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When I Remember September 11: Every Day

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By Chet Dalzell

It’s Monday, September 11.

When I board my flight today bound for New York, I will be certainly aware it’s perhaps the safest day to fly. You see, September 11 is always a part of me.

On a warm, sunny morning in September 16 years ago, I was prepping for my monthly cross-company privacy team call at Harte Hanks in our Greenwich Village office.

As we opened the call shortly after 8:45 a.m. — my colleague peeked his head in the door of the conference room, “I just saw a plane hit the World Trade Center.”

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Chet Dalzell

Marketing Sustainably: A blog posting questions, opportunities, concerns and observations on sustainability in marketing. Chet Dalzell has 25 years of public relations management and expertise in service to leading brands in consumer, donor, patient and business-to-business markets, and in the field of integrated marketing. He serves on the ANA International ECHO Awards Board of Governors, as an adviser to the Direct Marketing Club of New York, and is senior director, communications and industry relations, with the Digital Advertising Alliance. Chet loves UConn Basketball (men's and women's) and Nebraska Football (that's just men, at this point), too! 

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