In loving memory of
Venice Allison

• November 25, 1921
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• April 29, 2013

I found out about 9/11 when I woke up, saw the plane hit the first of the towers on my nanhtstigd TV, and assumed it was a trailer for a Tom Clancy novel. I found out about Bin Laden when college friends—mostly journalists now—updated their FB statuses. But social media played a huge role in how I viewed the human response. The most moving messages I read on 9/11 were from improvisers on the YesAnd.com boards—offering support from all over the world, and offering safe places in New York for their neighbors to sleep or call their families.