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My name is Greg Saathoff and i'm a psychiatrist 
I am professor of emergency medicine and public  

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health sciences here in the school of medicine at 
the University of Virginia. I also serve as the  

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psychiatric consultant to the FBI's behavioral 
analysis units I had been scheduled to  

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give a four hour presentation at the FBI academy 
on September 11th, the assistant special agent in  

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charge had asked me if I would speak to a large 
group of FBI agents about post-traumatic stress  

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disorder and two medical students actually were 
working with me on my elective and so I told them  

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that I could take them out to the FBI academy on 
that day and as we were driving uh on 95 North  

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my phone rang when I picked it up it the speaker 
came on and uh this was a one of the assistants at  

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the FBI academy and she was very apologetic she 
said i'm not sure that we can get your uh your  

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presentation um onto a um a disc to present your 
slides because of what's been going on around here  

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and so I said Pam is there some kind of problem? 
And she said well I guess you don't know but  

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two planes have hit the world trade 
center and one of the towers just fell  

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down and they think the other one might 
come down so I turned the radio on and  

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it was a newscast one newsman talking to another 
and saying this is just a a horrific site this is  

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just a a terrible site who would have ever thought 
that this would happen at the pentagon. And the  

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three of us at the same time as we are headed 
towards Quantico said the Pentagon? The world  

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really changed in in a major way I was asked more 
and more to consult regarding issues relating to  

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to terrorism and international terrorism I had 
been involved in working on domestic terrorism  

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cases and that was part of my role. Also, I would 
say that I was really honored to be asked by the  

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chief of the fire department 
here in Charlottesville to  

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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  

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members of our fire department to accept that 
was really an extraordinary privilege and honor.  

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There's no way that anyone who has been 
affected by 9/11 can approach this topic  

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except with the greatest of humility 
the stories the most important stories  

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won't ever be told because of the 
people whose lives were were cut short.