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On September 11, 2001, I was 25 years old and a member of @JetBlue's founding marketing team. I spent more than 24 hours as part of our emergency command center team, helping manage diverted flights and supporting the airline’s response and recovery efforts in any way we could. Two days later, I returned to my apartment at 57th Street-about four and a half miles, or the equivalent of roughly 90 short Manhattan blocks, from Ground Zero. The smoke had traveled that far uptown. The air was cloudy and filled with a powerful smell that reminded me of burning plastic. The haze was so thick that headlights cut through it on the streets below. I will never forget it. That day taught me how quickly hatred and dehumanization can turn into unimaginable violence. As a Jew, I understand the danger of ideologies that target people because of who they are. The scourge of radical Islamist terrorism must be confronted with clarity and resolve-just as we must confront antisemitism and every form of violent extremism. Naming that ideology is not an indictment of Islam or Muslims; it is a refusal to ignore those who weaponize faith to justify murder. Twenty-five years later, as terrorism, antisemitism and dehumanizing hatred remain painfully present, the lesson of September 11 still matters: we must defend freedom without surrendering our humanity. We remember those who were murdered, honor those who ran toward danger and remain grateful to everyone who helped our country recover. We owe them nothing less.

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