Published by  | | | | Twenty years ago, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 fundamentally reshaped the United States. The impact of the blasts reverberated across the country and beyond, touching peoples' lives in uncountable ways. The question "Where were you on 9/11?" continues to evoke deeply personal, visceral responses. Stacey Stone, then 40, was driving in the car and listening to the radio when she heard that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Stone knew immediately that something was wrong, she said. Her husband, Lonny Jay Stone, 43, worked on the 92nd floor of the North Tower, two floors below where the plane hit at 8:46 a.m. | | | Stacey and Lonny Stone on their wedding day. (Courtesy of Stacey Stone) | | Returning home, the phone in her kitchen began to ring and did not stop, she said. All the while, friends and family arrived at the house, waiting for news of Lonny. "I'll never forget what I saw. … They were showing the building, his building," she recalled. At 5 o'clock, Stone sat down with their two sons, Alex, 12, and Josh, 8, and told them, "I don't think he's going to be coming home." On Dec. 27, officials confirmed they'd found his remains. Over the course of several years, Stone said she received multiple calls as more of his remains were identified. For Stone, the tragic loss made her a different person: "They say there's always some good that comes out of tragedy, and I would say that's the good thing. I found my strength and raised two wonderful children." Stone is among the more than 350 people who shared their stories with The Washington Post on Instagram. We spoke with her and four other women who count 9/11 as redefining their lives. | | | | | More stories commemorating the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 | | | (Courtesy of Sadia Ali Heil; Washington Post illustration) | | Three need-to-know stories | | | (Go Nakamura for The Washington Post) | 01.Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said last week, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea level rise. 02.Now that S.B. 8 has outlawed abortions after six weeks in Texas, crisis pregnancy centers, which are largely faith-based and explicitly antiabortion in their mission, are anticipating a surge in patients from pregnant people in desperate need of care, writes Caroline Kitchener. 03.First lady Jill Biden is among the thousands of teachers heading back to the classroom this fall. Starting this week, Biden will be spending every Tuesday and Thursday for 13 weeks on the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College, according to a class schedule available to students. She is the first first lady to maintain a full-time job outside the East Wing, writes Jada Yuan in The Post. | | | | | | | A story to make you smile | | | (Edgar Grimaldo/U.S. Air Force/AFP) | | An Afghan girl, spirited to safety while still in her mother's womb, will not only have a gripping story to tell about her dramatic delivery; she also has a high-flying name to match. The baby's parents named their daughter "Reach," after the call sign on the Air Force C-17 aircraft that evacuated them from Afghanistan to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Aug. 21. Aided by medics, the mother delivered Reach in the cargo bay of the aircraft. A group of female evacuees surrounded the mother and held up their shawls to protect her privacy, said Army Capt. Erin Brymer, a nurse at the military's nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. "It was a beautiful sight to see." Read more from Kim Bellware in The Post. | | | | | But before we part, some recs | | | (Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post) | Neema Roshania PatelEditor, The LilyWhat I'm watching:I just finished binge-watching "We are Lady Parts," an absolutely brilliant British sitcom about a biochemical engineering PhD student who becomes the lead guitarist in an all-women Muslim punk band trying to land their first gig. How I'm keeping plants alive:I uploaded all my houseplants to Planta. It identifies them, creates a care schedule and sends reminders of when and how much to water each of my plants. How I'm saving time:I use ginger constantly, so I started buying a huge bag all at once, shredding it in a food processor and freezing it in an ice cube tray so I'm not peeling it every night. | | | | |
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