2001, where you were on that day, what you were thinking, and how do you think this country has fared since that day . Here are the numbers to call. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 2027488000. If you live out west, its 2027488001. And if not by phone, you can check in at social media, of twitter cspanwj is our handle. We look forward to hearing from you. Here are what the new york papers are saying today on the 9 11 anniversary. The editorial in the New York Post says that 15 years after the planes hit the twin towers, the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania, many wounds have healed, though some never will, particularly for those whose loved ones names are once again read today at ground zero, something well see later today. Yet, as many as a quarter of americans are too young to remember that day, slowly, but inevitably, its becoming history that most only know through books and video, not by having watched the news live. Yet remembering the attack and marking vital, not only to honor the nearly 3,000 slain, but because it altered history, but also to never forget the islamist enemy who remains every bit as hateful and as dangerous. Heres the front page of the New York Daily News this morning, have we forgotten, sort of a tapestry of the faces of the people lost in 9 11. 15 years ago, we stood as one and said wed never forget, but can this divided nation ever hope to be that united again . Also in the daily news, amid 9 11 unity, america is divided by us versus them, they write. Heres a little bit from the iece today host lets go to your calls on this 9 11 anniversary day. Wake forest, north carolina, good morning to you. Caller good morning. Five years ago, there was a book written which sort of revealed that what happened on that america hing had been warned about for years. Its called the harbinger, and it showed that this country was great because god blessed it. Much like israel 2,500 years ago, israel was warned to turn back god, and america did not do that. Nd then this 9 11 attack was revealing god has removed his level of protection from america. God always sends a warning before he sends judgment. So i read this book a couple of years ago, and the facts in here about the twin towers and even a tree that was brought down by one of the steel girders of the tower is just startling. I just wanted to comment that every american should read this book. Again, it was written five years ago, and theres even companion books. Its a very sobering book. That would be my comment. Host david, thank you for calling. Santos is calling from denver, colorado, this morning. Santos, what do you remember about that day, and what are your thoughts at the present moment . Caller well, my thoughts are is, how long will we allow one day to define our entire lives and our future . Were in at that timers because of the aftermath of 9 11. We have sacrificed our freedoms, our privacy, our happiness, because the aftermath of what has happened since 9 11. We are less free, and we are less safe, and the only thing that can save us is the nonaggression principle. I hope that people will check out thelibertarian. Com for the only thing, the only philosophy that can get us through this. Please visit votedifferent. Us. Lets make real change in this lets not succumb to fear, because we live in what hunter s. Thompson calls the kingdom of fear, and we have to get out of this. Host from denver to georgia. Were taking calls on the 15th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. Eric is on the line from cedar town. Hey, eric. Caller hey, how you doing . You know, this is what i like say. Id like to give an example, and just let me complete t. During Ronald Reagans time, people talk about his strength. Ronald reagan, during his time, beirut was born, lebanon, you know, and beirut. Hundreds of roinians was killed. He actually sold iran weapons, missile systems, which were used to bring down the plane. You know, the lockerbie plane. And during reagans time, but during obamas time, if you see things, things happen. Tip oneill came together with ronald reagan. They investigated to try to find out what was going on. They didnt need political points. What you see the Republican Party do, this is the only way that they can actually win, win elections now, with scare tactics, fear mongering, these investigations which dont get anything. The country is divided. But we need to come together, the democrats will actually come together for the country and help the country. This is what im talking about. You know, think about it. Ronald reagan also granted amnesty to millions of illegals, but now the republicans are against it. History is why the country cant come together, because of the Republican Party. Nancy pelosi actually worked with president bush during this time. She did not shut down the government. We was not for a lot of those things. And what you see now is dividing the country. You didnt have to see the hate. They didnt have to expose themselves until president obama came in office. Host eric, want to get other viewpoints this morning. Thanks for your comments. Stephanie now from north carolina. Stephanie, good morning to you. Caller good morning. Host your thoughts on this morning. Caller well, i work for the airlines in charlotte on that day, and i got to tell you that the silence, because you just heard planes all the time, the silence was just unbelievable, the shock of all the employees. It was i dont know. It was unbelievable. And it was just a difficult day, and i remember, i feel guilty about it now, but when they released the names of the airlines that were involved, personally i was like, oh, thank god it wasnt ours. Host stephanie, how do you think this country has fared since then . Caller i think, under the circumstances, its done well. I think the fear, i mean, you can walk outside and be gunned down or have a heart attack or whatever. You just cant live in fear all the time. Host cnn story recently, looking back at 9 11, americans fear, anger, and they worry. They write here that 15 years after the attacks, americans are increasingly worried that terrorists will strike in the days around the anniversary, and they are more likely than five years ago to feel fear and ang when her they think about what happened on that day, this according to a new cnn poll. Half of americans say that acts of terrorism in the u. S. In the days around september 11 this year are at least somewhat likely, up from 39 who felt that way around the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011. Host john is calling from california. Caller hi, good morning, and thank you for cspan. Host thank you for calling. Aller iraq was a mistake. An obstructionist congress, Republican Congress has been divisive. The wanted to talk about experience. I was living in new york at that time in queens. I went into the city on thursday to work, and i ended up at the Javits Center and helped out with the distribution of medicine and that. But i recently bumped into somebody that was in building three, and he and i talked for 20 minutes, 30 minutes about his experience. Just come out. You know, he was there for Lehman Brothers training, and he was out of the city the next week. And he has ptsd from that, and he suffers from it. And our experience is different, because i lived and worked in the city, and that was my neighborhood. I had worked in the buildings there in the World Trade Center. That was home for some people. And they can never forget. There are still businesses in that area that they live in that area, and they will never forget, because that is their home. And theyve done a wonderful job with the memorial and all of that. But, you know, our experiences are different. The closer you get to ground zero, the more personal it is. And, yeah, every year, i stopped working like year on 9 11. I dont go into work. If i have to make an excuse, make something up, i dont go in. It is visceral. Its something that strikes you, you know, to me, every year. God bless the survivors of that, the people and community there of new york city. The nation. Well come together as a nation , and we have in certain areas. Its just you know, there is listen, im going to tell you, i think it was an inside job, and there is a billboard next to the garden, Madison Square garden, architects for that, and that gets little coverage. And i wish everybody a good day today. Host all right. Thoughts there of john in costa mesa, california. Well continue to look in at new york and the memorial there, and we saw some shots there of the freedom tower, which replaced the twin towers. Theyll do what has become an annual reading of the names of the victims of the terror attack in new york. That will start up about an hour and 25 minutes or so. So well continue on with the program and your calls until that point. Well be going to new york, and a little bit later, about 9 30 or so, well be going to the pentagon for the Memorial Service there, which will feature remarks by president barack obama. Also on to shanksville, pennsylvania, later today. If you miss this live, well show it throughout the afternoon and the evening hours here on cspan. Kathy is calling now from indian head, maryland. Good morning, kathy. Caller good morning. Host go right ahead. Caller i watched this live sitting at a desk at my house. And since then, in the 15 years, im now retired, ive seen so many things, they dont have to attack us, were attacking ourselves. Theyre taking the in god we trust off of money and everywhere. And our children, because im sure its a telecast of other countries, are taking guns to school and killing each other. And thats the way i feel. Theyre just sitting back watching us do it to ourselves. And thats how i feel today. Host all right, kathy, lets move on to dawn in hopkins, minnesota. Its the 15th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. What are your thoughts this morning . Caller hi, im 60 years old, and i was living in india when i heard about it from a phone call. I didnt have tv access at that time. And i could hardly believe that such a horrible thing could happen like that. Ive actually voted for president obama, but i must say that im really disappointed. I feel like our country is concentrated on trying to save the whole world and thinking about everybody else, and we the americans have been forgotten, and thats why the message of donald trump has caught my attention. And i feel like hes right, we need to stop immigration and concentrate. We have plenty of people here. We need to concentrate on fixing up our own country and the new people that are here, and the fact that hillary is talking about bringing in so many more syrians just terrifies me. In minnesota, the somalians, i heard a man say minnesota belonged to somalians, a somalian man, and they act like we owe them everything. They have special privileges for cars, for apartments, for everything, and they act like we owe them to take care of them. I really dont think that that is what our American Society should be like, and i just im glad that i just recently found cspan, and i really appreciate your program so much, because we can see things, we can watch government things. We can see everything real and not all this interruption of reporters and their opinions. Host dawn, thank you for becoming part of our viewership. Thanks for watching. Enjoy your day. Jodie writes on twitter that today is the same kind of day as it was 15 years ago. Crisp and clear, not a cloud in the sky. The only thing that is the same. Hudson writes, a very sad day for america, and a day of celebration for terrorists. They pulled off a fantastic attack on america. The more they see our suffering, the more motivated they become to try Something Like that again. And the Washington Post this morning has this story, america is safer, but jihadist threat is greater. Its the lead story in the post today. Nine days after the attack, president bush outlined a twopronged response to historys deadliest attack, dramatic improvement in security at home and an allout assault against what he called a fringe form of is trappist extreesmism at war with the west. 15 years later, the first goal arguably has been met, as almost every measure are safer today from another 9 11 than in 2001, yet the struggle to defeat the Global Network of violence antiwestern group has recorded far fewer successes. The problem appears to have grown birg. Al qaeda, once led by osama bin laden, has been decimated and is no longer capable of orchestrating a sophisticated transnational plot on its own, say terror experts. Al qaedas branches in north africa and yemen have also been weakened by strikes and ongoing fighting with rival factions, but they write al qaedas powerful and locally popular Syrian Branch commands an army of thousands of trained fighters and now serves as a base for senior al qaeda operatives experienced in making explosives and carrying out terror attacks. U. S. Officials and terrors say they split with al qaeda, but u. S. Officials say the claim is not credible. The islamic state, despite military setbacks has demonstrated a growing capability to direct or inspire simple but lethal terrorist attacks around the world. Thats how the Washington Post puts it this morning. Susan from washington now, good morning. Caller good morning. Host your thoughts today . Caller i was telling the gal who first answered my call, on 9 11, i was in my family room, and i was working on a sampler for people who dont know what that is, its a type of embroidery that are that our small children made like in the 1700s, 1800s. I was working on one. My daughter called me from arizona, and she said, mom, america is under attack. And i turned the tv on, and working on this sampler while these things were going on, i was doing a blood red flower at the top of the sampler. And every time i look at that ampler, i remember 9 11. And i am i am so worried about our country. We have turned away from the lord. I know that there are people out there i dont understand why the people who dont like the pledge of allegiance or dont like monuments having anything to do with christianity or any other religion, why we have to back down to please them, when i would think that the majority of us have god in our hearts, and we need we need to take back america. We need to get on our knees and pray for our lord forgiveness and thank him that he gave us his only begotten son, even to ie for these terrorists. And we havent come that far. Weve healed, i dont think so, and i dont think that we remember. Long time ago, i heard somebody saying, if you dont remember history, it tends to repeat itself. And i think people come together very quickly, and then it kind of lulls like the waves lapping at the shore and going back up to sea. Host susan, thank you for adding your voice to the program this morning. We have plenty more time for your calls. In about an hour and 15 minutes or so, were going to go to new york and washington, the start of the ceremony there. But want to show you a piece, its about eight minutes long now, so well gather your calls while were watching this piece, and well certainly hear from you after those eight minutes are up in a live setting, but this was september 12, 2001. We opened up our phone lines here on cspan the day after the attacks, and heres the ery fist call we received. Host our first call comes from new york city. Good morning. Youre on the air. Caller hello. Host yes, sir. What would you like say . Caller oh, wow, i didnt think id get through, amazing. Host youre on. Caller when the first plane hit host tell us where that is. Caller two blocks out from the World Trade Center. Host two blocks south. What were you doing there . Caller believe it or not, i was meeting a Deputy Commissioner of the limousine commissioner to get a job as an instructor. And it just was amazing. Everybody was looking up, and i didnt at first see what it was. And then i looked up, and i saw what looked like a huge hole in the World Trade Center. And i was trained as a paramedic. Im not currently licensed, but i saw i started walking towards greenwich street toward the World Trade Center. I saw arms and legs and pieces of bodies and just a lot of really bad stuff. I put on my latex gloves, and i walked up and there was this guy from fema, the federal Emergency Management agency, and i said, listen, im not licensed, but im trained as a paramedic, and he just said, well, that doesnt matter now, come on in. So we went in, and we went under the basement to the other side of the building, and basically what we were doing was people were coming down the stairs, the Fire Department was arriving in groups, and they were going up the stairs. And there was a group of us, and what was happening was people were leaving out the exits, and they were getting not killed by debris that was falling. So what we would do is corral people in groups of 50 or 100, and wed go out the door and look for debris. And and and then wed tell them go, and theyd run out in groups, and we just did that 15 or 20 times when the second plane hit. And at that point, i started cursing, and i turned to an f. B. I. Agent, wheres the air support . Arent we supposed to be prepared for this . And the guys from the bomb squad came in, and i said are we looking for secondaries . My first thought was that they missed the first time, theyre not going to miss it the second time, theyre definitely going to bring it down. My thoughts were that the planes were just a distraction, they probably had bombs actually in the garage or whatever again, and thats what their main intention was. And during a lull, the people coming out, i turned to this guy, one of the f. B. I. Agents that was there, and i looked him in the eyes, and i said, you know these things are going to come down, dont you . He looked at me and said, yeah, yeah, they are. And none of us were there made any attempt to leave, and they just knew the building was going to come down, and they stayed. And i dont think the firemen, the looks on their faces when they went up the stairs, i dont think they thought they were going to get out either. I think everybody just knew what was happening. We were just trying to get host how did you get out . Caller there was a nypd captain with intelligence, and he came up to me and said, look, youre a paramedic, right . And i said yeah. And he said this is for police, im sorry, cs job, thats thats the very East Entrance