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Unfinished Business of 9/11/21

December 31, 2021 by WendyB

On Sept. 11, 2021 — the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — I published Part I of a blog post about the occasion. CLICK HERE FOR THE 9/11/21 BLOG POST. I planned to publish Part II the following day, but I didn’t. Nor did I publish it in all the days that followed,…

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Filed Under: 9/11, activism, In the News, politics

20 Years After 9/11, Part I

September 11, 2021 by WendyB

“The days are long, but the years are short.” I think of that saying every September 11. On that date in 2001, in the wake of the deadliest foreign terrorist attack on U.S. soil, it felt like time stopped, or, at least, that it should have, because how could life ever be the same? Instead,…

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Filed Under: 9/11, History, In the News, politics Tagged With: 9/11 anniversary, september 11

September 12 and the Wall Street Journal

September 9, 2021 by WendyB

The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is practically upon us. I’m working on a post about that, of course. In the meantime, I wanted to share a couple of things related to the Wall Street Journal and MrB (aka Paul Steiger, aka the managing editor of the WSJ from 1991 through 2007). The…

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Filed Under: 9/11, About Wendy, In the News, journalism

19 Years Later: Hypocrisy and Community

September 11, 2020 by WendyB

Nineteen years ago today, I was working at a building complex across the street from the World Trade Center. I was supposed to go to a meeting at my company’s WTC offices, but I decided I’d participate by phone instead. That was a stroke of luck, because that morning, 19 men — 15 of them…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 9/11, arrest trump, coronavirus, COVID-19, osama bin laden, pandemic, taliban

September 11 and Fear Itself

September 11, 2019 by WendyB

In 1933, the year the Great Depression reached its lowest point, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president and famously told the nation “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” It’s worth reading more of that speech today — the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Here is the whole first…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 9/11, abolish ice, afghan war

September 11: The 17th Anniversary

September 11, 2018 by WendyB

Seventeen years ago today, I was working across the street from the World Trade Center in what was then called the World Financial Center. Here’s what I’ve written about 9/11 since I started this blog, from the oldest post to the most recent. 2007: September 11 Is Here Again. 2008: Laughing While Crying, The Prodigal…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 2001, september 11, september 11 memories, World Financial Center, World Trade Center

September 11, 2017: “We Go Higher”

September 11, 2017 by WendyB

On September 11, 2001, 3,051 children ages 18 and under lost a parent during the coordinated terrorist attacks on the U.S. Those parents were in the airplanes that were turned into weapons, in the World Trade Center, and in the Pentagon. Some of their children now want to tell a story of hope through a…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: September 11 attacks, terrorism

15 Years After 9/11: The Story of Rick Rescorla

September 11, 2016 by WendyB

On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I recommend that you read (or re-read) the 2002 New Yorker story by James B. Stewart called, “The Real Heroes Are Dead.” It’s about an English-born Vietnam veteran named Rick Rescorla, who became the director of security for Morgan Stanley, a financial firm based in the…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 2001, 9/11, terrorism, trade center, twin towers, World Trade Center, wtc

Fourteen Years, and Marcy Borders

September 11, 2015 by WendyB

Last month, Marcy Borders died of stomach cancer. She had had a difficult life since Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, she was 28 and had been at her job at Bank of America for just a month. Her office was on the 81st floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. She…

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September 11: The Thirteenth Anniversary

September 11, 2014 by WendyB

I have not yet been to 9/11 Memorial Museum, but acquaintances who have gone photographed a display that tells the story of the Wall Street Journal’s Sept. 12, 2001, issue. That quote across the top — “I want a six-column headline!” — is from MrB. He was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal…

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Filed Under: 9/11, anniversaries, MrB stories

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