Hello, my lovelies. As usual, I’ve been struggling with what to post on 9/11, but since this is the 25th anniversary, I knew it had to be something particularly meaningful. After watching many videos (all of them painful), I finally came across a 2026 documentary about the Windows on the World workers. The story is driven by the timeline that morning, but it also includes some lovely bios of a number of WOTW staff, and I’ve never seen those people acknowledged before.
The full-length documentary, Trapped Above 9/11 Impact Zone: The Inside Story of 73 Restaurant Workers, is below. I hope you will take the time to watch it. It’s hard to watch, but also pretty incredible. How can it be 25 years and also too soon?
I wish everyone as peaceful a 9/11 as you can manage.
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September 11, 2026 at 8:35 am
I saw the promo for that but I just can’t watch. I internalize it all.
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September 12, 2026 at 9:05 am
I do, too, but I wanted to get through it anyway. For years, I couldn’t watch anything to do with 9/11, but I slowly started letting things in, and I have found some wonderful stories. I now make an intentional effort to compartmentalize 9/11 now, and just spend a couple of days focused directly on it. I try to get all my crying out of the way, and then get back to the present.
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September 11, 2026 at 2:22 pm
I will bookmark to watch later. As part of never forgetting, I try to find a documentary or a text that has a different focus on 9/11 each year. You have just given me another opportunity for this year.
My thoughts are with everyone who lost someone on or later as a consequence of that terrible day.
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September 12, 2026 at 9:06 am
I do that, too, Laura. I confess I didn’t get all the way through this one yet. It got to be too much about 2/3 of the way through, but I will finish it today.
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