9/11 — Genelle Guzman-McMillan: The Impossible Hope in the Intangible
Grace Notes in Context · September 11 Remembrance 9/11 — GENELLE GUZMAN-McMILLAN The Impossible Hope in the Intangible Angel in the Rubble Most of us Trinis might possibly not know how incredibly our own lineage is woven into the story of the worst nightmare to have occurred in that mecca of international congruence we call New York City. If we believe the words of our own Trinidad and Tobago national anthem, “where every creed and race find an equal place,” New York City in so many ways epitomizes that extraordinary convergence, where foreigners from every point of the globe congregate in this epicenter and somehow create a home away from home. They arrive carrying accents, cultures, religions, memories, aspirations and dreams, and on September 11, 2001, people from across that human spectrum suddenly shared the same terrifying vulnerability. ...
