The Triumph of 9/10

The Day that was to Change Everything Didn't

September 11th was the only day I was ever invited to breakfast at Windows on the World, atop New York City’s World Trade Center. I had no intention of going, mind you. The invite had been extended offhandedly the prior evening by Neil Levin, executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, builder and owner of the Twin Towers and operator of the metropolitan area’s three major airports.

On what turned out to be the last afternoon of his life, Levin was enthusiastically guiding me around John …