In Memoriam: The Bright Sky, Obscured....
An impossibility becomes possible; it has been a decade since 9/11/01, the day that shook our world. Ten years have passed since the planes pierced the Twin Towers in Manhattan. Ten years since the Pentagon was hit. Ten years since ordinary people wrestled with mad men flying a plane over a field in Pennsylvania. Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images from 092021 WSJ story No one who was alive that day will forget it. I will never forget it. On that September day, ten years ago, the sky over Chicago was as bright a blue as the sky seen in New York. Bright, cloudless, breathtakingly blue. A sky and a day full of the beauty of autumn. But halfway across the continent, planes like bombs flew into the towers. Red and black flames licked the white buildings. The towers co...