Remembering 9/11 by Remembering Some of Those Who Lost Their Lives

Today is 9/11. Somehow it strikes me as odd to remember that day in the middle of a new calamity.

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly is a different calamity altogether. I’m not even sure it’s appropriate to compare the two but that’s where my mind is going.

Remembering 9/11 also makes me so conscious of the passage of time.

9/11 was 19 years ago! It’s interesting to think about who we were then and who we are now. My youngest was a baby in 2001. Now he’s a twenty-year-old stuck at home as his colle...