![]() A new law in Texas empowers private citizens to spy on women who want to have an abortion. 6, rioters, in an act of domestic terrorism, stormed the Capitol. 11 attacks, we’ve been engaged in a misbegotten War on Terror. Yet, like many, I’ve come to grieve for what 9/11 did to our country. No grief is like that of those who lost loved ones in a nano-sec on 9/11. Like many, I think he joked to try to cope with the terror. I remember that he wisecracked about Osama Bin Laden. Yet, because tragedy and comedy are so intertwined, humor didn’t die.Ī few weeks after, 9/11, a paralegal helped me to settle Anne’s affairs. There was much talk about how irony had ended after 9/11. “It could have been a terrorist,” he said. Just as we’d entered the building, we were told to “evacuate the premises.”Īfter we waited about an hour outside, the security guard said we could go back into the building. 11 attacks, I went with a friend to the courthouse to record Anne’s will. But I soon learned nearly everyone would feel connected to the terror, anxiety and fear of 9/11. Seeing the images on the screen was like watching something from another world with no connection to me. Still in shock from losing Anne, I couldn’t register the horror. White house photos daylife tv#“There’s been an explosion in New York!” she said, “I think a plane’s crashed into the Pentagon!”Īs instructed, I turned on my TV (you didn’t get the news on your phone then).īut, I could barely take it in as I watched the Twin Towers burn and the terror at the Pentagon. on 9/11, Barbara, a friend, called and told me to turn on my TV ASAP. As the Blade reported, LGBTQ people whose spouses died on 9/11 struggled to obtain survivors’ benefits.Īround 10:30 a.m. On 9/11, marriage equality was years away. Investigators speculated that Bingham and the other passengers tried to overtake the hijackers to prevent an attack on the White House or a building such as the Capitol.Īlong with those who died during the attacks, there were the many survivors and first responders who were burned and injured during the 9/11 attacks. It’s widely believed that some passengers, including Mark Bingham, a gay public relations executive, tried to take control of the plane from the hijackers. United Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks.Įveryone (64 people) on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon were killed along with 125 people in the building. People from teens to grandparents felt as if the center had disintegrated.Īirplanes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. Then, on a Tuesday morning, 20 years ago, everyone’s life changed. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ran through my head. “Things fall apart the centre cannot hold,” the line from W.B. I couldn’t follow the plot when I glanced at a rerun of “The Odd Couple” on TV, let alone news headlines. ![]()
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