What Do We Actually Remember About 9/11?

Remembering the catastrophe isn’t as easy as the slogans indicate. Firefighters walk towards the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. On September 12, 2001, I remember meeting my friend Steve Hayes for a drink in Union Square. I was a cub reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and Hayes was a reporter for The Weekly Standard. The morning before, I had walked between the World Trade Center towers on my way to work. I’d been in the newsroom for about 15 minutes when the first plane crashed into the North Tower. Tim Townsend, a writer and podcast producer in Washington, D.C., is a former Wall Street Journal and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter whose writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. He is also the author of the 2014 book Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis. More We Think You’d Like