I was a first responder on September 11; here’s what I remember
Although it’s been nearly two decades, my memories of September 11 in New York are as vivid as if it all happened yesterday. I was sitting in a classroom in Manhattan. On that morning, I was a combat veteran and National Guardsman turned student. My priorities that day were to go to class and do my schoolwork. But my life changed when a female voice behind me interrupted the professor with a few simple but terrifying words: A plane had hit the World Trade Center.
We can’t be together on Memorial Day, but we can still honor the fallen
Although we won’t be observing Memorial Day as we normally would, we can still honor our heroes’ sacrifices with service in our communities.