September 11, 2001, changed a lot of people’s lives.  It didn’t change New York City very much, since things were already headed back to normal the day after, but it changed the lives of a lot of individuals.  Specifically, it changed the lives of the families and friends of the 2,996 people who died that day.  One of the more noble traditions of the blogosphere is Project 2996, where bloggers pick and memorialize a 9/11 attack victim to ensure that their memory lives on.

I’ve participated before, on previous blogs, but I didn’t do it this year.  I had a friend of mine, Doug Farnum, who died in the towers when the first plane hit right about where he worked for Marsh & McLennan.  I hope whoever gets his name pulled out of the project hat does a good job.

A lot of times coverage of 9/11 gets distilled into a game of heroes and villains, but it’s more than that.  It’s  peoples’ lives.  It’s families without fathers, children without mothers, parents without children, and wives without husbands.  As Dave Barry said this morning, “Today’s a good day to hug the people you love, and think about the people who can’t do that because of what happened eight years ago.”

Thanks for coming by today.  I’ll get off my soap box now.  Let’s find something funny in the news, shall we?

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Tags: September 11, 9/11/09, 9/11 remembered, terrorist attacks, New York City, Project 2996

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