There are many articles that continue to provide us with perspective and insight as we respectfully and with continued sadness, mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

For many years there was an effort to obtain the release of the redacted “28 pages from the House Intelligence Committee’s 2002 report to Congress. As I posted July 15, 2016 – “Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA), approved publication of a newly declassified section of the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.   Following a declassification review, the Obama Administration decided to declassify the Joint Inquiry’s only wholly classified section, commonly referred to as the “28 pages.” The Administration then sent this document, with redactions to protect sources and methods, to congressional leadership. HPSCI has posted the document on its website.”

In a continuing effort to track the release of new information – this new Esquire article that focuses on the “Falling Man” is with due warning remarkably difficult to read (but please do)  – it evokes a deep memory of what we saw that day and cannot ever forget, and what we did not see, although we knew very well the visceral fear and pain of just imagining what had been withheld. Regardless of all the events of the intervening years, 9/11 changed America in ways that for a growing population of young people not yet born or otherwise too young to recall pre 9/11 America – our transportation systems, work places, schools, surveillance of public activities, and the many facets of a kaleidoscope we can no longer twirl in our own hands, is now our collective America.

• And via Anil Dash – A Blog About Making Culture – his postings over the course of the past 15 years bear witness to moving forward and yet, the sadness, remains.
• And via the Atlantic – Explaining 9/11 to the Youngest Learners and 15 Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer?
• And via the New York Times – How a letter that fell from a hijacked September 11 aircraft reached its rightful destination.
• And via GOOD – The Kids Of 9/11 Are All Grown Up—And The Way They Process Trauma Is Fascinating
• And via Library of Congress – The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images. In September 2003, the Library of Congress accepted the Archive into its collections, an event that both ensured the Archive’s long-term preservation and marked the library’s first major digital acquisition.