Hi everybody this is Gad Sad for the Sad Truth. I wanted to take a few minutes to

commemorate the anniversary of the tragic 9-11 event that happened 14 years ago and I thought that I would begin by sharing

where I was on that day and I encourage you if you'd like to post a comment recounting where you were on that day.

It's a small measure to try to honor all those who lost their lives on that day going to work, going on a tourist run, not

knowing that at any moment their lives would be ended in the most horrific of ways.

As some of you know, there is this concept of episodic memory which basically captures the set of recollections that we have when something truly iconic happens.

So for example, people talk about the day that JFK was assassinated as the classic example of

episodic memory.

Well of course in our collective conscience 9-11 is now the epitome of that episodic memory trace.

In my case I was a visiting professor at University of California Irvine.

I was there from 2001 to 2003 and I just started my visiting stint feeling excited, feeling happy, and I woke up, came downstairs to see my

wife and her sister who was visiting us from Montreal, transfixed in front of the TV with a facial grimaces that did not seem to be quite normal.

It's something that you wouldn't expect.

And then I kind of rushed down to look at the TV and it literally took my brain a

Few minutes to process what I was seeing on TV

So we should all take a moment to honor the people who passed away on that horrifying day and one of the ways that we can honor them is to recognize the fact

that our freedoms and our liberties are something that we have to fight for and be

vigilant about every single day.

Ronald Reagan said, some of you may know the quote,

and I may not remember the exact quote,

but something like that freedom is, you know, only one generation

away from extinction. And he was exactly right, right? It doesn't take much for that which you take

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