A day or mourning is never easy to express in words. Pictures often tell a better story.
Today, the pictures are worth more than a thousand words. They are worth a thousand stories.
In New York City, at the WTC memorial, family members read names of loved ones and told stories. Bells rang. They marked the moment the first plane struck the North Tower. They rang out again at the time the second plane hit the South Tower. And then again when each building fell.
“No other public tragedy has cut our city so deeply, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “No other place is as filled with our compassion, our love and our solidarity.”
The pictures from that day tell an even more tragic story. And the ones that captured men, their FDNY gear covered in gray dust with dark streaks down their cheeks, tell a few more.
It was a day when brave men and women fought to save desperate men and women. It is a day that America changed. September 11th isn’t just a day, anymore. It is a defining moment in time. Every year.
Today, people held signs that read: Never Forget
How could we?
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