Sep 11 2008
Seven Years After 9-11, We Still Remember
I was listening to the 9-11 memorial on CNN this morning, and I was shocked that it has been seven years since the World Trade Center fell. That was a crazy day. I remember seeing the first tower fall on the tiny television in our Chicago office, and shortly afterward looking up at the Sears Tower once our building had been evacuated (the NeuStar offices were right across the street on Wacker). Hundreds of people crowded outside, and we were all sure that Chicago would be next, and we were standing under the biggest target. Just looking up.
Although I had never seen it before, I was very impressed with John Stewart’s words in the eve of September 11th, when he returned to the Daily Show after the tragedy. It was devastating for everyone, but worse still for those actually in New York that day. To be able to actually feel the ground shake, to see the clouds of debris, I can’t imagine what that was like. But “to grieve, but not depair,” that about sums up the American resolve going forward.
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