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Last week my daughter asked me, "What do you remember about 9/11?" She said it was an assignment for school and wanted to ask the people in our family who were alive at that time, what they remembered. As I sat there thinking about that tragic day, a flood of memories came to mind.

We were living in Japan in 2001, our second child just being born a couple of months prior. As I came home from a typical day at work, the television was on and I saw a video of a plane crashing into a building. In Japan, it was common for older and popular American movies to be broadcasted in the evenings, so at...