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This picture of my sister was taken in August, just a few weeks before the 9/11 tragedy in 2001. I wrote this post on the ten-year anniversary in 2011. Until then, I had not written anything about 9/11, barely talked about it, and refused to watch any of the awful footage. I publish this every year so that I will never forget.
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Thank you for posting this vivid, heart wrenching account. To this day, I’m speechless and tearful when reading or hearing accounts from those who confronted the horror first hand. I remember my own reactions when a friend called to say “we’re under attack,” Turn on tv and don’t go to my appt. at a govt bldg near our state’s Capitol bldg. One my thoughts was about Michael Lomonaco because I used to watch Epicurious and had a few of his cookbooks.
Take care.
Lovely tribute.
Thank you for posting. Again.
Wow! What an emotional story. Thank you for sharing
So moving, so powerful. It means a lot to me to read your beautiful terrible heartfelt words and reflect on that day through your post.
What an excellent and also sad commentary of that horrific day. Thank you for your bravery in publishing it.
Very profound and familiar, Virginia. I remember walking a couple blocks southeast from my apartment to the hospital to give blood. I was turned away because they said they had no survivors yet who needed it. They said they’d call me to come back when they needed it. They didn’t. 😢
Your essay is one of the very few that I can read every year. 🥰
Amazing piece, Chef. I am republishing an article that I wrote in Atlanta on 9/11 in my South of God blog. Still powerful images. I still remember the next day, the children of Holy Innocents who were on the field, say a large transport plane flying into Dobbins. Fueled by images of the prior day, the broke into a terrorized run toward shelter. Our landscape had changed forever.
Now, we have to worry more about domestic terrorism than threats from outside.
Great love,
David+