The horrific event that happened eleven days after PN’s September 1 launch was unthinkable.

Just as my parents and grandparents remembered where they were when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and just as many of us remember where we were when we heard President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in the 1960s, most of us over 30 recall where we were on Sept. 11, 2001.

I was attending a breakfast Rotary Club of Naperville board meeting at Egg Harbor in downtown Naperville. Jeanne Johnson was called out of the meeting by her daughter. Jeanne returned with the tragic news that the first of the WTC Twin Towers had been hit by an aircraft. The meeting abruptly ended. I raced home and turned on the TV just in time to watch the second plane hit.

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