9/11 2020 edition

 

This year is the nineteenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.

Every year on this day I post an essay about my experience living in Manhattan a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11 (my husband was working in a building across the street from the Twin Towers when the planes hit).

I wondered if I should even post it this year, given how challenging 2020 has been, not just for our country, but for the world. Globally, a ...