By Martin Bosworth This is going to be a slightly different 9/11 recollection. I’m not going to start by telling you where I was and what I was doing that day. Because 9/11 isn’t about me, really. Or you, or any one single person. It’s about something deeper, something that touches every person, everywhere. It’s […]
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9/11- the helicoptering dad experience…
I was just coming back to my office at the university from teaching an 8 AM class. As I passed the department offices, I noticed a TV had been brought in and that the chair, the secretaries, and a couple of professors were gathered around it. “What’s going on?” I asked. “A plane crashed into […]
Six years on
Who’ll walk me down to church when I’m sixty years of age When the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave And senorita play guitar, play it just for you My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through You’ve hung up your great coat and you’ve laid […]
A South African’s experience of September 11th, 2001
I had been running the Western Cape branch of Business Beat, a Deloitte-sponsored business development initiative, for two years. In 2001 it was decided that I needed a board. The board’s first meeting was early afternoon on 11 September 2001. The senior partner of Deloitte had been talking generally and introducing us to the expected […]
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