Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, this special produced by WNYC explores New Yorkers’ most visceral and immediate emotional reactions to the attack on the World Trade Center and how they are, or aren’t, still with us today.
Irish actor David Peare reads the play Riders To The Sea by John Millington Synge. The play resonated with Don Goodrich of Bennington, who lost his son Peter Goodrich in the attacks of 9/11/01 so much he commissioned a recording of it.
These days, going through security at the airport is probably the most obvious reminder, for most of us, of what happened on 9/11. VPR’s Samantha Fields examines the changes those events brought to our daily lives.
Irish actor David Peare reads the play Riders To The Sea by John Millington Synge. The play resonated with Don Goodrich of Bennington, who lost his son Peter Goodrich in the attacks of 9/11/01 so much he commissioned a recording of it.
Today’s high school
sophomores were in kindergarten when the 2001 terrorist attacks took place. And for many
younger students, "9/11" is no more personal than Pearl Harbor or the Korean War. Today, the way September 11th
is taught and remembered continues to evolve.
In the last week the Vermont National Guard has helped in the response
to the flooding from Tropical Storm Irene — a role long associated with the guard. But the events of September 11, 2001 transformed the guard into an organization trained to
respond to very different circumstances, much further away from home.
People who live along our border with Canada are among those whose daily
lives have been affected by increased security in the post 9/11 era. The first story in our series Life After 9/11 looks at how visiting our ‘neighbors to the north’ has changed in the past
decade.