Editorial: Remembering 9-11
On the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Brooklynites are stopping to pay tribute to the people lost on that fateful day and the heroes who put themselves in harm’s way to help strangers.
For those of us living in the city on September 11, 2001 — a day that began in sunlight but quickly darkened as the news of first one and then a second plane flying into the Twin Towers gave way to a plume of smoke that obscured the sky — the feeling of horror in all our hearts has lasted way past the time when the smoke finally cleared.
As many have said, remembering what transpired is critically important.