Project 2,996 was created back in 2006. So, even though it’s not yet 10 years old, this will be the 10th 9/11 where I have encouraged others to remember these people not by rehashing their very public deaths, but by learning about their lives.
I’ll freely admit when the idea came to me that I didn’t expect it to take off the way it did. In fact, until right before 9/11 I actually had the information contained on a single page of my existing blog. Then on 9/11 so many people visited my website–to see the list and follow the links–that I used up all my allotted traffic before I even woke up. I had trouble getting my site back up because every time my webhost tried to bring it back up a flood of incoming traffic immediately took it back down. Thankfully, some of the other participants put up mirrors of the list. That first year, even though my site was down for more than 12 hours, my webhost logged more than 2 million incoming requests.
However, what shocked me was how many people were willing to sign up to learn about–and write about–someone they never met.
This year–as I always do–I invite you to learn about those killed on 9/11.
Where Is My Spot? 
Ed Felt, who died on Flight 93, was in my sister’s class in school. And one of my other sisters, her husband, and my father were all working in the city that day, the first two being in the Financial District. It was a horrible day.
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