{"id":17985,"date":"2021-09-11T02:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17985"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:05:57","slug":"20-years-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20-years-of-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It was a normal Tuesday morning, 20 years ago this morning, when someone stopped by my desk to say that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and that we were under attack. \u00a0Little did I know that for once, Chicken Little was right and the sky really was falling.<\/p>\n

Most of the morning remains a blur. \u00a0Updates were hard to get through traditional sources and most of the news I was getting was from the old Warren Ellis forum on Delphi and whatever incarnation of the Bendis Board was up at the time.\u00a0 At one point, I went out to my car to get an update from the Howard Stern show, which at the time was on a one hour tape delay here in Chicago, but we were one of the few markets that cut away from the show in order to simulcast a news station.<\/p>\n

We all know what happens next: the Pentagon gets hit, another flight crashes in Pennsylvania, and, eventually, the towers fell.\u00a0 We went to a pretty deserted Superdawg for lunch that day, listening to the radio for updates the entire time.\u00a0 I remember the eerie drive to the gym after work, as people were as polite as they’ve even been on the roads.<\/p>\n

The legacy of that day is messy.\u00a0 Two long, ill-advised wars followed.\u00a0 The nation united in a way that it is unable, or unwilling, to do today, as the COVID pandemic, our biggest tragedy since the 9\/11 attacks, continues to rage as the right battles against both masks and vaccinations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a day that, for a little while, unified the country, but at great cost. \u00a0A day we would all like to forget. \u00a0A day we never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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