My Experience in NYC on 9/11

 

 

Every year during the week of 9/11 I post a personal 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 post this essay because it’s important to me that people remember that morning twenty-two years ago – not the horror of it (though it was horrible), but the bravery that so many people displayed that day, facing adversity not just with coura...