It was a beautiful day: That’s the first thing that anyone who experienced Sept. 11, 2001, will tell you about it. It was a beautiful day, what the pilots call “severe clear.” It had to be, because the terrorists who used those planes to bomb the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and who were foiled in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, didn’t really know how to fly that well. So the weather had to be good, “a seamless sky,” as I later titled one of my novels, whose centerpiece takes place on that day.
How best to remember it, 25 years later? At first, I thought I would write about the day itself and all that I had witnessed. But lover of history though I am, I realized that I had done that before and had no desire to do so again. Instead, I would rather focus here on 9/11/2026 and the future.
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