We used to say that September 11 changed everything. And so it did — although, as we discussed on Charlie Cooke’s podcast, the world hasn’t stopped changing since then. But it didn’t just change things in general: It changed our lives individually.

I was there on September 11, and it had some immediate and direct effects on my day-to-day life: They blew up my office, so I had to work in Midtown for the remaining 18 years of my legal career. It had secondary........

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