Koren has always wondered how her hometown got a piece of steel from the World Trade Center towers for its monument in the center of her hometown and today, on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she published a piece in The Atlantic about how fragments of the Twin Towers have been turned into memorials all over the United States.
“The memorialization of the tragic events of September 11,” she wrote,” has become part of a healing process for victims, their families, and the general public.”
Two Verona residents, William Erwin and Stephen Roach, died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, as did Howard Kestenbaum, a resident of Montclair who worshipped at Congregation Beth Ahm. This morning, Mayor Kevin Ryan, who witnessed the attacks from an office in lower Manhattan, remembered those who died. Flags were set out in front of Verona’s town hall for each of the 2,977 victims.
You can read Koren’s full piece in The Atlantic here, and follow Koren on Twitter.
