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...
View ArticleMuslims 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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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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleAmerican 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,...
View Article11/9: 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 ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleTime 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleExperience 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...
View ArticleAnd 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...
View Article9-11 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...
View ArticleMuslims 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...
View ArticleCounter 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleAmerican 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,...
View Article11/9: 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...
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