Today is the 18 memorial [I Remember 911]

9/11 is singed into my memory. I traveled through the WTC often on business, taking the PATH train from Newark. I've eaten in Windows on the World Restaurant at the top of the North Tower (106th and 107th floors) quite a few times. I remember looking down from the large windows and seeing a small plane flying below. Little did I know at the time. One of my best friends that I worked with passed by the elevators that were affected in the first bombing in 1993. I thought he had been injured when I couldn't reach him, but it turned out that he was on the train under the Hudson River having just left a couple minutes before the bomb detonated. He had gone to school with the pilot of American Airlines 11 that crashed into the North Tower on 9/11. It was a surreal day, and I was heartened when the whole country came together afterword. Sadly, it didn't last. Today is a good day for reflection.

Yes, I remember the first time I saw American flags hanging from overpasses. Too often a political party seems to be implying that love of country is only for the side who makes the most noise about it. But at that time, flags from the overpasses seemed to be exactly right.

Yes. It is. I'm a nurse, and I have been on the front line of this pandemic from the very beginning, and have witnessed people losing loved ones to this thing. I myself have relatives who have succumbed to this virus. We have to stayed prayed up. [image deleted]

A day that brings back bad memories and sadness.

Listening to POTUS, he is droaning on! Someone needs to remind him that Lincoln's few words at Gettysburg are remembered by generations of young people! A short speech is most often better than s long one.

Yes the world is evil now