Catholic New Yorker continues quest for accountability 20 years after 9/11 catholicsun.org
After seeing the Taliban’s sweep through Afghanistan to retake governing control, Colleen Kelly wonders if accountability for the death of her brother in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York 20 years ago and the subsequent war in Afghanistan will ever be achieved.
“This is really a hard week. It just feels like nothing has really changed,” Kelly told Catholic News Service Aug. 17, her voice cracking.
She has found herself repeatedly returning to thoughts of her brother, Bill, and the pain inflicted on him and nearly 3,000 others who died in the collapse of the towers, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania. There’s also the emotional pain of surviving family and friends who experienced loss…
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