This week’s issue is our Dallas Voice Big September Issue for 2020. This is the issue we devote each year to the things that put the “Big” in Big D, the issue in which we celebrate big achievements and acknowledge our big setbacks.
And it is also one of our biggest issues of the year. But this is also Sept. 11, 2020, the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.
And we cannot let this day pass without remembering that horrible day. Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, 2001, and more than 6,000 were injured.
Most of those who died that day were “civilians,” but about 415 were first responders, mostly firefighters and police officers who rushed to the site of the World Trade Center towers to try to