New York: I Still Love You Best

No one who was in New York on 9/11 will ever forget that day. I still well up when I think of the firefighters a few doors down from me and how they lost half of their crew.

Even now, images from that day come back unannounced. All I can do is allow it all to wash over me.

I wrote about some of what I saw and felt 11 years ago in a blog post for Guernica during the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, two years ago.

The piece was a bit controversial. I was vilified on Twitter. But there you go: the price of doing business.

 

About Meakin Armstrong

Fiction writer, fiction editor, journalist, and copywriter.
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