For 9/11
9/11 Memorial
Hard to believe that it has been 13 years since the world turned upside down and fundamentalist lunatics plunged the globe into what is beginning to seem like an endless war. I was in New Haven that awful morning, and I'm told that if you climbed to the top of Yale's tallest buildings, you could see the smoke rising from the place where the World Trade Center had stood. I feared that maybe the University might be in the crosshairs eventually—we did exemplify the knowledge and intellectual freedom the jihadis, calliphatists, and Talibanistas so loathed—but, so far, we've managed to keep the insanity at bay. But it takes hard work and incredible sacrifice. On a bicycle jaunt, I discovered this impromptu 9/11 memorial: never forget.