Remembering 9/11

Today as we mark the 18th anniversary of 9/11, all of us at ProgramBusiness.com and Neilson Marketing Services remember the men and women who lost their lives.

Source: Neilson Marketing Services | Published on September 11, 2019

Closeup of a 9-11 memorial carved into a granite rock. Pictured on it is a flag of the United States with the words: "Sept 11, 2001 A day to remember United We Stand". Canon 5D MarkII.

America’s poet laureate, Billy Collins, wrote a poem he called ‘The Names’ about the 2,792 who perished that day. Here are its closing lines:

Names etched on
the head of a pin.

One name spanning
a bridge, another
undergoing a tunnel.

A blue name needled
into the skin.

Names of citizens,
workers, mothers,
and fathers,

The bright-eyed
daughter, the quick son.

Alphabet of names in
a green field.

Names in the small tracks of birds.

Names lifted from a hat

Or balanced on
the tip of the tongue.

Names wheeled
into the dim warehouse
of memory.

So many names, there
is barely room on
the walls of the heart.”