Guest Op-Ed: Moving forward from 9/11
BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT ERIC ADAMS
On the 13th anniversary of 9/11, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum hosted its annual commemorative ceremony at the World Trade Center site, and many Brooklynites joined the event in person, with more watching on television or taking part in remembrances across our borough.
But you might be surprised, as I am each passing year, how the ceremony itself—and our collective memory of that tragic day—seem to fade in importance as we go about our fast-paced lives. It’s been 13 years, and the momentum of life itself seems to make many of us think that the chance of anything happening again is remote.