When I got first heard that we at The Good Men Project would have a focused discussion on the ten-year anniversary of the tragedy of 9-11, and on how life has changed for men, and Americans, I declined the invitation. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say. I have an interesting story about where I was “when the Towers fell” but I didn’t latch on to an angle to squeeze it into a box about how things have changed.

However, tonight as the clock flipped from pm to am and the tenth changed to the eleventh, I took a close look at where I was when that happened. I could not help but feel and see the differences in me, in what was flowing so freely from the television news, which was on later than usual from unseen heightened security at the U.S Open tennis event. Something about the powers that be saying, “carry on as normal with your lives” while stopping cars and pedestrians for impromptu searches every three blocks or so in Manhattan didn’t ring true.

We have a tendency to keep our failing memories fresh with common recollections about where we were when certain events happened. Kennedy’s death, planting a flag on the moon, MLK’s assassination, and for the next generation, Cobain’s death. Now the terror attack on 9-11-01.

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