As he reflects on those days in Gander, and the feeling across the United States immediately following 9/11, Vitale wonders where that spirit has gone. “I remember coming back and how everybody was so united and how today we’re so divided,” he said. “And I ask myself: Can we have some of that unity without the pain that caused the unity? I don’t think that’s too much to ask. But evidently it is. We’ve lost the ability to come together in America. And I’m worried about the future. I don’t know how we move forward in any kind of harmony.”
