To me, September 11, 2001, feels like yesterday. Correction: It’s more vivid than yesterday, because I can’t remember what I ate yesterday, but I can still taste the toxic World Trade Center smoke and dust given the right trigger. It overwhelms me on the anniversary date; when the sky is a particular shade of blue;…
9/11 anniversary
20 Years After 9/11, Part I
“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,…