Atlantic Panel Marks 25 Years Since 9/11 Attacks — SkimNews
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- Jeffrey Goldberg hosted a Washington Week With The Atlantic panel marking 25 years since nearly 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
- Jonathan Lemire, then an intern at the New York Daily News, was sent by his editor to nearby hospitals, where the most harrowing image was beds lined up that "stayed empty" because the expected survivors never arrived.
- Panelists included Ann Compton, a former ABC News White House correspondent, alongside Atlantic staff writers Sally Jenkins and Graeme Wood.
- Goldberg said of the victims: "As far as I'm concerned, we can never talk about them enough."
- The panel examined the broader fallout from one of the most terrifying events in the nation's history.
Why it matters: The commemoration arrives as the generation that experienced 9/11 as adults passes the telling to journalists like Lemire, who witnessed the attacks as a 20-something intern; his account of empty hospital beds captures a human detail about the attacks' scale that the official death toll cannot.
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