September 11: "Day of Horror and Heroism"

Peggy Noonan's column about September 11  is an eloquent one. She writes in "We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We" 

"They tell us to get over it, they say to move on, and they mean it well: We can't bring an air of tragedy into the future. But I will never get over it. To get over it is to get over the guy who stayed behind on a high floor with his friend who was in a wheelchair. To get over it is to get over the woman by herself with the sign in the darkness: 'America You Are Not Alone.' To get over it is to get over the guys who ran into the fire and not away from the fire."

By the way, the man in the wheelchair was Edward F. Beyea, about whom I wrote for the 2,996 Project. His friend was Abraham Zelmanowitz. And it is fitting that their names are adjacent to one another on Panel N-5 of the North Pool at the 9/11 Memorial.