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The Black Sheep
September 11, 2026

There are certain events that divide history into a before and an after. On this day everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing like when Ronald Regan was shot .. and John Lennon and the shuttle disaster to name a few of these times during my lifetime. But this was different because after this day nothing was ever the same again.

September 11, 2001

For those of us old enough to remember that day, the question is never simply, “Do you remember what happened?” It is, “Where were you when you heard?”.. and “What were you doing that you stopped doing and who did you call when it happened?”

Everyone in my generation remembers I was in my 30’s recently married .. a new house and new car or should I say a mortgage and a car payment and $60 every two weeks for spending money that included hair cuts.

I was working in Calgary as an exploration geologist for the American oil and gas company Anadarko Petroleum. It was an old-school exploration company run by what I would call a real oilman—the kind of larger-than-life Texas character I could easily imagine driving a pink Cadillac with bull horns mounted on the front, puffing on a big, fat Cuban cigar. If you were working in Calgary at that time he was comparable to J.C. Anderson. The oil patch does not have people like this anymore but I digress.

Anadarko took its name from the Anadarko Basin, the major oil-and-gas-producing geological basin stretching beneath Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and parts of Kansas and Colorado. The word itself traces back to the Nadaco people of the Caddo Nation; Nadá-kuh has been translated as “bumblebee place.”

On that September morning, we watched something almost impossible to comprehend unfold on television: hijacked aircraft striking the World Trade Center towers, another hitting the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back.

It did not feel real—but it was horrifyingly real.

Nearly 3,000 innocent people were killed. Thousands more were injured. Families were shattered in minutes. Police officers, firefighters, paramedics and ordinary citizens ran toward danger while everyone else was desperately trying to escape.

Anadarko closed its Calgary and American offices, and we were all sent home. The message from the top ended with three words that carried enormous weight that day:

God bless America.

We knew, even then, that the world had changed.

We just didn’t know how much.

Twenty-Five Years Later

Here we are, 25 years later.

Since September 11, we have lived through wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2008 global financial crisis, political upheaval, mass surveillance, terrorism, social division and a pandemic that brought much of the planet to a standstill.

Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, the destruction and human suffering in Gaza, and other conflicts threatening to pull an already unstable world even farther apart.

The promise that globalization and technology would bring humanity closer together has only partly come true. We are more connected than ever, yet in many ways we have become more divided, suspicious and tribal.

September 11 did not create every crisis that followed, but it changed the direction of history. It altered how we travel, how governments monitor people, how nations define security and how entire generations understand fear.

The world was never the same again.

Newfoundland Answered Terror With Kindness

As a Newfoundlander, I would be remiss if I did not mention what happened in my home province when American airspace was closed.

Thirty-eight commercial aircraft carrying approximately 7,000 passengers were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland—a town with a population of only about 10,000.

Thousands of frightened and exhausted strangers suddenly arrived with nowhere to go.

The people of Gander and the surrounding communities did not hesitate. They opened their schools, churches, community halls and homes. They prepared meals, supplied clothing and bedding, filled prescriptions, cared for animals and treated complete strangers like family.

While terrorists showed the world the worst of humanity, Newfoundlanders showed the world some of its best.

That extraordinary response inspired the internationally acclaimed musical Come From Away, written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. The production transformed a terrible moment in history into a lasting story about compassion, courage and the stubborn human refusal to let hatred have the final word.

Gander’s response remains one of the proudest chapters in Newfoundland history—and one of the few lights to emerge from the darkness of September 11.

The Next Twenty-Five Years

If I am fortunate enough to be here 25 years from now, I will be in my eighties.

I can only imagine how different the world will look by then.

Artificial intelligence is already beginning to transform medicine, education, employment, science, warfare, communication and even the meaning of human creativity. It may help us solve problems that once appeared impossible. It may also give governments, corporations and individuals powers that humanity is not yet wise enough to control.

The technology will change. The threats will change. The names of the wars and crises will change.

But the fundamental choice facing humanity will remain the same.

Do we respond to fear with more fear, hatred with hatred and violence with violence?

Or do we respond as the people of Gander did—with courage, generosity and humanity?

September 11 must never become just another date in a history book. We must remember the people who left for work, boarded an airplane or reported for duty that morning and never returned home. We must remember the families who still carry that loss. We must remember the first responders who sacrificed everything.

And we must remember what Newfoundland showed the world when the world needed it most:

Even on humanity’s darkest day, ordinary people can still choose to become a light.

We remember.

God bless those who were lost. God bless those who ran toward danger. God bless Newfoundland and Labrador. And God bless America.

— The Black Sheep
September 11, 2026

Sources: The 9/11 Commission Report | Come From Away and Gander’s story | History of Anadarko Petroleum | Origin of the name Anadarko