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 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.