9/11, Ten Years Later: Stories From Home and Abroad

On Thursday, Brookfield Patch brought you the story of , who was part of a team that visited Ground Zero to counsel first responders engaged in the rescue effort following 9/11.

“It was probably the best and the worst thing I ever did,” Washcovick said. “You saw the best of people because everyone was pulling together. But for me as a Christian guy, there was a tremendous sense of loss there, loss of human life and as Christians making yourself right with God, there was just an overwhelming sense of loss of souls.”

His story and so many others reveal how the events of 9/11 have affected people across the United States and the world.

At the 10th anniversary, Patch journalists throughout Milwaukee and the entire country are telling those stories. A dazzling photo gallery collecting 911 anecdotes resides on Huffington Post, and a Patch in Western Pennsylvania that are memorialized around the nation. We also invite you to read these in-depth articles from the southeast Wisconsin Patch communities:

Brookfield:

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Fox Point:

Greenfield:  

Menomonee Falls:

Muskego:

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Oak Creek:

Port Washington:

Shorewood:

Sussex:

Whitefish Bay:

Waukesha:

Wauwatosa: