The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We cannot escape history. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.Today is another early fall New York day: Warm, cloudless, the sky an aching blue. This morning officials and victims' families gathered at Ground Zero and found comfort in names. Jeff Jarvis was there.-- Abraham Lincoln
Two years will have passed since those attacks . . . And while the passage of time heals injured hearts, it also poses a bit of a danger, a danger that as those events grow more distant there's at least the possibility that people hoping to get on with their lives will begin slowly to forget. And it's important that we not forget.-- Donald Rumsfeld
Individual stories:
My absolute favorite 9-11 story of dedication and transformation - it makes me cry every time I read it. (Here is the complete NYT article.)
An audio montage from news archives on 9-11. Including the black box.
102 minutes inside the WTC and the Port Authority tapes. - interactive sites with diagrams, voice-over anecdotes, photos, emails.
Scroll down for many individual anecdotes from that day.
The line between life and death was the 91st floor.
Voices: Michelle's project of remembrance. In the right-hand column you will find a long list of links to individual stories by bloggers.
More 9-11 stories.
Howard's story.
Ilyka's story.
Dan's story.
Jonathan's story.
Meryl's story and several others.
Lesley's story and more. And what she wrote then.
John's memory of a perfect sky.
Rossi's story.
Social Reject's story.
Mike's story.
Geoff's story.
Tacitus' story.
Phelps' story.
Sgt. Mom's story and several more in the comments.
A story from Capitalist Lion.
A story from Virtual Sanity.
Christopher's story.
Boswell's story.
Darren's story.
Porphyrogenitus' story.
As it happened through the eyes of the dean of the blogosphere.
More links from Ilyka.
The last person found alive in the debris of Ground Zero.
Photos from Brooklyn.
What the Twin Towers meant to one immigrant from Iran.
She saw her father's death on TV - over and over.
The saga of Rick Rescorla.
The heroism and hospitality of Gander, Newfoundland.
The flight attendants who fought the shoe bomber tell their story.
Links about the attack on the Pentagon.
Victims of the Pentagon attack.
Memorial site for Flight 93.
Lyzbeth Glick remembers her husband, one of the heroes of Flight 93.
"They only had us on the mat for 109 minutes." Another remembrance of Flight 93.
Victims of the World Trade Center attacks, by country.
Portraits of Grief from the NYTimes.
More memorial sites:
This is a Jewish blog. Some Jewish victims of 9-11.
The memorial wall in the Union Square subway station. I walk past that about twice a week.
Lesley's remembrances of her co-workers who came to work on time.
Memorial pages from Silent Running ("Kufirs with long memories") and Sgt. Stryker and Donald Sensing and Dissident Frogman and Tina and Matthew Stinson and Jane Galt and AmericanZine (most unusual photo of the towers).
The Black Day.
Memorial site of the FDNY.
Memorial site of the NYPD.
Memorial site for passengers of Flight 11.
Reactions around the world.
"In commemoration of all those who were lost on September 11th, 2001, TD Waterhouse will join the New York Stock Exchange in observing four separate moments of silence."
Words words words:
A retrospective on the purple prose generated by the attacks. Well I recall tuning into NPR that evening (one of the last times I listened to NPR) and being horrified at the fatuous guilt-mongering of Lewis Lapham et al. I mean, it hadn't yet been 24 hours, and these pompous fools were already lecturing us on how we had it coming.
Sheila O'Malley also has some choice words for the mea culpa crowd.
Poems:
110 stories.
When the Towers Fell.
There Will Be No Peace.
Another day came.
No One Came Home.
Saddest Day of My Life.
To a Terrorist.
The Missing.
9/11 Before and After
Archives:
Tons of links at Winds of Change.
Archive of New Yorker reporting about 9-11.
The 9-11 archive of the City University of New York.
Archived news footage.
Here is New York photo archive.
CNN: America remembers and 2001 archive.
New York Times coverage 9-11-03. Be sure to scroll down for the photo slideshows and the interactive articles about the attacks, the collapse of the buildings, etc. (for the geek in all of us).
Root causes:
Remember, this war had already been going on for awhile.
Palestinians celebrate the 9-11 attacks. (Yes, the footage is real.)
Why U.S.? asks a documentary.
Michael Totten answers with a lot of photos and some words from Paul Berman.
They don't care if you are on the "left" or the "right."
Blaming the Jooooooos.
The Islamic Council of Britain meets today to celebrate the anniversary of 9-11.
Mohammed Atta's final instructions.
Taliban Uses Anniversary to Renew 'Jihad' Call.
Bernard Lewis.
An Egyptian intellectual apologizes.
Global sympathy for the USA after 9-11 was just a minor blip in a longstanding antagonism.
rossi always tells it like it is.
Looking forward:
Some ideas from Jewish tradition about meaningful rituals for mourning the event and incorporating it into our national consciousness. (Specifically, Passover, Yom Kippur, and Yom Ha-Zikaron.)
Damian Penny has some acerbic thoughts on "closure."
Michelle Malkin is angry at incompetent and venal bureaucrats.
Stephen Green is angry but not terrified.
Yuck.
The gradual restoration of Ground Zero.
Winds of Change asks: The key enablers and co-conspirators for September 11: Where are they now? Lots of links and analysis in the thorough WoC manner.
Never Again.
PS I added some late links here.
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