When the date 9/11 returns, 12 years after two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, it’s not only an occasion to remember and pay tributes to the dead. It’s also time to consider anew the fact that the aftershocks of what happened 12 years ago continue to be felt in America and across the world. Here is a selection of some excellent reads on 9/11, 12 years after.
In a report on 1,100 people – including aid workers – who worked or lived near the twin towers who have been diagnosed with cancer, the World Trade Center Health Program’s medical insurance will now be extended to them as well.
On the tributes being organized to mark the completion of 12 years since the attack makes a mention of New York Mayor Michael R Bloomberg who was elected just a few weeks after the attack and whose term is now ending and the families and friends of the victims who come for the ritual memorial because “it helps a little” as one member of the congregation at the site told the paper.
A New Yorker who was in his teens in 2001 who went on to sign up for the Army and, this summer, was killed in Afghanistan. In a separate report, New York Times says, “Imagine if Hurricane Sandy had followed the terrorist attack by a few hours.”
Describing the lasting contribution of Arturo Lamberto Ressi di Cervia who supervised the construction of a slurry wall with around the trade center foundation in the 1960s, the report says despite the immense strain as the towers began to collapse, the foundation did not fill with water thanks to the slurry wall not giving way, preventing a possible inundation of subway tunnels below.
