Today, I am not going to treat or subject (depending on your point of view) you to my "Sunday funnies" feature.
Rather, I am taking this opportunity to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, and the downing of a flight in Pennsylvania.
This anniversary is significant because at the age of 21, most people in most parts of the world have all or most of the rights and responsibilities of an adult. So, some might argue, a whole generation has been born since that terrible day.
I also can't help, as a long-ago bike messenger, to think of all of those messengers and other workers--including firefighters and other first responders and office workers in the Towers--who never made it home that day. I am also thinking of those who were spared because they had the day off, were late or were on their way when their train or bus came to a halt.
And there are the bikes that were never retrieved.
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| Bike rack at the 9/11 Memorial |
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