I was driving a two-hour commute to teach a college class. I listened to the news on the radio. At one point I had to pull over on the side of the road just to catch my breath. Later, I passed others who had done the same. When I got to school, I spent half an hour trying to figure out how to break the news to my students, because none of them had heard yet. I canceled the day’s lessons. I told them they could leave to call family or friends if they needed to, or they could stay and talk about how they were feeling. I asked them to try and not react with anger, because it was almost certainly anger that caused the attacks in the first place. Eleven years later, I am still asking people to remember that.
Samuel Snoek-Brown 
Well said and remembered.
Thank you.
I found this to be a sane commentary: http://rabbibrant.com/2012/09/11/after-11-years-nationalism-is-still-our-preferred-method-of-grief/
I also remember how ‘The West Wing’ marked the occurrence, how dignified a statement their response was.
M