Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: September 11

  • William Langewiesche on “Public Grief”

    William Langewiesche on “Public Grief”

    I spent some time catching up on the NPR Story of the Day Podcast today while I was folding laundry. Some were fairly memorable, but my favorite was an interview with this All Things Considered interview by Guy Raz with the journalist, novelist, and former pilot William Langewiesche. After the World Trade Center was destroyed, Langewiesche spent…

  • The Things I Do Not Remember: September 11, 2001

    Ten years ago, I was living in the LDS Missionary Training Centre (MTC) in Chorley, England, near Preston. I arrived there in early September at the beginning of what was to be a two year proselytizing mission for the Church. While I was at the MTC, I was assigned to live and study with a ‘companion’, the…