OPINION: On 9/11, ‘The World Hears You’ once again
Amid the hate, division and anger that plagues the country, the memory of 9/11 and of those who died still manages to unite and inspire New Yorkers.
Seventeen years have passed, but for millions of Americans it is still like yesterday. Millions of New Yorkers remember getting a call from a friend asking, “Did you hear what happened?” and then turning on their televisions to watch an unspeakable tragedy unfold. The twin towers, the icon of American greatness, were reduced to burning rubble. It was hard to believe what we were watching with our own eyes.
As they read the names of the dead at a ceremony at ground zero, New York will watch in tears. Brooklyn and Queens were home to a great many of the first responders who lost their lives on that terrible morning. They will forever be our heroes.