It's been 13 years

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

That's thing about that day, or evening for, me.

I was in bed watching West Wing (naturally), then there was a newsflash. I ran straight out to the living room to watch CNN. I sat there until 5am... couldn't sleep. I was 17 and my memories are very sharp and very vivid. I saw real-time, people throwing themselves out of the building, the desperation and terror in people's eyes.

It's very real.

Just over a year later someone I'd known since I was 5 was killed in the Bali bombings. My view from this and from other terrible experiences in my life, you have to live for the living. Remember and commemorate the dead - but always look forward and realise that embracing grief porn, that I see each and every year on TV is not a way. I think this is very risky to people who were very young and for them 9/11 is an idea, not a real event. I think to an extent feel left out from those of us who remember so clearly - so try to recreate the feelings.

How you choose to commemorate those who died is up to you, but realise that they won't be forgotten because you don't undertake some grand gesture of remembrance.