Diane Sherlock

  • Tragedy upon tragedy

    Every year since 9/11, I’ve paid tribute to these two men who died in the Twin Towers. I nearly skipped this year because I’ve been focused on the numbers of Americans who’ve died in the pandemic. Covid deaths dwarf those lost in the attacks, over 200,000 to date, but that doesn’t negate what happened 19…

  • Tragedy, trauma, turning

    I’ve been thinking about 9/11 and Covid-19 and the difference between the deaths of each of my parents. My father was gone within 24 hours from a heart attack and my mother had a long slow farewell until she died of congestive heart failure and stroke at 90 (my grandmother’s was even longer one at…

  • Remembering 9/11

    Lawrence Wright notes that we are forgetting pre-9/11 America and the way we were. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower.  It was made into a well-reviewed Hulu series with Jeff Daniels, Bill Camp, and Tahar Rahim, which I have not yet seen. More about the day itself here. Few of the original 2,000 bloggers are…

  • Remembering 9/11: part of Project 2,996

    Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, a must-read, just came out with this in The New Yorker  My annual repost and part of Project 2996: Robert Halligan Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 15, 2001. Robert Halligan, Age: 59 Residence: Basking Ridge, NJ Two WTC, 99th Floor Aon Corporation, Vice President SHOPPING…

  • Never Forget: part of Project 2,996

    This is my annual repost and part of Project 2996 Robert Halligan Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 15, 2001. Robert Halligan, Age: 59 Residence: Basking Ridge, NJ Two WTC, 99th Floor Aon Corporation, Vice President SHOPPING ACROSS THE POND To a proud Englishman, America is a country of vexing insufficiencies. Its supermarkets…

  • Remembering 9/11 Project 2,996

    Part of Project 2996 Robert Halligan Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 15, 2001. SHOPPING ACROSS THE POND To a proud Englishman, America is a country of vexing insufficiencies. Its supermarkets know not of H.P. (House of Parliament) sauce and tins of steak and kidney pie. Marmite, sadly, remains a mystery. Several times…

  • Robert Halligan: September 11, 2001

    At the beginning of Project 2,996, I paid tribute to Robert Halligan and through him, found his son, Rob, a musician, who sent me a note of thanks and now I keep up with him on Facebook. Rob has written a song in tribute. If you buy it, all monies go to the 2 charities Rob works…

  • Ehtesham U. Raja: September 11, 2001

    This is part of Project 2996  Ehtesham U. Raja of Clifton, NJ was 28 years old when he died in the World Trade Center. He’d gone there for a conference and was in Windows on the World. He was a 1996 graduate of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia. He had his…

  • remembering 9/11: Project 2,996

    I’ve paid tribute to two men, both of whom died in the World Trade Center. At the beginning of Project 2,996, I paid tribute to Robert Halligan and through him, found his son, Rob, a musician, who sent me a note of thanks and now I keep up with him on Facebook. Rob is putting…

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