New Summer 2026 Issue of VBC Magazine: Remembering 9/11, Twenty-Five Years Later

By Todd DePastino

For many of us, September 11, 2001, remains a vivid personal memory. We remember where we were when we heard the news. We remember the smoke, the confusion, and the sense that history had suddenly burst into our lives like an unwelcome intruder.

But twenty-five years is a long time.

More than a generation of Americans has grown up with no memory of that day. For them, 9/11…