• new york stories

    Remembering 9/11

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York. The remembrance ceremony is broadcast live every year on the major TV networks. Each year I plan to follow the live telecast in its entirety, but I can only bring myself to watch a few minutes of the ceremony before I switch the TV off – the telecast simply evokes and amplifies too many painful memories. In feeling this way, I can only assume I am not unlike many others who were here in New York on that sad and tragic day. I can still clearly recall…