Sunday, September 11, 2005

Rare indeed: my alma mater makes the front page of the NYT sports section. 9:59:14 AM   permalink   comment []

I wrote my newspaper column today about my friends Calvin Gooding and Doug Gardner, who died in the World Trade Center, and about remembrance for the dead. "We die twice, first when our bodies fail or are destroyed, and then again as the memory of who we really were dwindles and warps with time, and finally fades away completely when all who knew us also are gone. That's how we become ghosts. For the dead of 9/11 this second death threatens to come as prematurely as came the first. The individuals are lost in the great crowd that died with them, overshadowed by the images of the disaster, obscured by the rush of events that flowed from that day." Read the whole thing. 9:13:08 AM   permalink   comment []