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Twenty-five years after the towers fell, Paul sits down with Connell McShane at Ground Zero to tell his 9/11 story in full for the first time — from quitting his Wall Street job the week before, to searching the Winter Garden with his National Guard unit, to volunteering for what became Iraq. Fox Business correspondent Connell McShane and retired combat pilot Glenn Ignazio join him to remember what unity actually looked like — and to ask what we owe the kids who weren’t yet born.

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“The worst thing I’ve ever seen. And the most beautiful.” 9/11, 25 years later.
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Twenty-five years later, Paul Rieckhoff finally tells his own 9/11 story in full. Sitting at Ground Zero with Fox Business correspondent…

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Paul tells his 9/11 story in full for the first time on the show. from quitting Wall Street the week before to linking up with his New York National Guard unit

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Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the to. Searching the Winter Garden and the shattered base of the towers, with truck horns signaling possible collapses

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“I’m not from the 82nd Airborne. We live here.”. the citizen-soldier reality of that first week

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“The worst thing I’ve ever seen. And the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”. Paul on what unity actually looked like

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