Twenty Years On: A 9/11 Survivor's Story and the Attack's Lasting Legacy

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks; Michael Burke lost his close friend Kieran Gorman and witnessed the devastation as a volunteer rescue worker.

Twenty years after nineteen hijackers turned four passenger jets into instruments of mass death, the September 11 attacks remain not merely a historical event but a living wound — carried in the bodies of rescue workers, in the absences left by nearly three thousand dead, and in the reshaped architecture of global power that followed. For men like New York carpenter Michael Burke, who lost his friend Kieran Gorman and volunteered in the smoldering ruins of ground zero, the date is not a commemoration but a permanent threshold — the morning that divided everything into before and after. What be

Twenty Years On: A 9/11 Survivor's Story and the Attack's Lasting Legacy

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