Like most adults in Clay and Ray counties, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I was at work. On deadline. As editor of The Liberty Sun-News, The Gladstone Sun-News and The Platte County Sun-Gazette, I had to make sure all three Northland newspapers got out the door on time to reach about 60,000 households. Unfortunately, in this case, they did. “Unfortunately,” I write, because at that time, I knew only that a passenger jet had caused an explosion involving one of the twin towers at New York’s World Trade Center complex. Tragic, yes, but not a weekly community newspaper priority. Maybe 100 people in that plane would have died and maybe some people in the tower, too – that much I would have realized with regret for all involved. As the day wore on, too late to develop area news coverage, a fuller, far more tragic and infuriating set of circumstances emerged. A highjacked passenger jet had struck one tower. Then, a highjacked passenger jet had struck another tower. I did not need CNN to…