My name is Greg Saathoff and I'm a psychiatrist, I am professor of emergency medicine and public health sciences here in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia. 

I also serve as the psychiatric consultant to the FBI's behavioral analysis units. I had been scheduled to give a four hour presentation at the FBI academy on September 11th, the assistant special agent in charge had asked me if I would speak to a large group of FBI agents about post-traumatic stress disorder and two medical students actually were working with me on my elective and so I told them that I could take them out to the FBI academy on that day and as we were driving uh on 95 North my phone rang when I picked it up it, the speaker came on and uh this was a one of the assistants at the FBI academy and she was very apologetic she said I'm not sure that we can get your uh your presentation um onto a um a disc to present your slides because of what's been going on around here and so I said, Pam is there some kind of problem? And she said well I guess you don't know but two planes have hit the World Trade Center and one of the towers just fell down and they think the other one might come down. 

So I turned the radio on and it was a newscast, one newsman talking to another and saying this is just a a horrific sight this is just a terrible sight who would have ever thought that this would happen at the Pentagon. 

And the three of us at the same time as we are headed towards Quantico said "The Pentagon?" The world really changed in in a major way. I was asked more and more to consult regarding issues relating to to terrorism and international terrorism I had been involved in working on domestic terrorism cases and that was part of my role. 

Also, I would say that I was really honored to be asked by the chief of the fire department here in Charlottesville to to go to New York to pick up the 9/11 steel some years later and to go up to New York uh with uh members of our fire department to accept that was really an extraordinary privilege and honor. 

There's no way that anyone who has been affected by 9/11 can approach this topic except with the greatest of humility the stories, the most important stories won't ever be told because of the people whose lives were were cut short.