NEW YORK — Clustered around a touchscreen at the Sept. 11 museum, a group of high school students inscribed a message that began, “#neveragain.”The sentiment fit where they were, but also where they were coming from: the Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last month. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wind Symphony planned Wednesday’s visit long ago, after getting invited to perform in a high school band showcase Tuesday at Carnegie Hall. But the trip to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City took on a deeper personal dimension after the Feb. 14 rampage at the school in Parkland, Florida. They were infants or not yet born on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists destroyed the occupied World Trade Center towers, but the line between 9-11 and their loss wasn’t abstract. I wish I didn’t.”Lutnick, CEO of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, lost more than 650 colleagues on Sept. 11, including his brother, Gary.

Source: National Post March 07, 2018 20:38 UTC