Bravery and Loss on 9/11

that it was coming down.

He didn't care. It was an amazing act of bravery.

I also wanna recognize Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick,

who lost his brother and 658

employees.

He was the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the most successful firms on Wall

Street. They were the top three floors of the

World Trade Center.

It's an amazing story. You know, Howard was always there at

6:00 o'clock in the morning, always, without fail, because in

that business you get

there nice and early, the financial business.

He was one of the biggest

anywhere in the world at finance. Cantor Fitzgerald was one of the

hottest firms. And

for years he'd be there at 6:00 in the morning, but he had a child, and his wife

would always be screaming at him, "You never have taken our

child to school. You've gotta take...

Someday you've gotta take..." And this went on for years.

After four years, he said, "All right, I'll,

I'll take him to school. I'm gonna bring him to school myself." He

wasn't so

happy about it.

He brought that beautiful boy, who's now a grown person, uh, brought him

to school, and he arrived at the school at

8:30, and he was on the West Side Highway at

8:45,

and he watched that whole thing. This was the first time in

years that he wasn't there early in the morning.

So, uh, you could say he owes a lot to his son,

and he owes a lot to his

wife. But he brought his, uh, son to school, and

because of that, he got to see it from the West Side

Highway. He saw the planes go into the towers,

and he said, "Oh my God.

My people. My people."

And he's done-