by Jean P. Charles
Every September 11, the term “never forget” is repeated.
I was in Soho on that terrible day in 2001. The internet and cell phone outages in the office were my first indicators that something was wrong. The sirens blaring and the emergency vehicles traveling in the wrong direction on Broadway heightened my concerns. I walked out to Prince and West Broadway where the Twin Towers were visible to confirm the horror.
The geographic or social proximity of thousands of lives lost was hard to process on a personal level. Nationally, the US psyche became a little more fragile as the terrorism we would routinely see elsewhere was suddenly front and center on home soil.
We can all agree that what happened that day was evil and almost unimaginable.
Two questions that come to mind are:
Did the US do anything to deserve this?
Could any proactive enforcement protocols have prevented this?