Tomorrow marks the 20th Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We do not normally publish on Saturdays, so here is a list of some coverage of the event today.
The region is remembering, says a piece in the Daily Gazette, in various ways. They have a list here, covering Albany, Schenectady, Fulton/Montgomery and Saratoga counties, including the Saratoga Springs remembrance ceremony: 8:30 a.m. at High Rock Park at the Tempered by Memory Sculpture. People are asked to arrive by 8:15 a.m. Dottie Pepper of CBS Sports will be the master of cermeonies and Frank G. Hoare, who served in the army reserves will be the keynote speaker.
The Times Union has a remembrance from the daughter of a woman killed when the twin towers fell. “I stopped going to that annual service a few years ago, when I turned 18. My father still goes every year wearing a shirt with my mother’s bright, sweet face printed across it. He wants to hear her name read aloud,” writes Shayla Colon, whose mother, Sol E. Colon, died on 9/11.
The Washington Post has a series of columns/analyses on the topic here. Today’s installment is the distraction in the Middle East that led to the rise of China.
The New York Time has a piece today about how students, not yet born on 9/11, are taught about it.
Thomas Kean, the chair of the 9/11 commission, reflects in the Guardian on how 9/11 might have been stopped. "The final report makes clear that if both Clinton and Bush had acted differently, there is a chance the attacks might have been thwarted. “I think both presidents felt that given the circumstances that they were facing at the time, they made reasonable decisions but with hindsight, and the addition of a lot of facts, both of them thought, ‘If we’d known those things, we’d have done things differently’," the story says.