Never Forget September 11
On the 10th anniversary of September 11, Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal remembers that day of horror and heroism. Especially touching was the bravery of the firemen of the New York Fire Department. She writes:
“And there were the firemen. They were the heart of it all, the guys who went up the stairs with 50 to 75 pounds of gear and tools on their back. The other people who were there in the towers, they were innocent victims, they went to work that morning and wound up in the middle of a disaster. But the firemen saw the disaster before they went into it, they knew what they were getting into, they made a decision. And a lot of them were scared, you can see it on their faces on the pictures people took in the stairwells. The firemen would be going up one side of the stairs, and the fleeing workers would be going down on the other, right next to them, and they'd call out, "Good luck, son," and, "Thank you, boys."
“They were tough men from Queens and Brooklyn and Staten Island, and they had families, wives and kids, and they went up those stairs. Captain Terry Hatton of Rescue 1 got as high as the 83rd floor. That's the last time he was seen.”
At National Review Online, frequent contributors remember that morning in an NRO Symposium. Here is the Wall Street Journal's coverage of today's events in New York City.
Three years ago, we devoted that day’s growls to remembering September 11. A few of links no longer work. However, the link to Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?” You Tube video still works. The link to Daryl Worly’s “Have You Forgotten” is here. The Arlington County’s 9/11 resource page link is also new.