the site of the towers.

Almost every day,

I at least make one trip
to just look up,

and go back to my room
with whatever I'’m doing.

(SPEAKING IN POLISH)

CLAUDIA: I know that when
they met, my mom was 14.

He took her under his wing
and showed her around,

and they got married
when she was 18.

And then, she had Alex
when she was 20.

NORBERT: Alexandra!
Alexandra!

(SPEAKING IN POLISH)

URSULA: I'’ve always
wanted to make sure

that they know who he was,

and where he came from,

and how very ecstatic
he was to be a dad.

If anybody told you
the day before

that something like this
is possible to happen,

you would just laugh at them

because this is the best country

in the whole wide world,

and we'’re all safe and secure,

and all of a sudden,
the whole world changes.

CLAUDIA: From
what I know,

he worked for a painting company

or a contracting
company of some sort.

And he would put up wallpapers.

URSULA: He wasn'’t
there, ever,

except for that one day.

He worked in different places.

He just happened to go there

to fix something on 104th floor

of the north tower.

Because the office
hours begin at 9:00,

he was supposed to be
out of there by 9:00.

I just totally tuned out
anything and everything.

I was just waiting
for him to come

through the door for a
very long time.

(NORBERT SPEAKING IN POLISH)

♪

CLAUDIA: It definitely
angers me a little bit,

'’cause he was supposed to
be in and out really fast.

It just angers me how
everything works.

But my mom always told me

everything happens for a reason.

I just don'’t know what
that reason is.

♪

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(FOOT STOMPING)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

FARES: Friends
in high school.

I was the cameraman,
even in high school,

with my phone.

Here is in Amman.

When I came to the
United States in 2017,

I was like excited and happy.

Wow, I'’m in airport.
It was first time.

Here'’s first time in
America, in Times Square.

Too much people,
I don'’t like it.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MALEK: He came here when he
was, like, two years old,

and they grew up in Brooklyn.

He worked hard, that'’s
what I heard.

I know that he was an
audio and visual manager

at the Marriott Hotel.

So this is something special.

This is my father'’s
wedding ring.

Yeah, I always keep it with me.

Yeah, I used to wear it,

but I think I have bigger
hands than my father.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

NICK: Computers have
always been

a big fascination of mine.

I'’ve always wondered
how they ticked.

I remember, back when
I was a kid,

we had this old Dell laptop,

I think like an Inspiron,

I'’m talking, like, 2003 laptop.

PAULA: He is exactly
like his father.

NICK: Yeah
PAULA: In many ways.

NICK: Yeah, you say
that all the time.

(CHATTERING INDISTINCT)

PAULA: I'’m thinking, you
guys didn'’t even meet.

How is that possible, you know?

NICK: I know that he
started his work at

Deutsche Bank over in Germany,

and he had been doing it since,
I think, their high school,

eventually, I guess
made his way up

and landed himself in New York.

I guess it'’s like
something to live up to.

You know, being someone
so successful

at the age of 27.

♪

♪

PAULA: Do you ever wonder
where that water goes?

NICK: Probably
right back up.

PAULA: There'’s got to be
a system to recycle it.

NICK: Yeah.

PAULA: Like?
NICK: The infinity.

PAULA: Energy?
NICK: Yeah.

PAULA: It was my really big
job in the United States,

the dream job on Wall Street

kind of thing, you know.

So I was really proud of it,

coming here with nothing.

I was actually on the
74th floor of the tower.

I was supposed to be
on the 74th floor.

I had morning sickness.

I was so sick that morning.

The moment I walked out,
the plane went in.

Within seconds, the
whole sky lost its blue.

There were just pieces, fire,

things falling out of
the sky like rain.

He wasn'’t supposed to be there.

One of his colleagues
couldn'’t make it

to that meeting, it was
a group, it was a team.

So he said, "I'’ll go."

So at that point,
I didn'’t know.

And when I got home

there were several
messages from him.

And just a few minutes

before the plane hit
this building,

he had a message saying
I'’m on the 94th floor

of the Twin Tower.

NICK: We talk about
it a little bit.

I don'’t ever ask a lot
because I know it'’s a lot.

And I guess it'’s just something

that almost feels like

it'’s almost more your
history than my history.

PAULA: Yeah.
NICK: You know?

PAULA: I think as
you get older,

it becomes your history more,

not because you were there
part of it, living it,

but because we'’re so connected.

You know how they say
that there is like this

trauma starts at conception?

And everything that
goes on in the womb

that the child can feel,
I was afraid for that.

You know, I wanted to
be nurturing,

I didn'’t want to be a
wreck, you know?

I just did not want you
to be inheriting,

soaking that all up.

So, yeah.
NICK: Thank you.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

PAULA: Seriously.

NICK: Happy Mother'’s Day.

PAULA: Happy Mother'’s Day,
yes, every day.

LARRY: Nancy? Nancy,
do you hear me okay?

NANCY: Yes, I can.

LARRY: Just call me Larry
and we'’ll be fine,

and thank you, Nancy.

Tonight, the Taliban says

it won'’t hand over
Osama Bin Laden

despite President Bush'’s
ultimatum.

Meanwhile, the US military

readies for an
unprecedented fight.

And then later, Major Kip Taylor

was one of those who died

in the terrorist attack
on the Pentagon.

His wife Nancy is eight
and a half months pregnant

with their second child.

LUKE: I hear that my dad, he
was a really hard worker.

The organization he was a
part of, the Delta Force,

it is a very selective
group of individuals

who are in the Army
Special Forces

and they do a lot
of work undercover,

not undercover,
top secret stuff.

It'’s definitely not an easy
organization to get into

and it takes a certain
kind of person,

someone who'’s really motivated

and driven and tough.

Like, when you grow up as
a kid and you'’re like,

that'’s the guy I
wanna be, it'’s like them.

Cheese!

Cheese!

DONNA: Okay, one more
time, look here.

LUKE: Cheese!

(LAUGHING)

I was usually the center of
most big family events,

from what I remember.

DEAN: Yeah, that'’s how I
remember it, too.

DONNA: Come on, Luke,
ride your pony.

There you go!

(LAUGHTER)

LUKE: I remember this
picture, for example.

I don'’t know if you
can see that,

but it'’s been in our house.

DONNA: She needs to see it.

LUKE: You wanna see
it again? Sorry.

It'’s been in our house,

me and my brother on
this stuffed horse,

I think it was like a
rocking horse or something.

MAN: Ta-daa
CHILD: Ow!

MAN: No, no, no.

LUKE: Mental
toughness and just,

I think, physical
toughness in general

is something my parents
really wanted to

instill in my brother and I.

MAN: Luke,

what happens if we stab
people with the sword?

LUKE: It'’s painted.

MAN: No...
WOMAN: It'’s a safety issue.

MAN: It'’s a
safety violation.

But what happens?
You lose the sword, right?

LUKE: I think feeling
sorry for yourself

is something my parents

have both taught us

just isn'’t gonna get you
anywhere in life.

LARRY: We now welcome
to Larry King Live,

Nancy Taylor.

When did you learn, Nancy,
that Kip was dead?

NANCY: Well, I learned
officially yesterday.

My casualty assistance officer

and a chaplain showed
up at the house,

but I knew in advance.

They had told my brother-in-law,
my husband'’s brother, Dean,

that they were gonna
come to the house,

and I knew it was just a
matter of time.

DEAN: The whole country is
in this massive turmoil,

bracing itself for

the beginning of the
global war on terrorism.

Yet, for our family,

it was like a laser beam
had gone right through us.

LARRY: You ran into
President Bush,

is that right? Last Monday.

When he went to the Pentagon.

NANCY: That'’s right. I showed
him this picture of Kip.

I pulled it out of my purse. I
took a few steps towards him.

I said, President Bush, this
is my husband, Kip Taylor

who was at the Pentagon
last Tuesday

and has not been found.

And he said the most
important thing for me to do

was to bring a healthy
baby into the world.

And he turned towards my
husband'’s brother

and his wife and told them

that they needed to help me.

And he said that they were
gonna take care of this.

LARRY: Thank you, Nancy.

The United States military
is on the move.

American men and women
heading into harm'’s way.

Our closing images tonight

are set to the Battle Hymn
of the Republic,

sung by the US Navy Sea
Chanters one week ago

at a memorial service in
Washington'’s National Cathedral.

♪ (Choir singing the Battle
Hymn of the Repbulic)

LUKE: I don'’t really think
I'’ve ever felt angry

from the events.

I feel motivated to
make a difference

and to prevent that from
happening again,

but I don'’t necessarily
feel angry by it.

It'’s tough and it'’s sad,

but I think just
trying to use my logic

and, I guess, the facts
to control my thoughts

over my emotions
has always been my goal

and I think it allows me to

I guess be less sad in life.

♪

CHILD: Hello.
(inaudible)

Let'’s have a butterfly fight.

(swishing sounds)

RONALD: Earliest memories.

Um

JACQUELINE: Where you
going, Ronald?

RONALD: What?

JACQUELINE: There
goes your sister.

RONALD: Kindergarten...

JACQUELINE: Momma
didn'’t teach you

how to ride the bike?

RONALD: Nope.

JACQUELINE: Who taught
you how to ride it?

RONALD: I remember
recess.

JACQUELINE: You just
learned all by yourself?

RONALD: Yep.

JACQUELINE: You did not!

RONALD: I remember all
my teachers coming up.

School, school, school.
I love school!

MEGAN: I remember
in preschool,

I wore like this leather
vest one day,

and this kid pushed me

and I turned around
and put my fist up,

and I was like,
"Don'’t touch me again."

So maybe that set the precedent

for no one talking to me,

but I don'’t know.

MAN: How old are you? Two?
DINA: Five.

MAN: Three?
DINA: Five.

MAN: Four
DINA: Five.

MAN: Oh, five.

DINA: I do remember being in the
laundry room of our old house,

the discussion was
something along the lines

of Donald, my stepdad,
coming into our life.

I just have a very clear memory

of, "Who'’s the father
figure?" kind of thing.

Apparently I was the first
one to call him "Dad."

I do not remember that.

When I was in kindergarten,

that'’s when Rebecca was born.

I was very excited for
Rebecca to come.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NICK: I remember
Mom telling me,

"You'’re going to have
a sibling!"

I remember when I was holding
her, I was just really anxious.

One of our sides of the family

had a dog very similar to Yogi.

He was this tiny little thing

and I just remember dropping him

because I was so afraid,
I was so anxious,

and I just dropped
him and I was like,

I can'’t drop a baby, you know.

CLAUDIA: I just remember
when Emily was born

and Alex and I would argue about
who would get to hold her

and play with her.

What Alex and I did most
of the time, though,

is actually steal her toys.

And then we'’d have to give
them to her, annoyingly.

LIZA: It smells good!

MEGAN: Ugh, I don'’t
think it does!

It'’s weird to think about,
if one thing didn'’t happen,

the next thing wouldn'’t
have happened.

Obviously, no one wanted
9/11 to happen.

But when my mom got remarried

and they had Liza,

it'’s so weird '’cause
I can'’t imagine

my life without Liza.

She'’s like my best friend.

So I try not to think about it,

'’cause then it'’s
kind of like this

big universal question of,

"Why am I here?"

And no one wants
to think about that.

DEAN: Do you remember when
you and Nancy and Dean

flew to Colorado
from Washington,

and then you fell in the
pond in the backyard?

Do you remember that?

LUKE: No
DEAN: No, you don'’t.

I thought... That was so
traumatic...

DONNA: You remember it.
DEAN: I remember it.

DONNA: Oh, gosh.

DEAN: I built the pond he'’s
gonna fall in and drown.

Great.
(DONNA LAUGHING)

This is almost done,
Dean. That'’s really done.

NANCY: And
who'’s over here?

There'’s the little peapod!
And Aunt Donna.

DEAN: And Aunt Donna.

(COOING)

DONNA: Just as a baby,
he did cry.

I will say he cried
an awful lot.

I don'’t know, what
does trauma do?

I mean, what does he know

about the family dynamics
in the house?

You sense stress and
tension, I'’m sure.

(CRYING)

LUKE: There wasn'’t a time
where they sat us down

and they said, "Ok we'’re tell
you about your backstory.

You'’re old enough to know now."
It wasn'’t really like that.

MAN: Hey, buddy. There'’s
your Uncle Dean.

DEAN: We decided
very early on

that we were going to answer

every question they had

very directly, very honestly.

MAN: Give Mommy a hug.

NANCY: Come here. Give
Mommy a hug.

MAN: Go give Mommy a hug.
Go give Mommy a hug.

(SQUEALING)

LUKE: They'’re always
referred to as

our parents in heaven,

our mom and dad in heaven.

And I guess I was like, okay,

that means they passed away.

NANCY: Mommy loves you.

Pattycake, pattycake,
baker'’s man.

LUKE: At what point did
it actually click

that she'’s not going to live?

DONNA: Oh...

DEAN: I was still on
active duty in the Army

and was going back and
forth to Washington

and I happened to be there

when she went through a
whole series of tests.

Five or six doctors came
in and talked to Nancy,

and Nancy was very matter
of fact about it,

and then they walked out.

I just looked at her
and she said,

"Are you ready to be a father?

"It'’s not whether it'’s
gonna happen,

"it'’s a matter of time."

And she was without emotion.

DONNA: Right.

DEAN: And it completely
took my breath away.

I could not even grasp
what she was saying.

DONNA: Uh huh.

DEAN: Yeah, that was
Feb 4th, 2002.

So, what, four months
after you were born?

NANCY: You want
us to hug you?

(CHUCKLING)

LUKE: I think,
now that I'’m older,

I started to really understand,

especially what my
mom did for us

while she was fighting cancer.

She was very selfless and
she spent so much time

getting everyone else ready.

And preparing a life
for Dean and I

that was gonna be great.

And it has been great.

LUKE: Nancy passed
away November 18th.

DEAN: Yeah.

And we were there
almost a month afterwards,

got the house ready for sale.

DONNA: Uh huh.

DEAN: Then we jumped
in Nancy'’s minivan

with Gunner, and you were sick.

LUKE: I thought I
threw up on you.

DONNA: Yep, but that
was from McDonalds.

You learn from trial and error.

As parents, you'’re like,
"Well, let'’s just feed '’em.

"We'’ll just stop
at McDonalds."

LUKE: He'’s crying, let'’s
get him some junk food!

(TOY TRAIN BEEPING)

DEAN: Hey, Luke,
that'’s from Alma.

LUKE: People sent
us so many gifts

those first couple of years.

I think they felt bad for,

honestly, they felt bad for us.

My parents didn'’t really
know what a kids

played with '’cause they
didn'’t have kids

and so I think a lot
of other people

felt that they
needed to contribute

or they wanted to contribute,

which, obviously, I'’m
very, very grateful for.

But, Christmas was a whole

four-five-hour
opening gift process.

DEAN: Whoa!

LUKE: My dad would probably
get pretty frustrated,

maybe take a nap in the middle.

DONNA: Hey, guys,

here'’s Papa opening
a gift for him.

LUKE: I never really
understood

I hate to say it this
way. I sound very,

I feel bad saying it
this way, but,

I never understood that

most kids didn'’t have
it like that, really.

And now, looking back,
realize how spoiled I was

and how lucky
and fortunate I was.

And, looking back, I realized

how many people
truly just stepped up.

DEAN: Let me see,
Luke, hold it up.

Show Margee, say thank you.

LUKE: Thank you, Margee.

LUKE: Looking back,
at the time,

I wish I appreciated it more,

but I really didn'’t,
if I'’m being honest.

I just was a, you know, a
four-five-six-year-old kid

opening his Christmas presents.

(FOOTSTEPS)

♪

REPORTER: In the
wake of 9/11,

105 babies were born to
the widows of the victims.

Here is a glimpse
of two families.

RONALD: I grew up being a
9/11 kid, as you know.

They would just bring you
places and stuff like that.

We'’d have these shoots and stuff
to do for different things.

JACQUELINE: Five years later,
is happiness possible?

Yeah. You know, is there a
vacant hole in my life?

Yes, but I got two beautiful
babies that he'’s left me with.

I got parts of him every day.
We'’ve named my son Ron, Jr.,

I call his name all day long,

so that'’s a wonderful
thing I'’m loving...

I still have him.

RONALD: I think I
remember that, actually.

It was just light.
That'’s what I remember.

But I do remember playing
with the toys, though.

Wow. Okay, yeah, I
remember that.

(SEAGULLS CAWING)

DINA: Our family'’s story

was just we were the
9/11 family.

REPORTER: Since
September 11th,

Susan Retik has been inspired

by a passage from a
book on grief.

DINA: I think growing up
as the 9/11 family,

I just, it was all normal,

like that my mom was doing
all these things...

Or not normal, but expected.

SUSAN: We didn'’t choose
to be 9/11 widows.

But with that title
comes a voice.

DINA: She really took
in all the love

and support that she received

and then worked hard
to spread that.

REPORTER: The two women
started raising money

with bicycle rides

from Ground Zero to
their homes near Boston

to help other widows like them.

Not here, but in Afghanistan,

where some lost husbands
in the US-led bombings.

DINA: She recognized
the crazy differences

between how she was
treated versus how

Afghan widows are treated.

SUSAN: They had so
little over there.

When we did start to hear
about anti-Muslim rhetoric

and all this stuff of
the "Us against them,"

which happened really
very early on

here in the United States,

it just didn'’t
feel right to me.

DINA: Having my mom
as a role model

has been incredible.

Instead of spreading hate,
it was spreading love,

and I think that was so
important for me to learn.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Yes, we can.

(CROWD CHANTING)

America, we have come so far.

RONALD: I remember he was
the first Black president,

but other than that, I
didn'’t really care,

to be honest.

That'’s gonna sound bad,

but I was seven,
so give me leeway.

Like, I don'’t like politics.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

NICK: I had no idea
we even had a president

because politics
was a foreign concept

to eight-year-old Nico

or six year old,
I think, at that point.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

LUKE: I understood
that it was a big deal

but I never really got
why it was a big deal.

Like, my parents, for example,

remember the N-word
being used in America.

They remember, still,
African Americans were

looked at as inferior.

And I think America'’s
come a long,

long way since then.

I don'’t think
that happens anymore,

which is awesome.

NICK: You see, the
whole timeline

on the walls and whatever

when you'’re in the
classroom and you'’re like,

White, white, white, white,
white, white, white, ahhh,

that'’s why he'’s relevant.

MEGAN: I remember we were

put into the library to watch,

I think the inauguration.
They were just like,

"This is history." I just
remember being like, okay.

I was like, I'’m bored.
(LAUGHS)

'’Cause I was like,
we'’re in the library.

Why aren'’t we picking up books?

But whatever.

Hello. This is my
little kitchen table.

There'’s my guitars.

This is a TV in case
you didn'’t know.

And yeah, just some
little things.

This is my desk. It
moves all the time.

The kitchen. Literally
nothing to show

except the little
tiny setup here.

Sid Vicious here, from
the Sex Pistols.

I got my 15th piercing today.

My mom doesn'’t know
about this one yet,

so if you'’re finding
out now, "Hi, Mom!"

Over here is my bookshelf.

I think it was second grade.

We had this elementary
school publishing company.

I started writing a
lot of stories

'’cause I was like, "I'’ll
get '’em published."

Like, I couldn'’t have pets
because I was allergic

and my mom was allergic
and stuff, but um...

So I was like, what could
be a pet that I could have,

and so that'’s how I wrote
this book, The Little Rock,

because I was like, I'’ll
have a pet rock,

which is kind of so sad.
But... (LAUGHING)

RONALD: What'’s up? The
time is currently,

like probably 2:30
in the morning,

and I'’m just working out,

♪

Ooh! Cut that, cut that, or
we'’ll just speed that up.

That'’s pretty much
what I'’ve always done,

is just sports, pretty
much my whole life.

It just made me into
who I am, basically.

'’Cause I guess I just
like being physical.

Perspiration.

I did track and field when
I was in elementary school.

JACQUELINE: He did make it
to the Junior Olympics,

'’cause I remember

because I drove all
the way to Detroit

from Texas to get us there.

I was just in the stands

screaming for him to be first.

Just pushing on through.

I knew he was always
going to give it his all.

RONALD: Them kids are
fast though, right?

JACQUELINE: Yeah.

RONALD: Them
kids were fast.

JACQUELINE: Fast. Yeah.

DONNA: Who'’s that?
LUKE: Hello.

DONNA: Hello! Luke'’s trying
to finish up his casserole.

DEAN: Three more
bites from lunch, okay?

DONNA: And where'’s Gungoo?
DEAN: Luke,

DONNA: Where'’s Gungoo?
DEAN: That'’s not funny.

Not funny at all.
(DONNA LAUGHING)

LUKE: Through
elementary school

I was the biggest ladies'’ man,

I'’m not gonna lie.
I have pictures of girls,

like there'’s just me with
six girls. It was epic.

Girls fought over me and stuff.

They'’d pinch you and hurt you

'’cause they liked you.

It was really weird.

Confusing times for
a young Luke.

Really confusing times, but,

yeah, I hate to say it,

but I kind of was a ladies'’
man in children'’s school.

NICK: My friend introduced
me to Roblox.

'’Cause this was like... I
was maybe eight years old.

And then he introduced
me to Minecraft,

and then it took off from there.

So this is my desk.

I actually built this computer.

You can see a little bit
into it if you'’re curious.

And then eventually, I
started getting interested

in learning about,

oh, how can I play better?

And then one thing
led to another,

and now I'’m a CS major!

FARES: My uncle and
my brother

they were playing a game

in Facebook called Happy Farm.

I said, "I want to play."

At this time, it was
everyone playing.

Just sitting and
playing on their phone.

♪

CLAUDIA: You didn'’t read my
first text and I was like,

"Oh, God, she
better not forget."

So what did you do in PE today?

EMILY: Passed batons.

CLAUDIA: Oh, like relay?
EMILY: No. Not even.

No, all we did was pass them.
Like, literally, just...

We went outside and we
had to pass them.

Obviously, I did nothing,
because that'’s dumb.

CLAUDIA: We moved to
Florida in June of 2010,

so I was eight years old.

It was, I think, a 22-hour
drive, it was very long,

and we just drove straight.

A young dog, a baby and
two girls, me and Alex,

who just wouldn'’t stop
bickering in the car,

so we made it dreadful
on our mom.

You just picked a scab
in my car? Emily!

Emily just hold it!
Apply pressure.

EMILY: I don'’t know why
you'’re freaking out,

it'’s not that bad.

CLAUDIA: You'’re
bleeding in my car!

EMILY: Yeah.

CLAUDIA: My prized
possession!

EMILY: It'’s black.

CLAUDIA: I know
in New York,

9/11 is like a symbol

that bonded everybody
in the city

and things like that.

But in Florida it was
kind of different.

I mean, everybody
knows about the day

and all that good stuff,

but it'’s not like everybody

became closer because of
it, if that makes sense.

Every year on the day,

it would be really hard for
me when I went to school

because we would go into
this full class lecture

in almost every single
one of my classes.

So it was very difficult
to just sit there

and like hear everything

and everybody just learning,

but not really wanting
to learn about it,

which kind of drove
me up the wall.

I don'’t tell everybody.

I just feel like that'’s not

that'’s not something that
everybody needs to know

when I first meet them.

I don'’t want everybody to
look at me a certain way

because of what happened,

because that'’s not
who I am as a person

and it'’s just something that

happened to my family.

GIRL: Down. Bang.

(SPLASH)

(ROCKETS EXPLODING)

OBAMA: It was
nearly 10 years ago

that a bright September
day was darkened

by the worst attack

on the American people
in our history.

The images of 9/11 are seared

into our national memory.

And yet we know that
the worst images

are those that were
unseen to the world.

The empty seat at
the dinner table.

The children who were
forced to grow up

without their mother
or their father.

Tonight, I can report
to the American people

and to the world that
the United States

has conducted an operation

that killed Osama Bin Laden,

the leader of al-Qaeda,

and a terrorist
who'’s responsible

for the murder of
thousands of innocent men,

women, and children.

LUKE: I remember I was in
third or fourth grade,

and I was in the bathroom

talking to a buddy

and they were like "Did
you hear about Bin Laden?

"Bin Laden was killed."

And I was like, "Cool,"
you know.

Like, "Yay!" But okay?

I don'’t know. It was
a weird thought.

I was so young,

I didn'’t know what
that truly meant.

NICK: I remember the first

kind of getting a glimpse of it

on the bus home from school,

because they had started
talking about 9/11

on the radio

and they played the
radio on the bus,

and so I was like, "Why are
they talking about this?

"Why are they bringing
this up now?

"It'’s been 10 years,
please stop."

And then I got home

and my mom was frantically
staring at the TV,

calling people,

and I was like,
"What happened?"

And she had said,
"Osama was killed."

I thought she said Obama,
so I was like, "Obama?"

(PEOPLE CHANTING)
USA! USA! USA!

LUKE: Cheering about it'’s

kind of something that'’s weird,

'’cause it'’s like

you'’re cheering that
someone just got killed.

The guy'’s dead,

you ended a human
heartbeat. That'’s not good.

Yet he was a very very
horrible human being,

and it'’s just like... I
don'’t know, I don'’t know.

It'’s a weird
conversation to have.

NICK: Frederick K. Han.
WOMAN: Christopher James Hanley.

NICK: Sean S. Hanley.
WOMAN: Valerie Joel Hannah.

NICK: You have
so many eyes on you,

being one of the youngest kids.

I remember practicing for weeks,

making sure I got
every name right.

And for a 9-year-old, you
can'’t really comprehend it,

but being able to
be a part of that

was something extraordinary.

Thomas Paul Hannafin.

And my father, Sebastian Gorki,

who I never met because
I was in my mom'’s belly.

I love you, Father.

I love you for loving
the idea of having me.

You gave me the gift of life

and I wish you could be
here to enjoy it with me.

♪

PAULA: So, tell me.
Was it worth...

NICK: Very good.

PAULA: Is it good?
NICK: Mm-hmm

PAULA: Yeah?
GIRL: It'’s really good.

PAULA: Does it beat the
Southern Mama?

NICK: Well,
we'’re down South.

PAULA: I haven'’t tried
their pancake yet.

NICK: To me, it didn'’t
feel any different.

I had a mom, I had a dad,
I had me.

Eventually, then I
also had my sister,

so it didn'’t feel any
different from, I guess,

the typical family around me.

PAULA: Mmm

Who is the best big brother?

NICK: I am.

(PAULA LAUGHING)

PAULA: Because I was
married at the time, and,

you know, here he is,

like, "My dad,
my dad, my dad."

But at some point he questioned

how come everybody else
calls their dad father,

but yet his dad is just
his dad, so to speak.

Well, because you'’re lucky.

You had a father and
you have a dad.

That'’s kind of like how we
started the whole thing.

NICK: Yeah.

MAN: Go. Nico,
come over here and

give me a big kiss.

NICK: She had told me,

hey, he'’s actually not
your father.

You get a very simple four
-piece puzzle of about it,

and then as you get
older and older,

then it'’s like, oh, my God,

this is an a thousand
piece puzzle

with things coming from
all over the place.

♪ Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you ♪

PAULA: Happy birthday Oma.
NICK: Happy birthday Oma.

NICK: Hi.
MARLIS: Hi.

NICK: How you doing?

MARLIS: Oh, yeah, fine. Thank
you. Everything okay here. Look.

NICK: Oh, my God, no way!

MARLIS: Look where my finger...
can you read it?

NICK: Yeah,
unaccompanied minor.

(LAUGHS)

MARLIS: Since 2001,

September 11th, we visit
New York every year.

And then, Nico, you were
eight or nine years

when you came the
first time in Germany

all by yourself.

NICK: Yeah.
MARLIS: For me, now,

since he is really grown up,

it comes a little bit
together with Sebastian.

For me, it comes to one
person a little bit.

Sometimes I think,
oh my God, where

would he live now?

They wanted to wait
until you are born.

Then, after a while,
leaving the US

to come to Europe.

NICK: I would have been
a European kid.

MARLIS: Yeah, yeah.

NICK: That'’s crazy to
think about.

What could have been
different, you know.

'’Cause even just like the
small things in life,

it'’s so easy to

change something so quickly.

MARLIS: Yeah.
NICK: You know?

And then change the entire
course of your life.

I mean, I think we know that

better than anyone.

♪

CLAUDIA: Ever since I was,
like, a little girl,

I would watch, like,

investigation type shows,
like Forensic Files

or things like that that,

it just really interests me,

I don'’t know why.

I have always loved to argue

and to look at, like,
forensic stuff,

blood doesn'’t bother me,

things like that don'’t
bother me.

TEACHER: Okay. So, larceny
and theft this morning.

CLAUDIA: I'’m taking three
criminal justice courses.

I try to tell myself

that it has nothing to
do with the fact

of what my family has
gone through,

but that definitely
probably plays a big role.

My lowest grade
right now is a 92,

so I'’m trying to get
that back up a little

but it'’s harder to get it up

than to get it down,

so, that'’s what makes
me nervous.

TEACHER: Who'’s
the victim?

CLAUDIA: The company.
TEACHER: So...

CLAUDIA: What I want
is to just have

a foot in to the system itself

and ultimately make a
change somewhere.

There'’s a lot of
problems going on.

Prisons are almost
120% overbooked,

every single one
in the United States.

Especially with the
global pandemic

now going around as
well. I mean,

they'’re getting sick
and to keep people

from getting sick,
they'’re being thrown

into solitary confinement
for their own health

and that'’s crazy in itself.

There'’s a lot of things
going on under the radar

that shouldn'’t be.

REPORTER: The safest
place in America

people here like to call it,

just after 9:30
in the morning,

a 20-year-old man

whose mother taught at Sandy
Hook Elementary School

came into her classroom
with two guns.

MAN: Twenty-seven people
dead, 18 of them children.

LUKE: Growing up, yeah,
it'’s like every year

it was almost you expected,

when'’s the next school
shooting or mass shooting.

When'’s the next one
gonna happen,

it'’s gonna happen soon,

which is really messed up.

WOMAN: I heard it first, I
heard like, six shots go off.

DINA: We had drills
throughout the year.

We had this thing called
ALICE Drills,

which I don'’t know what
that stands for.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

RONALD: They locked
all the doors

and then they turn all
the lights off

and then you would go to
like the corner of a room

where that person is least
likely to see y'’all.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

It was just a normal
thing to do,

it was a drill, so, all
right, here we go again.

DINA: I would take it
pretty seriously,

knowing that things you
don'’t expect can happen,

happen.

So I think

I would take those things
a little more seriously

and seeing people,

like, goofing off was
kind of tough.

REPORTER: The shots were
heard outside of the school,

the shooter engaging a target
on the way to the school...

REPORTER: When a
seventeen-year-old

male classmate opened
fire on the school,

killing eight students and two
teachers, injuring 13 others.

LUKE: I was
definitely someone,

maybe this has
something that has

to do with you know, kind
of the way my family is,

but we'’re always planning
for the worst, I guess.

It'’s like you walk
into a movie theater

it'’s like okey if
something happened,

where would I go, type thing?

REPORTER: Former student
gunned down 17 people

and wound more
than a dozen others...

RONALD: At that point
I was just like,

these happen like a little
bit too much, man, like

first of all,

they shouldn'’t be
happening at all,

but they happen a lot here,

specifically in the
United States.

It'’s almost like,
I don'’t know, man,

this is, it was kind of odd.

Like, some precautionary
measures need to happen.

(ALL CHANTING)
Never again! Never again!

NICK: How many shootings
does it take

to change gun laws?
America may never know.

(ALL CHANTING)
We want change!

We want change!
We want change!

NICK: This is
my poster from

the March For Our Lives
back in 2018.

This was less than a month

after the Parkland
shooting had occurred.

It was one of the first times

that I guess I creatively
took on the system.

And that'’s something that
I kind of hope to continue

throughout my life.

MEGAN: I think a lot of it
is mental health issues.

I think a lot of people
in America have,

you know, things going
on in their brains.

But it is so expensive to
go get help, you know?

I'’m not saying it'’s an excuse

to do something like that.

Because people just
can'’t access

any sort of help they need

if they don'’t have,
you know, the resources.

♪

I never really was like a talker

in the sense that like,

I don'’t talk about my feelings

and I don'’t talk
about my feelings

with like my parents
or my sisters,

'’cause I'’m just like,
I'’m okay, thanks.

But I guess, yeah,
I do express it

in other places like
writing or music.

'’Cause it'’s just easier

to get it out that way, I
feel like, you know?

My music right now is very like

singer-songwriter-y,
like flowiness.

And, I don'’t think it matches

my personality very
well or my style.

And I'’m like, I don'’t wanna
be a poser, you know?

♪

NICK: I'’m genuinely
considering

becoming a YouTuber.

For just funsies because,

oh, my God! Clearly, I'’m
not going to be a good one!

But I'’m gonna just try.

♪

I saw this poking out
of the rack,

it'’s a little bit big for me,

but I'’m obsessed with
Oreos. Jesus.

I got this shirt,

it is definitely
a women'’s shirt,

but it, like, fits me,
so I don'’t really care.

I got these shorts as well.

I think if there'’s
one thing that

I think Gen Z does really well,

is this idea of just raw,

like, vulnerability and
connectedness

with each other.

These are also
definitely women'’s,

but they fit me really
well actually,

so I don'’t really care.

There are so many
things that I thought

I was alone in

that I found
people who actually,

you genuinely share my
experience.

Oh, my God, that'’s
gonna hurt my soul,

looking through this one.

'’Cause this, even
just looking back

and cringing at your old
self, you know, it'’s fun.

I think it was over the span of

seventh and eighth grade that I,

I just kinda realized like,
oh, wait a minute.

Thank you, How to Get
Away With Murder,

because there was a gay
character and I was like,

wow, he'’s hot.

This is me, bedhead.

I never brushed my hair
in the morning.

(CHUCKLES)

I don'’t ever think I
officially came out

to everyone in my school,

but I think at some point
it was just like known,

you know. And I mean,
I feel like

at that point after seven years

of spending together,

I'’m a cheerleader, I sound
like the way I sound.

If you didn'’t add two
and two together,

it'’s kind of your own
fault, you know. (CHUCKLES)

Oh, my God, the old
cheer uniforms!

No one ever came up to me,

no one ever bothered
me about it.

I had started cheering
in tenth grade.

I actually had a lot
of positive comments.

People are like, it'’s
so cool to see that

there'’s a guy on
the cheer team now.

Even my parents were super,
like, accepting of it.

And I think that has to
do with a lot

with social media.

People were seeing
it a lot more,

so they were a lot
more open with it

and okay with it.

But I think that
also has to do with

being in New York.

It'’s like, it'’s not
exactly a very,

I don'’t know,
conservative place.

(CROWD CHEERING)
♪

RONALD: I scored a few
times over here, you know.

I guess, for freshman
and JV football, yeah.

That was pretty
fun. It was fun.

JACQUELINE: I just
wanted my touchdown

and he gave me my
touchdown. It was what?

What was it the season playoffs?

Was it playoffs?
RONALD: Yeah.

JACQUELINE:
Yeah! Wonderful!

We were down and he
got to the endzone,

caught the ball, it was
just sheer determination.

We talked about like,
you know man,

if your dad was here you know...

Because he, I'’ve watched
his dad play sports.

And I know it would have
been a different push

than it was for me,

when it came to sports
or anything else,

because our personalities
were just really different.

And I would have loved
to see it.

I would have loved

to have seen that interaction.

It would have been wonderful.

RONALD: I would have to say
there was one or two times,

that you know,

that I wished he was
like really there.

But she did a great job
at just, you know,

feeding into that role as well.

So, I didn'’t really,
I just got used to it.

I was used to it,

because he was just never there.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

(MAN SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MALEK: We didn'’t have
a lot of options.

Either I leave first,

then I'’ll apply for my
mother to come here.

Or we all to have to stay
there. It'’s either way.

Because we can'’t leave
my mother alone.

Fares has to stay there.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MALEK: He was, like,
14 years old maybe,

so he wasn'’t like too young.

He was fine, he was a teenager.

He could take care of himself.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

OBAMA: We know that
our diversity,

our patchwork heritage
is not a weakness,

it is still and always will be
one of our greatest strengths.

LUKE: It'’s almost
like every year gets,

not harder but you
understand more?

And now that I'’m older,
it'’s like geez,

that sucks, you know?

It really sucks, what happened.

OBAMA: This is the America
that was attacked

that September morning.

This is the America that
we must remain true to.

RONALD: Every 9/11,
in history class,

we'’d have to like watch
videos and stuff about it,

some coaches would just
come up to me and be like,

I know this week'’s hard for
you and stuff like that.

They said just
try to get through it.

There'’s only been
like one or two years

that it got like really
hard on me, like now.

DINA: Usually,
when the day comes

it feels like there'’s
a lot of eyes on me

which was definitely tough,

because it'’s a mix
of wanting support

while also wanting to keep
it private and personal.

MEGAN: I don'’t mean to
sound, ungrateful,

but it'’s weird for me when,

on the day so many people
send me messages,

like, "Oh, I'’m so sorry,"

"thinking of you
today," etc. etc.

and I'’m just like all right,

I wasn'’t really thinking
about it until

you flooded my inbox

with all these messages,
you know? And it'’s like,

not that I don'’t deserve
it, but it'’s like,

I don'’t know, I feel like
that'’s more for my mother.

I'’m not reliving the day,
I wasn'’t there,

you know, I wasn'’t a
thing yet, so I don'’t,

I don'’t know, I don'’t have
such a strong attachment.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

TRUMP: Donald J. Trump is
calling for a total

and complete shutdown

of Muslims entering
the United States

until our country'’s
representatives

can figure out what the
hell is going on.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

NICK: This was
the time that

people started to take
their sides in a sense.

TRUMP: We can be
politically correct

and we can be stupid

but it'’s gonna get
worse and worse!

LUKE: I don'’t really
look at Islamic people

and think, oh, be careful,

look what they'’re gonna,

what are they gonna
do next, you know?

'’Cause, you know, they'’re
still people too,

but that being said,

I think Middle East has a
lot of really bad people.

I always find it interesting,

there'’s a big thing,

it'’s like in airports,

a lot of people who are Muslim,

kind of complain about
getting patted down

and stuff, it'’s
like, well, yeah,

that'’s probably frustrating

but you have to understand why.

It'’s like you live
in a country where

that'’s a threat to America.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MALEK: Here in America,
you have to be 21

to apply for a visa
for your mother.

So once I had the 21 years old,

I think the next day I applied.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FARES: When I
was in Dearborn,

it was a big Arabic community.

Like it'’s easy for me
to talk with them,

know me, know them.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

This is my state.

You can do this shot like,
from Yemen to Michigan.

Welcome to Michigan!

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

LUKE: Hi y'’all, my
names'’ Luke Taylor,

I'’m from Colorado
Springs, Colorado,

my major'’s pre-business
and I love NASCAR.

♪

DINA: I'’ve always been
an angry, little child.

I'’ve always made jokes around

mourning and my loss,

it does make people
super uncomfortable

which I find a little funny.

NICK: I hated the idea of
sticking to the status quo

and I would weirdly just
get into arguments.

Like, arguments over
phones, why? Why?

LUKE: I was
dating this girl

and I would sneak out a lot
to go visit her at night.

Like, multiple times a week

for a couple of months
when we were dating.

So, my parents had no idea.

I don'’t know how.

My dad was in intelligence
in the Army.

I thought he was
kinda like a spy

but he never found out.

So, surprise.

RONALD: Update, again!

You know, they'’re
long drives, man.

It'’s just like, they
take forever so,

you got to entertain
yourself somehow.

So this is how fast
I'’m going...

Wait.

That'’s how fast, I'’m
going almost a hundred.

Not a hundred though. I
don'’t want to get arrested.

MAN: Vroom. Yeah.

PAULA: First day
driving.

Are you going to go in reverse?

NICK: Yeah, I just wanna
back up so I'’m not gonna...

PAULA: Just remember there
is a car behind us.

NICK: That was
huge for me.

The day I could, we
were at the DMV.

I was getting my
learner'’s permit.

I would drive maybe five,
ten miles an hour.

I didn'’t even put my
foot on the gas pedal.

But it was just finally,
a lot of freedom.

Especially, in a town like this,

there'’s not a lot of
amenities here.

MEGAN: Actually, my best
friend, Amanda,

is two years older than me.

She was learning how to
drive when I was 14,

she was learning how
to drive stick,

'’cause she always wanted
a manual Jeep,

so I learned how to drive stick

when I was 14.
Sorry, Mom.

♪

RONALD: Update
on the trip.

I got a citation for
speeding. (CHUCKLES)

I was looking, he was
lurking, I guess.

I have no clue
where he came from.

I was going like 20
over, so, yeah,

I deserve the ticket.
But, shoot.

Every time you'’re driving,
you get stopped by a cop

and, it'’s scary, it'’s
scary '’cause,

being, being a person of color.

Because you don'’t know
what'’s going to happen,

'’cause things have happened
that were on the news

and you'’re not trying to
end up like that.

NICK: Five, six,
seven, eight.

One, two, three.
One, two, three.

One, two, three.

NICK: It kind of started
my freshman year

at high school.

A lot of my friends
were cheerleaders

on my high school team.

So I was like, you know
what, like why not?

I am not doing a sport.

It could be pretty fun.

And I fell in love.

(ALL CHEERING)

When I got a taste of what
it was like to compete,

I was like, I love this.

(ALL CHEERING)

I joined an all-star
cheerleading team,

which is kind of like the,

the level up I guess.

It'’s way more competitive.
It was a lot of fun.

It ended up culminating,
unfortunately, with COVID.

I was actually headed
towards a competition.

It was down in Florida.

There'’s just like a
handful of really,

really big events in cheer.
And this was one of them.

I was getting ready
to go on my flight

and they came out with an update

and they were changing
the entire competition.

You know, just something
that I love,

all of a sudden just getting

ripped away from me.
It was just, ugh, you know?

TRUMP: My administration
is recommending

that all Americans
including the young

and healthy, work to engage

in schooling from home
when possible,

avoid gathering in groups
of more than ten people.

Avoid discretionary travel.

RONALD: My senior
year ended on a

random day in March.

You get a notice and
you'’re just like,

oh, we can extra week
of spring break.

And I'’m like, we'’re all
like, cool.

And then we just never
went back to school

after that for the next,
for the next year.

CLAUDIA: It was
spring break,

so we were home for spring
break and it was a Friday

and I get an email that
schools are shutting down

for an extra two
weeks. I was, like,

oh, okay, longer spring
break, that'’s fine.

And then two weeks went by

and we'’re shutting down
for the rest of the semester.

DINA: For me, it was
my senior year,

and that was really,
really emotional.

And I did feel a lot of,
how could this happen?

And like, why me, why our grade?

Classic, classic Dina'’s
life, having another thing,

another big thing happen.

MEGAN: COVID has made
me very negative

on the world outlook,
'’cause it'’s like

we had one job which was to
stay home and wear a mask

and even then people
were like "No,"

and they just ruined it
for everybody else.

And it reminds me of when
you'’re in elementary school

and a kid'’s like, "Wait
what about the homework?"

And everyone'’s like,

what are you saying,
don'’t say that.

It'’s like that one
person went outside

without a mask and ruined
it for all of us.

♪

(ALARM CLOCK RINGING)

♪

FARES: Before COVID, I was
an events photographer,

and mosque security,
and running with people,

swimming, biking,
lots of things.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FARES: When COVID started,

I was telling people
to wearing a mask.

Because I have the free
time when I was in Yemen.

(BAGS CRINKLING)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

AUTOMATED VOICE: Then in
150 feet, turn right.

Arrive at the destination
on your left.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

NICK: COVID really made
everyone kind of stop

and re-evaluate in a sense.

People are just becoming
more aware of

what'’s going on in the world.

You know, that'’s why we
saw a huge push with

the Black Lives Matter movement,

especially in the summer,

because with everyone at home,

you hear so much about it.

You become emotionally invested

in this type of stuff.

MAN: You are in violation
of Minneapolis...

(CROWD MURMURING)

RONALD: It just kind of
made me angry,

'’cause, like, you know,

it'’s just like,

this has been happening
for so long and,

it'’s still an issue today and

it'’s been happening
since before,

since before my mom was alive.

WOMAN: No peace! No peace!

JACQUELINE: It blows my
mind that I have to say,

look, if you'’re stopped
by the police,

this is what you need to do.

You call me, you know,
quickly and I'’m coming.

I'’m coming. That'’s
scary to me.

RONALD: People can
record stuff now,

it'’s all over the internet,

there'’s so many sites and stuff

that you can put it on,

so people can get to see it.

In a way that has changed
for it to be noticed,

but in the way that,

for that problem to get better,

I have not seen any change.

(PEOPLE CHANTING)
"Our streets!"

DINA: Really
recognizing that

there is so much change

that needs to be made and

recognizing that I
myself am racist.

Like, it it doesn'’t feel
good to say that,

but it'’s an everyday thing

that you have to be working on.

Like, we were taught, we
were taught to be racist.

CLAUDIA: There'’s people
going around

that wanna cancel

law enforcement completely
and that is not my case.

I mean, my godfather'’s
a police officer.

My uncle is in the military.

I don'’t see how we can
be safer without them.

MEGAN: Oppression has been
a part of America forever.

You get taught things

but you don'’t get
taught the full story.

You know you hear things like

how great you know
so and so was,

but then it'’s like well
they actually weren'’t,

they did all this bad stuff.

School almost tries
to shape you to be one way

and then I feel, like,

when kids find out the truth,

they almost kind of,

you know, resent
their own country

because, well, I was
lied to, you know.

MAN: Claudia Szurkowski

WOMAN: Oooh, they got it!

Yay!

ANNOUNCER: It'’s
graduation time!

REPORTER: 2020 is the first
class born after 9/11

and this year they
will be the first

to not walk across the stage.

(SIRENS WAILING)

DINA: We had two different
graduations.

We had a graduation parade

and then a more
traditional ceremony.

I liked the parade way more.

It was new and it was exciting

and it felt really and
it was special for us.

And we got to drive around
town, everyone in town,

cheering us on.

It felt like it, in a
sense, was making up for

what was possibly lost.

RONALD: It took
ten seconds,

graduation was ten seconds.

You would walk through,
get your diploma,

take a picture, walk,
you'’re done. That'’s it.

You'’re done, finished,
graduation, boom.

FARES: Fake picture.
(CHUCKLES)

I missed because I was in Yemen.

There was a graduate ceremony,

but I wasn'’t here.

And even if it was online,
I can'’t watch it

because Yemen has bad internet.

LUKE: They ended up
re-scheduling it

for August.

You know, we had to stagger
the seats a little bit

wear our masks and
stuff like that,

but it was it was, at least
we got to proceed I guess.

I had the graduation
ceremony that morning,

left the afternoon for college.

That morning I was
sitting on the stage,

Yeah, I'’m leaving today,
like, this is awesome.

And then it was like, it
hit me, I was like, wow,

like I'’m actually leaving now.

DEAN: Well, you don'’t
need to worry because

we don'’t mind being
empty nesters either.

DONNA: Now they'’re up
and on their own

and we see that they'’re
functioning,

wonderful young men,

you know, you'’re just like,
okay, I can let it out now.

(CHUCKLES)

So, Nancy and Kip gave
some pretty cool gifts,

so, I know.
And I mean that'’s the

greatest thing you could
ever get, is kids, so.

(CRYING) Sorry.

(CHUCKLING)

(CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)

MEGAN: I didn'’t want to
go to graduation.

My mom was like,
"You have to."

ANNOUNCER: Megan
Lee Fehling!

(PEOPLE CHEERING
AND WHISTLING)

And I looked up at my parents

at the stands and I
was like, I'’m free!

And they were like...
(SHUSHING)

I was like, I'’m free!
And then yeah, that was it.

This was a poem I submitted
instead of a college essay.

The Day When Life Flashed
Before My Eyes.

The melancholy days

when my sister hugged me
tighter than the rest,

and childhood laughter

that filled the air with purpose

and not just an attempt
to fill the silence.

My mother'’s tears as they
said my father'’s name on TV

the same day every year.

The feeling of being heartbroken

and not being the one

doing the heart breaking.

Seeing Santa Claus was
not jolly at all,

just my stepdad in a tracksuit.

Realizing nostalgia can be felt

while looking at Big Ben.

Playing that song by The Smiths,

again, and again and again.

The day I told my sister

she wasn'’t allowed to grow up.

Yesterday when I realized

she didn'’t listen very much.

My dad'’s grave for the
first time when I was five.

New Year'’s Eve in New York
City, freezing but alive.

Reading and re-reading
the Catcher in the Rye.

The phlebotomist who woke me

from my unconscious
state of mind.

♪

DINA: College tomorrow!

♪

I was really excited

I was excited to leave
because of COVID,

just because I felt
really stuck at home.

But I was definitely nervous

to start school on my own.

SUSAN: Sending her off with
the pandemic, not knowing

what classes were
gonna look like,

what social life was
gonna look like,

it was scary.

DINA: I was sad when
my parents left,

but I remember they texted me,

an hour after they
had dropped me off,

asking if I'’d eaten yet

and if I wanted them to come,

pick me up to get dinner
and I was like,

excuse me? I
am an adult now

and I'’m living on my own.

I got my dinner.
Thank you, though.

NICK: Dorm tour,

still a little bit of
a work in progress,

but we'’ve got my bed.

My computer is set up
on my desk.

PAULA: It was
heart-breaking,

you know, to drop him off

and then come back to like
an empty room and all that.

NICK: And my little closet.

Walk-in but kind of,

cramped.

PAULA: There was that,
my baby is leaving,

how am I gonna do this?

I was actually pretty
composed, would you say?

NICK: Yeah.
PAULA: But I was confident

that he could stand on
his own two feet.

Everything is there

and the universe will
provide for him.

And so sure enough we spoke...

NICK: A lot.

(CHUCKLING)

RONALD: I was never
really sad about leaving,

you know?

'’Cause I feel that'’s just
not how my family is.

We'’re just like, okay,
another one gone,

I just got back.

I went to Texas Tech
or I still currently do,

and I stayed in
Chitwood residence.

I finished a quiz.

I was hungry so I made
these raviolis.

The room was really tiny.

Definitely for me
and my roommate.

We'’re both very tall people

and so I'’m 6'’3"
and he'’s 6'’5",

so it was like a
really tight fit.

I'’m doing psychology now.

I'’m planning on
majoring in bio.

I want to become a PA.

That'’s a Physician'’s
Assistant.

They work in tandem
with the doctor.

I feel like it'’d just be a
really cool thing to do.

And I think I'’d love it.

LUKE: Of course any son

would wanna follow in
their dad'’s footsteps.

DEAN: Don'’t try to
overdrive, okay?

LUKE: Both my dads
did ROTC

and like that'’s what
I'’m doing right now.

MAN: Ambition, purpose,
direction, resilience.

♪

LUKE: There'’s definitely
times where I'’m like

man, do I really wanna do this,

like, no, like getting up
at 5:30 on weekday mornings

when you know, every
single one of your friends

that isn'’t ROTC is
sleeping until ten

or until they have classes,

it'’s like that'’s not
fair, you know, but,

you'’re proud. I
know it'’s not easy

and because it'’s not easy
makes it meaningful.

It'’s crazy now that I
have the opportunity,

I don'’t know, if this is
going to happen or not

but if I'’m going
to be active duty

in a couple years to
fight the same war

that started because
my dad died.

It'’s not like the same
specific people

that were like related to 9/11.

So, it'’s not revenge,
it'’s not really like that.

I think really just
doing my part

and if I really wanna
be in the army,

that'’s just kind of how
it'’s gonna be.

I mean thousands of other guys

will be doing it with me
and I, that'’s how it is.

(ROAD NOISE)

CLAUDIA: Hello.

JERZY:
Hi. How are you?

CLAUDIA: Good.

JERZY:
Nice to see you.

ANNA: How
was your school?

CLAUDIA: Good.
JERZY: Good.

CLAUDIA: Yeah.

JERZY: Babcia made
some soup for you.

CLAUDIA: I know, I smell
it. I'’m so excited.

JERZY: She'’s almost
every day in our house.

Almost every day.

WOMAN: What was Claudia
like as a baby?

JERZY: She was very
happy, always smiling.

Running around, She was so cute.

ANNA: Claudia baby.

CLAUDIA: Oh, God.

JERZY: Babcia likes
small children,

you have to have the children.

So make Babcia happy,
make me happy.

You promise you'’re going
to have children?

CLAUDIA: Yes. Eventually.

You gotta talk to Alex
first. She'’s older.

ANNA: I am from
very big family,

my mom raised ten kids,

I am sixth.

Without electricity,

without running water
and only me,

thanks to him,

we are in America,
everybody'’s in Poland.

JERZY: Back
then in Poland,

it was Socialist, Communist.

And I know that system
from inside out,

so thanks, God, doesn'’t
come over here,

because I don'’t have
anything, where to move!

CLAUDIA: The Democratic
party and kids,

not even adults, kids are
boasting about Communism,

bringing Communism to
the States.

It'’s kinda scary
to think about,

'’cause I hear these stories,

like my family lived
in Communism first-hand,

so like I don'’t want that here.

I'’m so happy with the
life I have,

I'’m given everything,

and I work hard for what I get,

and I don'’t wanna work hard

to not get anything in return.

JERZY: People
are smart enough,

this is not gonna happen.
CLAUDIA: I don'’t think so.

JERZY: And I hope
it'’s not gonna happen,

people are smart.

CLAUDIA: I don'’t think
people are smart enough.

ANNA: I think it'’s
not going to happen.

America is beautiful,

freedom country

and gonna stay long,
long time like this.

RONALD: And while
we are here,

we could also talk
about the election.

So...

BIDEN: This election

is the most important one
you'’ve ever voted in,

whether it'’s your
first or tenth.

RONALD: I'’m only 18,

so it'’s my first
year of voting.

So, you know,

let me talk about
the experience.

NICK: One thing that
was very clear

was that everyone
was like, go vote.

I don'’t care what you are,
you'’re going to vote.

MEGAN: We got emails
almost every day,

being like go vote,

go vote, it'’s really
important, please go vote.

BIDEN: America is coming
back like we used to be,

ethical, straight,
telling the truth.

MEGAN: It'’s difficult,

because it'’s like a lot of
people are like,

politics is super corrupt,

it doesn'’t matter what I do.

I sometimes kind of feel
that way but it'’s like,

you might as well try,
and be like, all right,

well, this is literally the
only thing I can do,

so I might as well do it.

TRUMP: They want to
indoctrinate our children,

defund our police,

abolish the suburbs,
incite riots...

CLAUDIA: The way my
family does it,

is like we talk about it

and we do it together, we
vote for the same person.

Like my mom teaches us why.

I mean, she would let us
vote for who we chose,

but just the way we were
taught is how we do it,

so we kind of do it together.

DINA: I did actually
cast my ballot already,

which is so exciting.

I voted by mail.

RONALD: I'’m not going to
tell you who I voted for.

Actually it doesn'’t
really matter

if I tell you who I voted for.

I voted for Biden.
It doesn'’t matter.

(FIREWORKS EXPLODING)

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

DINA: I was like crying!

It is so exciting

to have a female Vice
President in office,

like, that was so, so exciting!

(PEOPLE CLAPPING)

TRUMP: We were
getting ready

for a big celebration.

We were winning everything

and all of a sudden
it was just called off.

LUKE: I don'’t know if
if we'’ll ever truly know

it'’s like, okay, maybe the
election was rigged

but you won'’t be
able to prove it,

and so what are you gonna do.

TRUMP: And we have all
these announcers saying

what happened and
then they said, ooh.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

NICK: Today is
January 8th, 2021.

It'’s around 5:00
p.m. Eastern.

Shots fired at the

county Democratic
Party headquarters.

I don'’t quite know
what happened but,

sounds like a mess.

Oh, Jesus.

Six bullets.

Yikes.
(CHUCKLES)

LUKE: When the attack on
the Capitol happened,

there was Trump flags
everywhere,

I'’m sure everyone'’s seen
those pictures.

For all we know, maybe,

they were all Trump supporters,

or maybe they were
all Democrats,

trying to pose as
Trump supporters

to make Trump look bad,

I don'’t necessarily
think that'’s true

but like I'’ve heard
different things,

different conspiracy
theories that

I don'’t have enough
research in to,

say if I believe in them or not.

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

RONALD: What
they did there,

was literally
like a terrorist...

It'’s not being seen
as a terrorist attack,

but it literally was
a terrorist attack.

That'’s literally the
definition of it,

you can'’t just rush
the Capitol.

DINA: I had always
thought of terrorism as

people outside the country
coming into our country

and like wreaking
havoc that way.

I had never even imagined
such chaos. Yeah.

SUSAN: Domestic terrorism

DINA: Yeah,
domestic terrorism

and I like I didn'’t even
know that was a thing.

NICK: So let'’s see domestic
terrorism definition.

So from the Department of State,

we'’ve got: premeditated,
politically motivated

violence perpetrated
against non-combative

targets by sub national group

or clandestine agents

usually intended to
influence an audience.

I would definitely say
that'’s fitting.

(CROWD CHANTING)

RONALD: Say if those
were BLM protesters,

I'’m telling you,

there would be more
than four bodies,

there would definitely
be more than

four dead bodies,

there would definitely
be way more.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MALEK: Fares is saying,
they just like to show off.

RONALD: Here we are, this
is San Antonio, Texas.

Wow, like crazy. It'’s
San Antonio, Texas.

You don'’t expect this.
I got these. Ooh.

I got a little beanie on.

My hair is huge,

so that'’s why the
beanie looks like that.

That'’s my car.

If you don'’t believe
in climate change,

you should believe in it now.

Okay. This is literally
the next day.

Look at this.

Look at my car now.
All that gone.

All round there, all gone.

But yeah, I'’m on my
way to the gym,

so that'’s what we'’re gonna do.

WOMAN: All right guys,

let'’s go ahead and get started.

If you could just type your
name into the chat for me.

RONALD: People generally
believe that technology

will take care of our
energy needs.

Few people are aware of many...

Well, I just wanted
to come back here,

'’cause I think this is where

I'’d like to start
working and everything

for an actual job,

an actual career stuff
like that.

WOMAN: So next week...

JACQUELINE: It'’s
strange that

he'’s not getting the
real experience

and that most of the
stuff is online.

So, he'’s not getting
the real feel

of what college is all about.

You need to feel the
pressure and the burn.

RONALD: I do feel the
pressure and the burn.

JACQUELINE: Make you grow.

RONALD: It'’s about five in
the morning. Finals!

Finals are coming up.

So I'’ve got to study for that.

Good grades, always,
good grades.

I haven'’t gone to sleep yet,

so we'’ll do that later.

FARES: Hey, miss.
Hi, good morning.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FARES: Okay, does
that work well?

If I don'’t graduate,
I'’ll go crazy maybe.

DINA: This is my dorm
for my freshman year.

Let me take you on a
little tour.

Here'’s my schedule. Oh!

You can ignore that, Mom
doesn'’t need to know that.

This is my really
dirty mirror, hello!

Here is my little nugget.

Kojo!

Okay, you can go back to sleep.

This smiley face.

I love smiley faces.

Here is a I heart female
orgasm poster.

And, interestingly enough,

I plan on pursuing
a career in sex education.

I know that our sex education

in school was not adequate.

It was the birthing video,

putting a condom on a dildo

and, don'’t get pregnant.

That'’s what sex education is

and that is not adequate.

(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
(DOG BARKING)

LUKE: Hey, how are
you doing?

STEPHEN: What'’s up, dude?
LUKE: Good to see you.

STEPHEN: All right man.

LUKE: Thanks for having me,
I appreciate it.

Are we sitting here? Yeah?

STEPHEN: Hey, kiddos,

can you all be quiet

if you'’re going to be outside?

CHILD: What are
you guys doing?

STEPHEN: We'’re
just talking.

LUKE: Was it his ranch
you are hunting at?

STEPHEN: No, it was like
a friend of his.

LUKE: Okay.

STEPHEN: We saw some aoudad

which are those horned,
like those rams.

I think next time,
if we went again, I mean,

I think he would probably
let us shoot one of them.

LUKE: Nice

WOMAN: How did you guys
find each other?

LUKE: I think he asked
me to go shooting,

the first time we hung out.
STEPHEN: Yeah.

LUKE: Hey, you want to go
skeet shooting?

I was like, this guy seems cool.

STEPHEN: Then he jumped
into a Bible study with us

and then we'’d meet up
every now and then.

LUKE: I think
there'’s generally

a culture in college of
just unholy things.

Like hookup culture and

a lot of people that just
like drinking a lot

and going out to the bars,

some drugs.

It'’s really easy just to lose,

kind of lose your footing,

if you'’re not careful.

STEPHEN: I think, Luke'’s
been through some really

big, hard challenging things.

There'’s more maturity
than, than his years.

It'’s not something we
would ever choose

to go through, hardships.

So that it would make
us more mature,

but God can use it in that way.

LUKE: Talking about
9/11, the story,

I don'’t know if it was hardship

for me personally.

It was definitely hard
for my family, I know.

But it'’s like I'’ve grown up

hearing stories about
my mom and dad and

I hate to say it this
but as far as like

the relationship that
I had with them,

it almost feels like
losing a distant relative.

I asked a lot of questions.
And a lot of the times,

you know, as humans,

we don'’t have answers for
a lot of the questions.

Like, hey, why did God do
this to me? It'’s like,

I don'’t know, man. I
don'’t know.

I guess God just has
a different plan

than we realize sometimes.

♪

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

FARES: I worked here maybe
for two years,

in the media team and
in the security team.

And I have, one photo there,

one of my photos on the wall.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

♪

CLAUDIA: I need my BA,
before I go to law school.

ALEXANDRA: In what?
CLAUDIA: Criminal justice.

ALEXANDRA: Okay.

CLAUDIA: Do you
not listen to me?

ALEXANDRA: I feel like we
definitely have a very

strong family unit,
and I honestly think

it'’s because of the fact
of what happened, 100%.

CLAUDIA: Alex always
called herself

like our second mom,

because Alex was four,
she was there.

She knew Dad a little.
I mean.

You were three?
I thought you were four.

Okay, well, she was three.

So, Alex was there
through me being born

and me growing up and stuff,

so my mom kind of, not
expected, but kinda

had her grow up a little faster

than she should have.

I definitely make sure
that I think about him

or I talk to him, everyday.

ALEXANDRA: I don'’t
forget...

CLAUDIA: When I
get super busy,

and I don'’t do it one day,

I feel so bad. Like,
it just hurts.

ALEXANDRA: I just
know that I'’m busy.

I'’m an adult now.
I'’m just like,

I'’m busy, and I'’m
sure he gets it.

I'’m sure.

I mean, he had to deal with
my mom who was busy 24/7.

CLAUDIA: Schooling,
working.

ALEXANDRA: So,
he knows.

We'’re gonna reach so many
milestones, so many.

And now, we just hear
him through her.

And we just, we'’ve
come to the...

well, I'’ve come to the fact
to accept it, you know.

(WAVES GENTLY SPLASHING)

(DINA SINGING)

♪ I'’ve seen your pictures
heard the stories ♪

♪ '’Bout how you filled
your life with glory ♪

♪ '’Cause you made people
feel important ♪

♪ You let them know that
they are wanted ♪

DINA: I don'’t think I think
of my dad every day,

which sometimes makes me
feel a little guilty.

♪ I feel so silly
writing a song ♪

♪ But I'’ll admit it it'’s
what keeps me strong ♪

DINA: I mean, I think
I have felt anger

about it for sure.

So many times,
I'’ve thought about

what my life would
have been otherwise.

I mean, I think
one of the things

that makes me realize
how lucky I am

is Rebecca.

That always brightens
that thought up.

I feel like that was
kind of my gift in return.

SUSAN: Is that...

DINA: You look
like you, Mom.

♪ '’Cause your voice is
a mystery to me ♪

♪ And your laugh will
never reach my ears ♪

♪ I can feel your
love from afar ♪

♪ Whenever I look up
to the stars ♪

♪ I love you more
than you'’ll know ♪

♪ And everyday, my love
for you grows ♪

(FOOTSTEPS)

♪

LUKE: I don'’t really
talk to them,

like, specifically.

I guess questioning

the whole faith side of
things, it'’s like, okay,

are they actually watching
down on me right now?

Do they know what I'’m doing?

I know I like to get
places fast sometimes.

I think I'’ll just look
down and be, like, well

they wouldn'’t want me
to do this right now,

they'’d want me to be more safe.

And so, I definitely

take that into a lot
of consideration

whenever I'’m like,

oh wow, I'’m going
100 miles an hour.

Maybe I shouldn'’t be
doing that, for example.

♪

NICK: There have been
times where I think I

consider the what ifs, you know?

I'’d love to know what life
would have been like

if he was alive,

maybe what he would
have been like

as a dad, you know?

Would we have gotten along,

or would we have been always

at each other'’s throats, or

all that type of thing.

I guess the what ifs,
more than anything.

♪

RONALD: Oh, yeah, this
must have been, like,

nearing after 9/11.

"As I face a future without
you, raising our children,

"I know in my heart, from above,

"you will be lending
be me a hand.

"This is not goodbye, Ronald.

"It is not even, '’I'’ll
see you later.'’

"It is simply '’until
we meet again.'’"

I'’ve never seen that.

Yeah.

Tugs at the heart
a little bit I guess.

Yeah, we can be
sentimental for sure.

But I think, to get
a tear out of us,

it'’d be pretty difficult.

'’Cause there'’s no point.

Yeah, '’cause whatever
happens is happening.

We might as well live
in the moment.

(BALL BOUNCING)

I just wanna be happy, man.

Yeah. I just wanna be,
I just wanna be

happy, and, yeah,
that'’s pretty much it.

A family, that'’d be cool.

A family and just living
life, I guess, yeah.

I don'’t know, I'’m
not asking for much,

I'’m just...

CLAUDIA: I think it'’s
so crazy because

they got married
when she was 18.

Looking at me now,

there'’s no way I'’m
ready for marriage.

(BUMPING BALL)

I am a young adult,

but I am not ready for all
the adult things in life.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(LAUGHING)

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(WOMAN SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MEGAN: I have felt
like an adult

since I was, eight,

in my brain, I'’m always
like, oh, I'’m so old.

Now, I guess, yeah, I
feel like an adult.

I feel pretty adult-ish.

FARES: I think, yeah.

DINA: It'’s a weird
in-between of

responsibilities and
figuring it all out.

It'’s all really hard, but
I like working through it.

LUKE: I am proud of how
independent I'’ve become.

But I, man.

I don'’t know if I
could say, like,

oh, yeah, I'’m a man, you know?

I wish I could, but I just
think I'’m still growing.

♪

NICK: Things are so all
over the place,

and so complicated,

and it'’s so difficult to

wrap your head
around everything.

I guess wherever life takes me,

life takes me.
So, yeah.

♪

It would be eight years from now

that we would be the same age.

From the time that he died.

In eight years, we'’d
be about the same age.

And that'’s probably
going to be a very

interesting year, I
guess, for everyone

because that'’s kind of where

his path ended, you know,

and I get to carry it on,

you know, the passing
of the torch.

One day at a time.

Only so much that I can
do about the world.

RONALD: I know that
life could end

at any moment.

I know that you just
gotta do things

that are good for you

and do things that are good
for the people around you,

and the people that you
love and care about.

CLAUDIA: He'’s always gonna
be with me everywhere I go,

no matter what.

(FARES SPEAKING IN A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

LUKE: Having both of your
parents pass away

before you turn three,

that'’s a pretty tough
way to start life.

And I don'’t really think
there was any possible way

that it could have
turned out better.

DINA: Everybody is so
badly craving change

even though it has
come from such

horrible, horrible events.

Good is coming from it.

MEGAN: If everyone admits
that they can learn more

and try a little harder,
they'’ll be fine.

We'’ll figure it out.
(CHUCKLES)

♪

♪

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