9/11

It can't have been 22 years....

Happy Monday folks. Please join us in remembering that day — and ensuring the pledge to “never forget.” Because it certainly could happen again.

Our latest podcast just dropped, recounting what it was like for Chris and I — both Manhattan cops — to be working Ground Zero on that day and in the months and years afterward. Both our careers were shaped by 9/11 and the reaction to it. As were the careers and lives of so many of you, of course.

Joining us on the cast is our good friend and colleague Eric Seidel, who was outside near the Trade Center that day when he suddenly heard a loud boom! above him. Eric’s own unique experience takes him all the way to Israel and back to the DA’s office again, pursuing counter terrorism work from myriad angles.

Lastly, click here for the piece that I wrote at the time: Notes From Ground Zero (it’s over at the website). It was picked up globally by Associated Press Features back then and almost resulted in a change of career for me. Cooler heads prevailed…. I confess that I haven’t read it in roughly two decades. I likely never will again.

But someone posts it every year (someone unknown to me once put it up on Facebook from Lebanon!), so we’re posting it at the site this year.

We’ll see you later in the week.

And if you lost someone that day: sincere condolences, from all of us.