Remembering 9/11

It’s weird to be in New York as we remember seven years ago.

I’ve often asked people where they were when they heard the news. I was in a Drama 15 class and the girl next to me was wearing headphones and listening to live radio updates during class.  I thought she was just being disrespectful to the professor and class.  I was obviuosly wrong.

I can remember leaving the class and heading straight for Lenior Dining Hall.  There, I found a handful of my friends.  We, along with about 50 strangers, sat in a lower level dining room and watched the devastation in real-time.

The silence in the room was deafening and absolute.

It’s seven years later and construction has begun on the new Freedom Tower.  It’s a huge project, and one that is behind plan and over budget.  But Mayor Bloomberg stood up this week in the WSJ and said the project must be completed by the 10th anniversary.  Bloomberg is right - this is no time for government infighting and arguments between the private and public sector.

Tonight we will be attending the UNC-Rutgers football game in Piscataway, NJ.  There’s a pre-game moment of silence and flyover planned, as well as a halftime ceremony.  It should be a fitting way to recognize the day our country changed.

(Photo is from Boston.com - for more photos go here)