Seen Through a Glass: Remembrance
Seven years ago, Stan Hieronymus wrote a piece for All About Beer called “Finding Sanctuary on Nine-Eleven.” On today, what I call Remembrance Day for my own reasons, the piece reads well. Of course it does: it’s Stan.
Right now, this minute as I write this, seven years ago, I was editing photos from some trips. Nora sat upstairs, home sick from school. Then I got an e-mail from my dad. “Turn on your television. We appear to be under attack.” I wrote about the day, and the week that followed, five years later here, and I re-read it occasionally to remind me.
Today is a beautiful, cloudless September day, just like it was seven years ago…which brings that same sense of the surreal. I’m doing an Irish whiskey dinner tonight, which I kind of feel weird about. (Nora asked, “Dad, you’d do a dinner on December 7, wouldn’t you? What’s the difference?” She’s right…and wrong: it’s the rawness of it.)
Raise a glass to the victims, and another to the heroes: the firefighters and police, the brave passengers on Flight 93, the servicefolk who responded that day, the construction workers who tirelessly dug through smoking wreckage looking for survivors. And remember. And look ahead.