Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I’m busy catching up on some work that I put off while I was writing my 9/11 remembrance posts. If you missed those over the weekend, they’re here: 10 Years Later: “Essential Acts of Witness” 10 Years Later: The Weak Horse I’ll be back tomorrow.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
I’ve written several times — including yesterday — about how it was to stand outside my office on 9/11, watching the World Trade Center towers burn across the street. I spent last night watching documentaries about that day and realized that every time I saw an image of the buildings collapsing, I tasted the smoke [...]
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
I’ve been thinking about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 for a year, especially about a 2003 story by Tom Junod, published in Esquire, called “The Falling Man.“ The story is about a photo of an unidentified man plunging from the World Trade Center — one of the many people who jumped from the buildings to [...]
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The tenth anniversary of September 11 is coming up, and that day is very much on my mind. There’s a well-written story on Poynter.org called “How The Wall Street Journal’s improvised 9/11 battle plan helped it to a Pulitzer.” It quotes MrB extensively about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of 9/11. He was the Wall [...]
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
“The devil is in the details” normally means that the biggest challenges of a project are contained in its smaller elements. But I always think of the expression in relation to the personal stories told by or of the victims of catastrophic events. Such is particularly the case for me today, the anniversary of the [...]
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Friday, September 11, 2009
I’m giving you reruns today: Laughing While Crying 9/14/01 September 11 Is Here Again UPDATED TO ADD: I always think of the other Wendy Brandes on this date. The other Wendy Brandes and I were at Columbia University at the same time. She was studying law and I was getting my undergraduate degree. I found [...]
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Last year, when I wrote about my 9/11 experience here, I mentioned how — adding minor insult to major injury — Bumpe the cow disappeared from my abandoned office at Lehman Brothers. Bumpe Let’s take a moment to reflect on the type of person who loots a stuffed cow (as well as laptops, loose change [...]
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Friday, September 12, 2008
I didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday, so here is the sleeveless turtleneck I was wearing on 9/11/01, when I worked in the World Financial Center, across the street from the World Trade Center. I didn’t keep it as a memento. I just wear clothes for a really long time. I did get [...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Recently, I was talking about how less familiar images of a tragedy can have an unexpectedly big impact. On September 14, 2001, Wall Street Journal employee Jared Sandberg went back to his offices at the World Financial Center, across the street from the ruins of the World Trade Center. He took these pictures of the [...]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
It’s hard to believe it’s been six years. In 2001, both my husband and I worked across from the World Trade Center at the World Financial Center (we were at different companies though). My company had office space in both the WTC and the WFC, and one employee was killed in the Trade Center that [...]
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