Me and the Towers, September 11th, 2001 (photo by Sara) On September 11th, 2001 I was a twenty year old college student living in lower Manhattan. So were many of my friends. On the 10th Anniversary of the attacks, I asked them to join in me writing out the events of the day as we experienced them. Average American kids… Read more →
Category: September 11th Tribute
Never Forget.
{photo by Sara Moe} I was twenty years old and sleeping about a mile uptown when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Life changed in an instant. When Osama Bin Laden was killed, I found this letter I’d written to my Rabbi after a day of horror. Hi Rabbi Brown: It’s good to hear that the Temple will… Read more →
Hey, It’s Me Again.
I never know how to come back from heavy stuff. All week I’ve read my friends beautiful posts over and over and thought “I gotta wrap this up” but how do you wrap up something like this? Especially when I still have posts I want to link to like THIS ONE from my fellow NYU Alum {link very graphic} Tracy… Read more →
Melaina: Creepy Internet Friend
I didn’t know Melaina (not her name) on 9/11, but I know her now…as the infectious Ex-Pat Mom of a toddler in Glasgow whom I became friends with despite continents and oceans between us. Until Melaina, I had never known anyone who was living in DC on 9/11 – she was a 21-year-old student at The George Washington University. This… Read more →
Katie Notopoulos: Mad Internet Scientist
The night of 9/11, I called a recent ex-boyfriend around 11pm. “I just don’t think you should be alone tonight….” I said in my faux-concern for his well-being. He wasn’t taking the bait, and understandably he didn’t want to risk the subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Rejected. I called another ex who lived out of town and I had… Read more →
Neal Dusedau: Screenwriter, Wine Guy, Glue
I woke up to the phone ringing. It was my dad. He was on the roof of his office building in New Jersey, watching smoke pour out of the World Trade Center. A plane had collided into one of the towers. Weird. I tried to go back to sleep. I couldn’t. By the time I had the tv on, the… Read more →
Sara Moe: Mother, Photographer, Keeper of Memories
{Sara took this picture yesterday. I thought you could use some cheer.} {Ten Years Ago today, Sara shot this, and the other photos that have appeared in this series on a roll of reversal film still in her camera from our trip to Prague that summer. This is her story:} At 8:46am, as flight 11 crashes into the North Tower,… Read more →
Keeley McNamara: Midwife, Mother, Lover of Life
When Morgan asked me to write this piece, I thought, eh. I really hate talking about September 11th. It makes me angry when I’m forced to listen to other people’s experiences, so why would I want to make people hear mine? What I have realized over the last ten years though, is that while my experience on September 11th and… Read more →
Lindsey Anthony: Playwright, Thinker, Documentarian
A world no longer familiar When I try to recall the my life on 9/11, what comes are moments, feelings, a handful of lines, but somewhere a loose story that is pieced together by bursts of panic, what I think are my own memories washed with the images playing non-stop on the news, and a narrative that gets further away… Read more →
Amy Hunt: Speech Pathologist, Thrift Store Connoisseur, Romantic.
{Amy and I on the roof of our East Village Apartment, 9.11.2001 — M} At 8:45am on September 11th, 2001, I went to class. I woke up early that morning, before my alarm had gone off, presumably because the noise of the first airplane startled me awake. I watched as the second airplane hit the World Trade Center and the… Read more →