September 10th, 2023

Reflections on 9/11/01 If you are thirty or over, you know exactly where you were twenty-two years ago this Monday. It is one of those flash memory dates, like the OJ Simpson verdict or JFK’s assassination. I was teaching at Borgia High School and on that day, for what- ever reason, our newfangled internet was on the fritz. (I am so old, I remember when we had to look things up in books.) So information that day came dribbling in slowly. In a sense, we heard about the attacks in slow motion. “Did you hear that a plane hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center?” Strangely, my first thought was of a small plane running off course and nicking the mammoth building. Then another plane hit. “That’s very peculiar,” I thought. It wasn’t until the Penta- gon was hit, that I really got scared. That got my full attention. And then we heard that, indeed both towers had fallen. We were under attack and I felt if it happened to the Pentagon, it can happen anywhere. Our principal at that [...]

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