9/11
Twenty years ago today, on the 11th September 2001, four US passenger jets were seized by suicide attackers. Two were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, another crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. Just under three thousand people were killed. I have no direct connection to the event but in a way it still changed my life. I was nine at the time and had had an ordinary, forgettable day at school. It was the lollipop man that safely guided us across the road twice a day that asked my Dad if he had seen what had happened. Whilst the internet very much existed, this was before the time when you were constantly connected to the world and no-one I knew had a smartphone. My Dad had been working and hadn't switched on the TV, which was the main source of news in those days. We arrived home and someone switched on the TV. We'd always watched children's TV for a while before dinner tim...