09/11/2026
SPECIAL EDITION FRONT PORCH FRIDAY:
9/11 25th Anniversary
📍Where were you?
Twenty-five years ago, a lot of us were sitting at our desks at school, some of you were already at work, or home taking care of families. But wherever you were, eventually the television was on, the news was breaking out of New York City. Nothing else that was supposed to matter that Tuesday morning, mattered very much at all.
And we remember what came afterward.
The flags. The first responders. The stories of strangers helping strangers. For a while, through an unimaginable amount of grief, there was this overwhelming feeling that we were Americans together.
The kids grew up and adults grew older, but that day never really grew distant for any of us who watched it unfold.
25 years later, some of us have traveled to the places we first saw on those television screens. We’ve stood beside the reflecting pools in New York, walked through the Pentagon Memorial, or found ourselves in the quiet Pennsylvania countryside at Flight 93 National Memorial.
And there’s something about standing there that brings you right back… and you remember September 11, 2001.
So today the ORT Front Porch is a place to reflect, recall, and most importantly remember the ones we lost.
Where were you on September 11, 2001? What do you remember most?
And if you’ve traveled to one of the memorials to pay your respects, what was it like to stand there?
Twenty-five years later, we still remember.
And today, we’d really like to remember together.
