Where They Were

We’ll always remember where we were when those planes hit the towers. But we must never forget where a particular group of people was.

Atlanta, GA

September 11, 2026

As with Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, or the Challenger explosion, anyone old enough to remember knows where he was twenty-five years ago.

I was in a hotel room in São Paulo. I’d arrived that morning off a red-eye flight, and planned to return that evening. Like it was yesterday, I still recall wh…