I don't know what it is about our culture that requires that everything be sensationalized. I intend to spend the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks avoiding the media as much as possible. Any of us who were at any of the key landmarks that day have our own stories, and I've spent the past week hearing about them over and over and over again. What I haven't heard much of are the roughly 3,000 stories we'll never know in their entirety; these are the stories that matter most to me today.
These are the people I'll be remembering today. The rest of us can be remembered tomorrow.