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Posted: 5:23 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011

Tulsan's react to the President Bush 9/11 interviews

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(Poll) Will you watch the President Bush 9/11 interviews on NatGeo?

Yes, I'm interested

91%

No, it's still too hard to watch

8%

By Rick Couri

As you watch the NatGeo interviews with former President George W. Bush, you can't help revisiting all the emotions of that day nearly ten years ago. The President's narrative began Sunday night with how he found out about the attacks on that day and his reaction immediately after. The President paints a vivid and painful picture of behind the scenes dealings with the horror. He makes it very clear he felt a human reaction as well as a sense of duty as Commander in Chief.


For nearly all of the rest of us, it was simply the astonished disbelief we felt as we watched the images on television and listened to the radio. I watched live in the KRMG newsroom as the second plane hit the south tower. We were then sent to the streets to report and I listened to KRMG in shock as the towers collapsed. We knew the President's interviews would bring back strong emotions for Tulsa so we once again went to the streets to gauge how you were feeling as the ten year mark approaches.


I first met Walt near the 9/11 memorial in Washington Irving Park in Bixby. Walt told me as a retired military officer, he took it the attacks very hard. "I spent twenty plus years serving in the military to keep freedoms and keep stuff like this off" he told me. Walt added "it angers me in some sense and it makes me sad for all the lives that were lost." Hear Walt's comments by clicking here. We'll hear more from Walt next week when we feature the Bixby 9/11 memorial he is referring to.


I also visited a group of ladies shopping. One of them told me she had a hard time getting back on a plane after 9/11. "It bothers me, it does" she said, "it makes me think twice." Her friend had the same thoughts but summed it up like this "I guess we just have to have faith in our fellow man."


KRMG will bring you pieces of the President Bush interviews all week and remember, the KRMG Morning News will mark the tenth year since the terror attacks with two days of live special programs from New York City beginning Sunday morning, September 11th.


 

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