September 11th has impacted me significantly personally, politically, and professionally. Certainly its impacted me more than I expected it to when I sat that morning in front of a television and watched the world suddenly shift about me — Personally, 9/11 was a gut-wrenching emotional experience for me. I was driving in Connecticut on my [...]
Winds of Change this morning is pointing to the Eulogy of Captain Francis J. Callahan of the FDNY, over at Philip Toshio Sudo: Eulogy of Capt. Francis J. Callahan, delivered by Capt. James Gormley, Dec. 10, 2001: Captains and lieutenants of the New York City Fire Department share a special relationship with other officers of [...]
Glenn Reynolds, over at Instapundit pointed to this Bleat, by Minneapolis’s James Lileks from September 11, 2003. I’ve never read a more fitting blog post about 9/11: Two years ago today I was convinced that every presumption I had about the future was wrong. This war, I feared, would be horrible, total, and long. Two [...]