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And it's -- you can't say that it was about afghanistan. every suicide is a unique event, and you can never say, well, this is why. but we've lost 30,000 post-9/11 veterans to suicide. >> you know, it's hard when you get back. you lose friends, you know, to suicide. >> green is for a new era of prosperity. >> they survive all that, or they go back again as their sixth deployment and they don't make it home from that one. >> coming home was a difficult process. you just had this experience of being ripped away from everything you knew and loved, thrown in the middle of a war

♪. ♪ red, white, and blue ♪ pete: country star behind this post-9/11 anthem has a new message for america. listen to what toby keith had to say as we mark 20 years since the attacks. >> let's all gather together, our families together, pray that god will keep us safe the rest of our lives and forever here in the great united states of america. we have all know where we were during 9/11 and the impact it had on this world. never forget. always remember. stay vigilant and never apologize for being patriotic. pete: never apologize for being patriotic. that's right. keith sharing this video ...

I mean that was the sense of american success, and the sense that we were different, and that the image of america for world history forever. democratic norms. there is only one alternative. and we won. and our kids are not being raised in that world. it's not just the afghanistan war, the iraq war, the financial disaster and now the pandemic. this notion of american exceptionalism i think is gone and the post-9/11 world created in response, in response to our reaction, to 9/11 made us mort until many ways. i mean it sort of brought us d down-to-earth. and i think we are struggling and that ge...

My heart just dropped and the first thought that i had was, god, please don't make it muslims. i can't bear if this is done by people who call themselves muslim. >> just feeling like fear and, you know, in the pit of my stomach, one, for my family in new york but also what i felt were just there. >> with my parents living in texas, in a small town, a farming town, i was really worried about their safety in the immediate aftermath because of the post-9/11, you know, anti-immigrant backlash. >> whenever there is any type of attack, how many of you think to yourselves, geez, i really hope the per...

Here at home in a similar and bold manner to what we have done for counterterrorism. >> you know, it's interesting to you say that because one of the thing yz have been struck with when i go back and read the literature of the post-9/11 era was this sense that, like, obviously this was the challenge of the 21st century. obviously, this was apockal and defining. obviously, this was our battle in the third reich. obviously, this is going to define civilization, that seems preposterous now, honestly, it seems preposterous to think that was the thing that was going to be the defining story of the ...