Twenty Years After 9/11, Make America Brave Again
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, footage of the second plane struck me as palpably as a punch to the gut. In those early hours, the unknowable death toll played second fiddle to the more immediate question of whether the attacks would stop. Was this another Pearl Harbor? The start of World War III? I was a long way from New York, but as a twenty-something engaged to be married that fall, I spent…