How did 9-11 change us as a people?

What are we just understanding now?

And what is the inward work of moving forward within during grief and unfolding understanding?

I explored this in a public event at the Edge of Ground Zero with the New Yorkers

Hendrick Hertzberg, Journalist and Novelist Pancash Mishra and Theologian Serene Jones.

We gathered with a live audience in the round at St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Wall Street.

This was the center of care and rest for recovery workers in the immediate days and months

after 9-11.

From APM, American Public Media, I'm Christa Tippett, today on being remembering forward

10 years after 9-11.

Thank you.

It's a real honor to be here in this place, which became not just a symbol, but really

the practical heart of the enobling human responses of care and generosity that marked those

immediate post 9-11 days.

But it's also, and I became more and more aware of this today as the hour drew near, that

it's a heavy, weighty honor to be in this place in this week.

And I'm very pleased and comforted to be joined up here by three people who I deeply admire.

I agree with someone else's characterization of Hendrick Hertzberg that he is one of

America's most necessary voices.

And what I so appreciate is whatever his subject is, he brings to it not just intelligence,

but dignity.

Pancash Mishra, in my mind, is one of the wisest thinkers and writers on any continent.

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