Sept. 11 and the persistence of memory
Memories haunt those who lived through the attacks. A Times journalist recounts his.
From The Times
September 11, 2026

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, moments submerge and re-emerge for Dan Barry, a Times journalist: Exhausted firefighters carrying another body. Medics with no one to save. A table where a grieving father said his dead son “sits right there, where you’re sitting,” for Sunday dinners. “That’s his spot.”

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