I should have known about brothers Thomas and Peter Langone.

They were from the place where I grew up, Roslyn, New York, just outside New York City on Long Island. They were just a couple of years younger, but I didn’t know them.

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Each year on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks I try to remember something that I took away from the day that has stayed with me, or that I’ve learned since.

Among the many anniversary posts, I’ve written about the recording that Melissa Harrington Hughes left on...

I know, I know.

You just were being patriotic. You just were honoring the fallen and the surviving heroes of the World Trade Center.

You had good intentions. You didn’t profit from it.

Country first!

That’s what Sarah Palin or whoever runs her Facebook page likely was thinking when, on September 11, 2013, the following image...

While we take time this day to remember each in our own way 9/11, we should note that this is also the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead:  Christopher Stevens, an American ambassador; Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, former Navy SEALS; Sean Smith, an embassy aide.

On...

Beverly Eckert was on the phone with her husband when the twin tower where he worked collapsed. She shared her story about those final minutes speaking with her husband.

That last conversation changed her life.

Hold you love ones a little tighter. Be generous with love. And never pass up an...

Each anniversary of the 9/11 attack it’s important for me to learn something new when researching a post.

In past years I’ve learned of the recording that Melissa Harrington Hughes left on her home answering machine for her husband, 9/11/01 and Memory:

And...

On 9/11’s 10th anniversary I wrote a post that contained this observation:

For those of us who were grownups when 9/11 happened, it’s also been transmuted—not to something that was always there, but to something that’s been incorporated into our view of...

A new memorial center has been created in Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honor the people on United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in a field on September 11th when passengers fought back against the terrorists.

Here’s an Associated Press report via FOX News:

Flight 93 memorial visitor center is dedicated

A new visitor center has...

At 8:46 a.m. in New York on September 11, 2001, the first airplane hit the World Trade Center North Tower.

I was at my desk in Providence, RI, when I heard the first reports of a “small plane” hitting the World Trade Center. Seemed odd, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Morning...

Last year on September 11 Mandy had a wonderful and moving post. Thanks to David for reminding me of it.

Here is the post, excerpted, click on the link for the full original post:

Remembering September 11th and the importance of loved ones and endurance

Posted by Mandy Nagy  Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 9:30am

The...

For my thoughts, see my post in 2012, 9/11/01 and Memory.

This audio still is what I remember the most.

It was

The morning of September 11th, 2001, I was sitting in my office at a prior job, admiring the beautiful blue sky outside my window, when my phone rang.

“I can’t reach your brother anymore. His phone cut off. He was running and his phone just died,” my mother cried on the...

9/11/01 and Memory

… the sound of the PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) alarms worn by firemen, which continued chirping after the buildings collapsed, each one representing a life lost.  I never have been able to erase that sound from my memory.

For my thoughts, see my post last year, 9/11/01 and Memory

This audio still is what I remember the most.

We can add Melissa Harrington Hughes to our memory, along with Johnny “Mike” Spann, Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto, U.S. Army, Spc. Dennis Weichel and Lt. Roslyn Schulte.

Paul Krugman has a shameful column today, shameful even by Krugman standards.

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it...

Memory is a strange thing.

There are many things I remember about the attacks on 9/11/01:  The first announcement when I was at my desk in Providence that a “small plane” had hit the World Trade Center, the announcement of a second “small plane” and then the reality; the collapse of the...