THIS IS POWERFUL: Hillary Clinton just delivered a message on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 that America desperately needs to hear right now.
She began by remembering what Americans actually did in the days after the attacks.
First responders searched through the rubble at Ground Zero. Medical workers treated people. Volunteers brought food and water. Construction workers cleared debris.
And across the country, ordinary Americans helped complete strangers.
People who had every reason to be frightened kept showing up for one another.
Hillary summed it up perfectly:
“In the aftermath of catastrophe, people look around, they see what is needed, and they help.”
But she didn’t stop there.
Hillary reminded Americans that for survivors and the families who lost someone, September 11th didn’t end when the towers fell.
It didn’t end when the debris was cleared.
It didn’t end when the cameras left Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and that field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
For so many Americans, the consequences have continued for 25 years.
They’ve lived with illnesses and injuries. They’ve carried memories most of us can barely imagine. They’ve felt the absence of people they loved at birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and all the ordinary moments of life that those victims never got to experience.
And Hillary pointed out something especially important today: roughly a third of Americans weren’t alive or were too young to remember 9/11 themselves.
That gives the rest of us a responsibility.
Listen to the people who were there.
Remember the people we lost.
And carry forward the courage, resilience and compassion Americans showed each other in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
That is moral clarity.
Twenty-five years later, Hillary isn’t telling Americans to remember 9/11 by hating someone.
She’s asking us to remember how Americans helped one another.
