Monday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I've learned from 9/11
1. I remember waking up and going to work on Sept. 11, 2001. At the time I was working at a call centre for a growing company with franchises throughout the U.S. The lines were almost dead, and we were...
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The 10 at 10: December 21
1. The best fiction of 2010 (according to EW)2. Wanna see the new World Trade Center? Wanna see it animated?3. Awesome people doing awesome things while dressed like Santa Claus.4. This is a camera....
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How My Dad Miraculously Found Me in the 9/11 Attacks
What was it like to evacuate a high school eight blocks from the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001?September 11, 2001, was my fourth day of high school at Stuyvesant High, the magnet-school giant...
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A Cab Ride Through 9/11
NYC cab drivers’ stories of 9/11 continue to haunt them, forever redefining what it means to be a cab driver in NYC.I grew up on the East Coast, and my father made the commute from Connecticut into...
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Open Thread: What’s Your 9/11 Memory?
Open Discussion:What’s your 9/11 story? We all have our own 9/11 story. For all too many it’s the loss of a loved one in the attacks, or the memory of fleeing a burning building, or frantically...
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Time Lapse Video of the New World Trade Center Tower (Video)
Looking at the goodness that was built after 9/11. Three years, one city.According to EarthCam:EarthCam has released a special edition of their commemorative September 11th anniversary time-lapse,...
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The Good Men Playlist: Remembering 9/11
James Stafford remembers the World Trade Center attack and its aftermath with a playlist. —This year marks the twelfth anniversary of the fall of the Twin Towers. The attack was a landmark event for...
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Experience Joy and Sorrow In the Same Moment: On the 50th Anniversary of...
Sherri Rosin has a quiet gratefulness for being able to hold onto the moments of joy in times of great sadness.—-On that eventful day I was ordered by my doctor to stay in bed because I was in my 3rd...
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And the Student Said Unto Me: “Jesus Will Save You From Your Homosexual...
Dr. Warren Blumenfeld on the intersection of war, religion, homophobia and the “ultimate truth.”“But now we got weapons,Of the chemical dust.If fire them we’re forced to,Then fire them we must.One...
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9-11 and the Lingering Aftermath
As we remember and honor all who died on 9/11, we must care and support all those still suffering from the resulting health and disability challengesThirteen years ago today, on September 11, 2001, 19...
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Muslims For Life: American Muslims Stand Up to Save Lives on 9/11
We shall never forget the 3,000 who lost their lives on 9/11. Let us remember them, then, by saving 30,000 lives. And in saving life, let us make sure that history will never be the same.—She was...
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Counter Clockwise
Telaina Eriksen recalls the surreal, backwards feeling that many of us felt on 9/11.—Counter ClockwiseThe cashier at Meijer was listless, shocked. She scanned my milk, eggs,bread. “My son is stationed...
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How My Miscarriage Brought Out My Husband’s Need to Nurture
Embed from Getty Images —The first time I miscarried was right after my father died of lung cancer, and my only consolation at the time was that when I asked my father on his hospice bed if he was...
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American Greatness is Already Here
Embed from Getty Images—One of our candidates this election season is running on the mantra ‘Make America Great Again.’ I personally think America has been pretty darn great for a long time. Sure,...
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11/9: America’s Next 9/11?
Embed from Getty Images—In the wake of our many remembrance ceremonies commemorating the sad and tragic events of September 11, 2001, I had a time-warp moment.Like most Americans, I remember where I...
View Article‘We Will See the Status Quo Challenged’: Utah Millennials Want In
Embed from Getty ImagesThe Utah state legislature has zero millennials.Don Willie has some feelings about that.“We need the perspective and experiences of younger leaders now,” he wrote. “We will see...
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A 9/11 Reflection: Why We Serve?
9/11 is a tragedy. Many have served and responded in diverse ways since the unspeakable event on 9/11/01. There have been many lives lost on Ground Zero and other places around the world as a result of...
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911-I Will Not Fear
Like the day JFK and John Lennon were killed, most people can tell you where they were when they heard the news that terrorists had devastated the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and crash-landed a...
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Remembering 9/11 and My Dear Friend Doug
Like many native New Yorkers, I lost someone close to me on September 11, 2001. And even though it’s been nearly two decades since my childhood friend died during the terrorist attacks, I still think...
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What Does It Mean To ‘Never Forget’?
Those two words, “Never Forget” echo in our minds over the past two decades since four planes were used as weapons to wreak havoc and destruction and take lives. 2977 people died between the three...
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