Medium Writers Appreciation #14 — Memories of September 11, 2001 Edition Part 1

Highlighting Stories From My Fellow Writers

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We need to remember, so we never forget or let it happen again. This edition is filled with stories of memories of September 11, 2001. I want to thank all of these writers for putting their tragedy and agony into words. You can find my own personal story here.

I want to also give credit to Keith R. Higgons for his publication Memories of 9/11 where you can find an additional 25 stories on 9/11 (including my own as mentioned above). I won’t undo his hard work by listing those stories here, so please go to his publication to read them.

Memories of 9/11

MEMORIES OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001–20th ANNIVERSARY

By Adrienne Parkhurst

I Suffered From Dissociative Amnesia

By Crystal A. Walker

Where Were You on 9/11?

By Sean Kernan

An Easy and Moving Way to Honor One 9/11 Victim Each Year

By Tim Wise

Stop With the 9/11 “Unity” Nostalgia

By John DeVore

I Don’t Care Where You Were On 9/11

By Angus Morrison

The Day The Opera Curtain Came Down

By susanmfritz

I’d Trade the World

By Shmuli Evers

20 years since September 11

By Kerry Summers

Public Tragedy, Personal Grief

By Brooke Ramey Nelson

No, I Don’t Miss 9/12/01

By Brad Luna

A Personal Reflection on the 20th Anniversary of September 11th

By Jayson Kristopher

I Just Wanted to See My Mom Again

By Joyce Ng

9/11 Survivor — A Story of Miraculous Escape

By Rob Tyrie

September 11, 2021

By Benjamin Sledge

The Curse of September 11, 2001

By Natalie Thomas

A Look Back at My Lost Journals from 9/11

By Michael J. Dougherty

Go On, or, A Halligan Bar Of One’s Own

By Nina Mehta

Twenty.

By Areeb K Ahmad

How 9/11 Shaped Who I Am Today

By Mary Welch Official

Reflections on Sept. 11

By Howard Altarescu

Windows on the World — A 9/11 Memory

By George Kalantzis

Twenty Years Of Reflection — Was It Worth It?

By Kevin McKinney

Bush’s Words Fall Flat on 20th Anniversary of September 11

By Benjamin Renton

Learning from Tragedy: Lessons from 9/11 in the Era of COVID-19

By Zahra Kassam

in between skies

By Lena Shareef

Nothing and Everything: 20 Years After 9/11

By Susan Kraus

The World Trade Center: This Is What It Was…

By Bethany Crystal

Twenty years

By B.R. Shenoy

My Memories of 9/11

By Jennifer M Ludden

My 9/11 Experience — 20 years later

By Cris Italia

Triggers

By David B. Grinberg

9/11 Twentieth Anniversary: Pieces of Promise Born from Perennial Pain

By Kristi Keller

9/11 Survivors Are Still Being Pulled From the Wreckage

By aleXander hirka

Selective Remembering and Forgetting

By Anshul Shah

Gratitude — A Reflection

By Aaron Clarke

Reflections, Twenty Years Out

By Colin Horgan

When Was The Last Good Year?

By Dan Brook

Learning From History?

By Carter Covington

The Dust Lady

By Jim LaBate

It was 20 Years Ago Today — What Do You Remember?

By Diana Nyad

Remembering 9/11

I spent the entire weekend mostly reading 9/11 stories. By doing so, it has made me grateful that I only had to change my wedding date and not live through some of the tragedies written here. If you have a published September 11, 2001 story that you would like for me to add to this list, please leave a link to it in comments. I also hope that my readers will take some time to read these stories — maybe one or two a day — and reflect.

Thank you writers. Many blessings to all.

Check out the previous Appreciation Lists:

Medium Writers Appreciation #1

Medium Writers Appreciation #2

Medium Writers Appreciation #3

Medium Writers Appreciation #4

Medium Writers Appreciation #5

Medium Writers Appreciation #6

Medium Writers Appreciation #7

Medium Writers Appreciation #8

Medium Writers Appreciation #9

Medium Writers Appreciation #10

Medium Writers Appreciation #11

Medium Writers Appreciation #12

Medium Writers Appreciation #13

Lori Carlson writes Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Creative Non-Fiction and Personal Essays. Most of her topics are centered around Relationships, Spirituality, Nature, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Loss and Death, and the LGBTQ+ community.