It's Thursday, September the 12th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is

written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. There are days that

change our lives, the day we were married, the day a child is born, the day a loved one dies,

and there are days that change history.

Ground Zero reverse of the site where the two tallest towers of New York City's World Trade Center

collapsed on September the 11th, 2001. I remember vividly my visit to this somber and sobering site some years ago.

Yesterday, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump,

Vice President Kamala Harris,

and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance

stood there together as the names of the victims were read.

The gathering gave testimony to the deep pain

all-Americans still share on the anniversary

of the worst terrorist attack

in our nation's history.

The memory of that tragedy still haunts many of us.

The following may be emotionally difficult, but Lawrence Wright does an excellent job in

the looming tower describing what happened that morning in New York City.

Quote, the cloudless sky filled with coiling black smoke and a blizzard of paper, memos, photographs, stock transactions,

insurance policies, which fluttered for miles on a gentle southeasterly breeze across the

East River into Brooklyn. Debris spewed onto the streets

of Lower Manhattan, which were already covered with bodies. Some of them had been exploded

out of the building when the planes hit. A man walked out of the towers carrying someone else's

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