Friday Cut Sheet Turns Fully To 9/11
Friday’s Cut Sheet turns to college students being asked who attacked America on 9/11, and their answers send us into a pointed discussion about schools, parents and basic history education. The final stretch of the hour is built around voices from the attacks. We play Betty Ong’s Flight 11 call, where her calm delivery gives ground personnel crucial details about the hijacking, and then Brian Sweeney’s final voicemail to his wife from Flight 175. We talk about the composure inside those calls, the love directed toward family in the face of death and the responsibility to pass these accounts…
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