First, let me start by saying it would not happen today. No way today, 4 planes would be simultaneously hijacked. Clumsy as our airport security and surveillance may appear, it would not happen today. I am so optimistic, that I have flown on 9/11 most years since 2001.
It is also good to see how much emergency management has evolved in the last few years driven by other terrorism, hurricanes, pandemic planning. On this blog I have profiled:
Wearable computers for emergency rescue workers
Improved communications for emergency rescue workers
Social Media usage in fighting wildfires
Pandemic followed by a crippling cyber-terror attack
Sahana software developed after the Asian Tsunami
The best way to honor those who died is to make sure it never happens again – certainly not at that catastrophic level ever again.
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