dag hammarsjkold wrote:I work on Long Island. I remember going into the city ...

But I am relieved for those who have found the Memorial to be a source of connection and healing.

Thank you!

I don't have much to add to anniversary discussions that are flowing through our media.

I was a young-ish man in 2001, with a baby. I am no longer young and that baby is now 20 years old, a fine young man, with no memories of the worst day ever. Time is passing, and like almost any wound, time is healing. When that 2001 baby is my age, with no memories of the day, I expect Sept 11 will have just become another historical checkmark for him, like December 7 or June 6.

That's not a bad thing; life is lived moving forward. I doubt, however, Sept 11 could ever become just another a historical checkmark for me.

geojanes wrote:I don't have much to add to anniversary discussions that are flowing through our media.

I was a young-ish man in 2001, with a baby. I am no longer young and that baby is now 20 years old, a fine young man, with no memories of the worst day ever. Time is passing, and like almost any wound, time is healing. When that 2001 baby is my age, with no memories of the day, I expect Sept 11 will have just become another historical checkmark for him, like December 7 or June 6.

That's not a bad thing; life is lived moving forward. I doubt, however, Sept 11 could ever become just another a historical checkmark for me.

Still seems right . . .

https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/biden-claims-he-was-at-ground-zero-day-after-9-11-but-his-own-book-puts-him-in-dc/

I guess some people remember without factual back up.

bbauska wrote:https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/biden-claims-he-was-at-ground-zero-day-after-9-11-but-his-own-book-puts-him-in-dc/

I guess some people remember without factual back up.

Yeah, it's interesting how memories are not necessarily fact. There is a great podcast about this:

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisio ... n-williams

Taught me something.

Well, every time we retrieve a memory it's possible it can be affected by current information. Memory is not for nostalgia's sake--it's to help us deal with the world currently. And so the brain when it retrieves the memory can "update" the memory so it reflects more data the brain has collected. A police officer talks to a witness and informs them of other information from other witnesses or other details. That may cause the memory the witness has to change...

That's why it's very important to get eyewitness testimony down immediately in a narrative form--without suggestion--before it can be tainted.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2 ... s-the-past

That is exactly what President Biden did before he lost his cognitive ability. Thus proving his current recollection false.