HOW DID 9/11 CHANGE ARIZONA AND ARIZONANS?

posted by Michael Chihak

The stinging rebuke that the 9/11 terrorist attacks sent to Americans' safety, security and freedom has lessened somewhat with the passage of a decade. But memories of that day and what it wrought for all remain vivid.

On Friday's Arizona Week, we will ask Arizonans their personal stories and remembrances, and we will pursue information about how some of them have acted upon their thoughts and emotions in the aftermath.

On the program:

-- Maqsood Ahmad, a Tucsonan and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Center of Tucson.

-- Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Tucson's Temple Emanu-El.

-- Rana Singh Sodhi, a Gilbert, AZ, businessman whose brother Balbir was killed four days after 9/11 in Mesa in what authorities called a hate crime.

-- Rep. John Kavanagh, of Fountain Hills, AZ, a state representative and retired police detective with the New York Port Authority, which was headquartered at the World Trade Center.