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Sep 11, 2026
At 35, I thought I understood America. Then came Sept. 11.
Twenty-five years ago, I thought I understood America. I was 35 years old, Washington bureau chief for The Detroit News, living in an apartment on 16th Street and working out of the National Press Building in downtown D.C.
Sep 11, 2025
When the world stopped turning, we kept writing
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I had laid out a suit for work. By the time I realized what was happening, I left that suit behind. Jeans, a […]
