She’s Never Missed a Single September

Part 2: Twenty-five years after 9/11, Jaclyn Bernstein is still the person you’d have trusted to show up before you knew why.

This is part two of a two-part profile. Read part one here first.

The tent went up on the West Side Highway, close enough to the ramp that everyone in the industry still just calls the ramp, the one that ran down into the pit before there was a museum or a bronze parapet with the names cut into it. Jaclyn Bernstein and Rob Hulsmeyer were inside that tent…