For one moment, America stopped arguing.
We watched the towers burn. We watched firefighters run toward the danger. We watched strangers help strangers. And for a little while, we remembered that we were all on the same side.
In Part 2 of this 9/11 remembrance, Charlie LeDuff looks back at the people who dug through the wreckage, carried the fallen, raised the flag — and showed the country what courage actually looked like.
Twenty-five years later, the question isn’t just whether we remember what happened.
It’s whether we remember who we were afterward.
Never forget the dead.
Never forget the heroes.
And maybe don’t forget each other.
