September 11, 2001
“Faced with the enormity of suffering and evil that we have seen in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is impossible to find words that are adequate to comprehend it. When we search for words to deal with this tragedy, we quickly find ourselves at a loss. In the face of such disaster, silence and prayer are probably the only adequate response.” So wrote the editors of America in the days following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
In the intervening years, years marked by recovery and war, by grief as well as grace, men and women have found words, inadequate though they may be, to speak about that tragic day and its aftermath. On this anniversary, we offer here in a spirit and prayer and remembrance a selection of articles and multimedia features by our editors and contributors.
Articles
What One World Trade Center tells us about ourselves.
What is possible when we acknowledge the strength of our diversity?
World Trade Center Journal: Part One
From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had…
The Editors: We profess that “evil and death do not have the final say.”
Faced with the enormity of suffering and evil that we have seen in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is impossible to find words that are adequate to comprehend it. When we search for words to deal with this tragedy, we quickly find ourselves at a loss. In the…
The view from America House on Sept. 11, 2001
Someone had come running out of the business office yelling that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
