09/11/2026
Twenty-five years today.
For our Long Island communities, this was never a distant headline. Firehouses, train platforms, kitchen tables. Almost everyone here knows a name.
Today, we remember them.
Days of remembrance ask something of us. To pause. To hold the people we lost, and to notice what's still in front of us: the people we love, the mornings we're given, the bodies that carry us through all of it.
Gratitude does real work on days like this. It steadies the mind, and the mind carries the body. Taking a moment to be thankful, especially on the hard days, is part of staying whole.
So today: call somebody. Take the walk. Say the thing out loud.
Live the day fully. That's one way to honor the ones who can't.
Always remember.