for the frontline responders. that was 9 /12. that was that moment. it was fleeting, though. it was fleeting. i think the task we have as human beings is to ask ourselves what is it that gets us to be what we have the capability of being as good human beings? the lessons from 9/11 are also being passed from parents to their children. as brian mcguire told us, his teenaged son is now preparing to become a firefighter, just like his dad. my son is 18 years old. wasn t born, but just seeing what i m going through, i think he understands how it s still affecting people today. and i m glad he is taking my footsteps to be a fireman. he just graduated the fire academy and is going to be a firefighter, and i m proud to see that he is going to carry firefighting tradition on in our family. reporter: mcguire also remembers the sense of unity and patriotism that rose from the ashes in the days following 9/11.
reporter: it was fleeting, though. it was fleeting, again. our task as human beings is to ask ourselves what is it that gets us to be what we have the capability of being, good human beings? reporter: the lessons of 9/11 are also being passed from parents to their children. as brian maguire told us, his teenage son is preparing to become a firefighter just like his dad. my son is 18 years old. wasn t born. but seeing what i m going through, i think he understands how it s still affecting people today. and i m glad he s taking my footsteps to be a fireman. he just graduated the fire academy. he s going to be a firefighter. i m proud to see he s going to carry the firefighting tradition on in our family. reporter: maguire also remembers the sense of unity and patriotism that rose from the ashes in the days following 9/11. hundreds of people. hundreds of people were waving american flags. reporter: 20 years later, the survivors of 9/11 are fighting to keep that memory alive
he spent 53 years in prison and the man convicted of assassinating senator robert f. kennedy is being recommended now for parole. yeah, sirhan sirhan is 77 years old and he has gone before the parole board 16 times. this is now the closest that he has ever gotten to freedom. cnn s natasha chen has more. senator kennedy has been shot! reporter: possible release of the man who assassinated robert kennedy 53 years ago is dividing the family of the former u.s. presidential candidate and senator. in june of 1968, kennedy s ten children lost their father when sirhan sirhan shot him in the kitchen hallway of the ambassador hotel in los angeles. hold on to the guy! reporter: his 11th child, rory kennedy, wasn t born until later that year. now responding to a california parole board panel s recommendation last week to grant parole to her father s assassin, she wrote an op-ed in
hintry. at the time of his death, rfk was considered a favorite for the 1968 democratic presidential nomination. our natasha chen looks at how history could be rewritten, again. senator kennedy has been shot. is that possible? reporter: the possible release of the man who assassinated robert kennedy 53 years ago is dividing the family of the former-u.s. presidential candidate and senator. in june of 1968, kennedy s ten children lost their father when sirhan sirhan shot him in the kitchen hallway of the ambassador hotel in los angeles. hold onto the guy. his 11th child, rory kennedy, wasn t born until later that year. now, responding to a california parole board panel s recommendation last week to grant parole to her father s assassin, she wrote an op-ed in the new york times asking how? having committed one of the most notorious assassinations of the latter part of the 20th century can you be considered
lot. you are showing us what stockholder capitalism looks like, why are you pulling back the curtain? why is it important for us to know what s really happening? look, i have lived in elite america. i wasn t born in it but lived in it over the last 15 years. defining scam of our century that the american people need to see straight for what it is. it is that these companies pretend like they care about something other than profit and power precisely to gain more of each. i think that scam is actually wreaking havoc on american democracy. a small group of investors and ceos now get to determine behind closed doors what s actually good for the rest of society at large. i think that is polarizing our politics. it is racializing our society. it is dividing us to a breaking point. even in the theme of today, that we are talking about with the sad events unfolding in afghanistan, i look at the military industrial complex and the way they led america astray to profiteer from the middle east