1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,930 >> On 9-11, I was on active duty in the Navy Reserve, 2 00:00:03,930 --> 00:00:06,340 and I was having breakfast with a survivor of Pearl Harbor. 3 00:00:06,850 --> 00:00:08,120 And once we learned the planes 4 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:10,500 had hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 5 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:11,700 he turned to me and he said, 6 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:13,610 "This will be your generation's Pearl Harbor." 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,230 This place, Shanksville, 8 00:00:16,970 --> 00:00:18,290 the World Trade Center are important, 9 00:00:18,290 --> 00:00:20,780 because the rabbis tell us, when you're born, 10 00:00:20,780 --> 00:00:22,060 your book of life is open. 11 00:00:22,060 --> 00:00:24,340 And all the years of your life, the angels write in that book. 12 00:00:25,180 --> 00:00:26,900 But your book doesn't close when you die. 13 00:00:27,410 --> 00:00:30,420 It stays open as long as one person remembers your name. 14 00:00:30,990 --> 00:00:33,840 And these memorials help us to remember these people's names.