All future vision and past remembrance is subjective, tinted by the lenses of our own contexts and experiences. September 11 can be remembered through lenses tinted with outrage and patriotic hubris, or as Brian Concannon describes, lenses tinted with empathy from suffering endured. Brian Concannon, human rights attorney and champion of long-oppressed Haitians,

The 2010 Report from Giving USA, which measures philanthropic giving from the U.S. by sectors and recipient types, noted a 15.3% increase in giving to International Affairs in 2010 — the largest increase of any sector — whereas overall giving rose by only 3.8%! Since 2008 total global giving from the US rose 18.8%.

In an open-air pavilion on land donated by the municipality of Leogane, Haitian parents and children moved miniature cardboard houses and paper trees to mock-up the design for a new model community funded by donors to Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanity and to be built by their own hands.