09/09/2026
Battery Park is way more than a two-hour trip downtown to run through the 9/11 Museum and look up at One World Trade.
It’s the memory of something so enormous you can’t imagine it happened in the United States. But it did. And so much has been repaired down here that visitors can only begin to understand what New Yorkers went through in the terrible years after.
This post is just about remembering. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. Thousands more have died since from cancers and illnesses they got as first responders — more than died that day. FDNY alone has lost 343 to illness, the same number it lost on the morning itself.
Take your time and walk around. Imagine what it was like when this was a war zone.
Twenty-five years is not long enough to forget. #911
