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Real moral stain on our country. >> and in a piece for the atlantic, you look back at 17 minutes that passed between the first and second planes hitting the world trade center, how america became or before the second plane hit is unrecognizable today. we became a different place. >> yeah. that 17 minutes from 8:46 to 9:03, you see just how innocent a nation we really were on the morning of tuesday, september 11th, 2001. people across the nation from the streets of new york to the president of the united states in florida see and hear of that first crash into the north tower and sort of collect...

New york has so many high-rise buildings, so many dangerous buildings, so many prevention laws and codes and everything else. the chiefs really knew what they were doing so when we had the second plane hit, we had to split them. i was in the north tower lobbying, we sent half of them to the south tower to try to get a handle on what was going on there and then when he we lost, many of them anyway, we were able to get many of them out of the lobby before the north tower collapsed but the south tower was surprised to everybody and the second tour hit, it was the first tower to come down. yes, yo...

Or are there still more things happening there? >> well, the official ceremony, ali, has concluded. and just to give you a little bit of perspective from where i am, we are one side of the pentagon. where the plane hit was the other side, the western end. it was a piece of the building that had been going through renovations at the time, so a lot of the offices there were closed, which upon reflection it has people going, thank god for that, because you could have twice as many people in the building had that not been the case. already, you had more than 100 people in the building who lost the...

Army medic and senior court officer, thomas took a jury van, usually to transport jurors and filled it with army supplies and road to twin towers after first plane hit and try today rescue people. his body sadly never reported brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush, brad, consolences at -- condolences of loss of thomas. you start thinking strategy, professional, responsibility, not knowing what was unfolding here? >> it was supposed to be a typical day, eric, at the white house. i had the president scheduled for 21 days and after the 9/11 the schedule went out the window and ...

Afghanistan, and in iraq, with the rising toll among the civilian casualties, with the apparent disregard that the u.s. does seem to have, when carrying out these wars, when it does come to civilian casualties, no matter what is said at the highest echelons of american power, there is this sense that america is actually not looking out for the interests of humanity as a whole, but quite simply for its own. no matter what the cost is to any other population. >> arwa damon in istanbul, thank you for that. a woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is sharing her story, she was speaking o...