Gerard Vanderleun — who was just across the river from Manhattan, in Brooklyn Heights, when the WTC was hit — has posted his own memories of that day:

• The Wind in the Heights
• Notes made on September 11, 2001 — Brooklyn Heights

I’ll simply link to my posts from last year, as well as Bruce Henderson’s:

• In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza
• Remembering the WTC
• We Will Never Forget (Bruce Henderson)

This was an act of war — a simultaneous attack on our financial, military and political centers that cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Pity we have lost sight of that:

..bruce..