Twenty years ago, 232 people boarded their morning flights. Thirty-three airline crew members prepared their aircraft for takeoff. Two thousand six hundred and six people had just begun their workday. Three hundred and forty-three firefighters, 60 police officers, and eight paramedics thought it was going to be a normal day of work. None of them saw past 10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. Nineteen radical Islamic terrorists from al Qaeda hijacked and crashed four airplanes. At a time when Nike is preaching about sacrificing everything, the victims of the worst terrorist attack in American history actually did.
At the time, we promised we would “never forget.” Almost a generation has passed since that terrible day, and it is legitimately questionable whether that promise was kept.
