Today is Monday, September the 12th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim

Denison.

I wish I'd been in New York City last night to see the Tribute in Light in person.

Each September 11th, two beams, comprised of 88, 7,000-watt, Thinon light bulbs,

are released into the sky to echo the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers.

Just seeing the video of the tribute was deeply moving for me. All of us old enough to remember

9-11 will never forget it. The shock when the first plane flew into the North Tower. The horror

when the second plane struck the South Tower. The buildings spewing smoke into the sky.

The people fleeing their burning floors by jumping to their deaths, the attack on the Pentagon, the collapse of the South Tower, the crash in Pennsylvania, the collapse of the North Tower.

Less than three hours after the first plane to be hijacked left the Boston airport, the iconic twin towers lay in ruins in lower Manhattan.

A few years earlier, I stood at the base of the World Trade Center.

From the ground, I could not see the top of the two towers, that such colossal buildings could be destroyed so quickly is still staggering to me.

Each year's anniversary is another reminder of our finitude, frailty, and mortality.

Another headline in today's news is a similar reminder.

Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrived in Scotland's capital of Edinburgh yesterday

after a six-hour procession from her beloved Balmoral Castle.

King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla are traveling today to join another procession,

taking the Queen's coffin to St.

Giles Cathedral, where it will remain for 24 hours so the Scottish public can pay their respects.

It will be flown to London on Tuesday.

Charles became king in the moment of his mother's death, though his coronation could still be months away.

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