Seven years have passed since we watched a blue September sky turn gray as terrorists changed the world we knew.
We have a responsibility to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again. When Congress discusses national security, it’s often in technical, detached terminology: appropriations, border fences, airport regulations. But when you see the families read the names of 2,751 victims today, you realize there is nothing detached about protecting our country.
Above all, September 11 was and is about people. There are those who were lost, those who were left behind, those who rose to the occasion with the rarest kind of courage, those who survived. Today, we are all survivors, profoundly affected by a single day that changed our American story.
