Reflections on 9/11
It has been 10 years and I still vividly remember that taxi trip from JFK to the International House, safely tucked between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue. I still remember the skyline with two towers of WTC piercing the clouds over Manhattan. I was a visiting scholar and Public Interest Law Fellow at Columbia University, excited and eager to explore everything New York has to offer. Coming from Serbia which just survived NATO bombing in 1999, I was also hoping for some stability. It would be a gross understatement to say that I was so looking forward to joining other fellows and students at Columbia University Law School. On the very last day of August, I visited the WTC with my friend and fellow from Russia, Anton Burkov. We went all the way to the top and admired the view. I still remember almost every face I saw that day: a young lift boy with high cheeks, a waitress that told us we can't go all the way in to the restaurant but that we can admire the view from aside... ...
