September 11: Twenty Years Later

Who can believe it’s been twenty years since that fateful day? I sure can’t.

I’ve written a few other posts about this event: One about how the Smithsonian chose to collect from this event and another that touched on lesser-known stories of the day (like the trucker whose responsibility was driving a literal truckload of bodybags to New York City. Oof.) They’re linked at the end.

There will be an abundance of pundits, journalists, public figures, and folks with much wider audiences than I do who will reflect on the past twenty years through the context of our national unity, where we’ve been and where we’re going as a country, foreign and domestic policy, the lives given and lost over the past two decades as a result of the attacks, and most recently, the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.

I won’t do any of that because I can’t offer anything more informed or insightful than what will be said.

Instead, this is my personal experience of the day.