I lost my wife on 9/11. Please let this 25th anniversary belong to the families

Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, 2001, my wife Grace was at her desk on the 105th floor of the North Tower. She was 29 years old. She will always be 29 years old.

Twenty-five years is long enough to learn that grief doesn't end. It learns your calendar. Somewhere in early August it starts: the tightening, the bracing, the counting down to the morning I return to the place where Grace was taken from us.

It’s there that I, along with every other family at Ground Zero, remember our own Grace.