The tenth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks is on my mind, like most everyone. Hard not to think about it when it seems to be on every channel.\u00a0 It\u2019s still hard to get the head around, and it is still an active trauma for the millions who had direct experience of the attacks, or who have dealt with the decade of consequences that have followed. And it\u2019s still traumatic to those who, like me, have been fortunate enough to have lived out of the way of the worst, who have been little more than witnesses.<\/p>\n
Since we can hardly help but remember, the question that comes to my mind is \u201cWhat should we do with this remembrance?\u201d Besides mourning the fallen, of course, and celebrating the remarkable few who run toward danger when all others are running away. The day is ten years gone now and will only recede deeper into time. So what do we bring with us into the future\u2014what have we learned?<\/p>\n
I tried this question out around the station and saw that responses divided into two categories: lessons learned on the day itself and in the immediate aftermath, and the lessons that have evolved over the long haul. One said the day itself reminded her of earlier shocks, the assassinations of Kennedy and King. In one jaw-dropping moment, that which was taken for granted was all overturned. Another said the day taught him that there were still many people who would <\/em>run toward danger, a thing he thought might have been lost in America. And he learned that he and his family were fragile, youthful notions of invulnerability to the contrary.<\/p>\n About the long haul, I heard about learning the importance of paying attention to and appreciating the differences between people of different cultures. And that long-term stress and anxiety cannot be left unaddressed. And other bits of lore and wisdom pertinent to the day and the times.<\/p>\n Myself, I wonder about the nature of change. Did 9-11 really change everything, the way enough\u00a0 rock and soil will divert a river to a permanent new channel? Or was it more like a whack to a spinning top, which skitters and wobbles a while and then rights itself.<\/p>\n What is your takeaway lesson from 9-11? From the decade since? Let us know in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The tenth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks is on my mind, like most everyone. Hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}