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September 11th is , is a really

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meaningful day for me . I grew up in

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New Jersey . My , for my whole life ,

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my dad has commuted to and from

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Manhattan for work , he spent a long

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time working in the World Trade Center .

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So on 911 , he had a lot of , a lot of

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friends that he knew who were affected ,

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many of them sadly passed away . So

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that's been something that's , that's

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really stuck with me . Uh has been a ,

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was a big part of my childhood growing

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up . I was able to see up close the way

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that communities came together to

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support people , people , people across

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New York City across Manhattan , ran

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into trouble to , to do anything that

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they could , to support folks who , who

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lost loved ones and , and to try to

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save lives on that day . So for me , as

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I , as I use it as a day to , to

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reflect and , and to think back on what

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happened in the lives lost . It's ,

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it's important to me that we remember

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the people who died by using the

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resources that are out there to find

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the stories of their lives and , and to

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honor those people and to also honor

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the heroism that a lot of people showed

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that day . It's a , it's a lesson for

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us in , in selflessness and looking out

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for our neighbor . There's plenty of

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stories of people who I know and who I

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grew up with and around , um , who lost

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people that day in the New York , New

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Jersey tri-state area . Uh , it's ,

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it's hard to find someone who wasn't

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affected in , in some type of way and ,

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and just a small thing that we can do ,

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uh , in our day to day lives , looking

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out for our neighbors trying to help

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our teammates along , giving up

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something from ourselves to make sure

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that other people , uh , are ok , is ,

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is something that I'll try to take from

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this and , and move forward with .