\u201cThe memories are so vivid,\u201d says Lomonaco, who helped start a fund for the families of his staff and who has gone on to run several successful restaurants in the city. \u201cA generation has grown up since then, but it still seems like yesterday to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 25th anniversary marks a swath of time that can be illuminating because, to someone who is younger than 30, it feels like an eternity. Or a lifetime, which to someone who actually is 25, it is. But to someone who is over 50, as I am, it feels like a chapter. A long one, perhaps. But, still, a part of something else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
9\/11 is a hinge of time that separates generations. It shouldn\u2019t be surprising\u2014but it always is\u2014when I ask young folks about 9\/11, and they just can\u2019t get their hearts around it. It\u2019s something that they learned about in class or saw on YouTube. They don\u2019t feel it like I do. Like we do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those of us who are moved by this anniversary\u2014no matter how close we were to the actual tragedy\u2014should find some way to talk about it. \u201cWe have an obligation,\u201d Lomonaco says. \u201cWhen we talk about the people who died, we\u2019re acknowledging the significance of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe memories are so vivid,\u201d says Lomonaco, who helped start a fund for the families of his staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5301,1472,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-336987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-9-11","tag-magazine","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}