22 years after that bright September morning, the impact lingers on
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, a point in time that forever altered the world in a series of events, terrorist attacks, that would linger on politically, spiritually, culturally and leave an indelible mark on those alive at the time who experienced that day.
A human being born that day celebrates their 22nd birthday today, having grown up in a world where security measures — some draconian dominate and where a certain sense of collective innocence has been lost.
Perhaps the ultimate irony is that lessons of peaceful diplomacy that could have possibly been gained from that day were instead lost to the sense of paranoia and nationalistic ideology and messaging as governments reacted, and in the case of the United States, commencement of a war that became the longest in American history.
The number of American servicemembers who died fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had passed 7,000 at the end of 2021.
