On this 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I am repeating a post from the 20th anniversary, which was little more than a link to a webpage prompted by the 1st anniversary. Neither these blog posts nor the webpage they reference are all that significant, but remembering the events behind them is extremely important. It is also important to remember the nation’s complete unity in the days following the attacks. The memory of that unity is a large part of what gives me hope today. Let’s do that again.

Nineteen years ago, on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed so many innocent people in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in a Pennsylvania field, I posted some of my related memories on this site. A standalone web page was used as this blog did not yet exist. The page was accessible for many years through a link on this site’s home page. That link was eventually removed during a site layout change. However, the page itself remained in place for some time even though there was no way to access it other than entering its URL. Early this year, when the site was moved to its current host, the page was among those not making the move, so that even a direct URL became useless. Today, on the twentieth anniversary of those attacks, I have restored the page and am providing access to it here and through the image above, even though the page continues to be much more personally therapeutic than generally informative.