When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed the date on my phone. September 11, 2018. Seventeen years ago, September 11 started off as a normal day for the American people. We were in the first year of the George W. Bush administration and the second year of the new millennium. Summer was ending, fall was beginning. Just an average day.
But just before 9:00am, it became clear that it was far from just an average day. An airplane hijacked by hate-filled, Al-Qaeda militants slammed into the North Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center. For the American people, the rest of the morning was a blur….