9/11: Hard to believe, but it’s been 15 years to the day since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Commemorations are being held this morning in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania where flight 93 crashed into a field after passengers tried to fight back against the men who took control of their plane.

Americans have spent billions of dollars on security since that day and the Freedom Tower, which is a symbolic 1,776 feet tall, now stands where the twin towners of the World Trade Center once dominated the New York skyline.

Bitch: Writer Andi Zeisler ruminates in the NY Times about the label commonly attached to the tough, tough-minded, and ambitious Hillary Clinton. Zeisler writes, “‘Bitch’ has long been an effective way to silence women because so many of us have been brought up to believe that remaining likable to others — even those we ourselves don’t like — is paramount.”

Zeisler says, “It’s not just that ‘Bitches get stuff done,’ as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pointed out in a hilarious defense of Mrs. Clinton back in 2008. It’s that they reject the expectations, assumptions and double standards that have always dogged women in the American political system. As one of the memes Mrs. Clinton inspires might put it, we need a bitch who can do both.”

Sorry Bitch: The Trump camp is expressing shock at Hillary Clinton’s description of half their supporters as “a basket full of deplorables.”  Clinton has apologized, but she doesn’t seem to understand that apologizing for saying something stupid and grossly insulting is not the way to attract voters in the current presidential campaign.

Nation: John Hinckley Jr., the mentally-ill gunman who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 was released yesterday from a Washington psychiatric hospital. At 61, Hinckley has been judged no longer a danger.

Hangup: Samsung has advised owners of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to immediately turn them off and turn them in for a new phone. Samsung’s new phone has a tendency to overheat and burn.

Net: Angelique Kerber became the first German woman tennis player to win the US Open final since Steffi Graf in 1996 on her way to becoming the #1 player in the world.  She beat Karolina Pliskova, in a challenging final, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. At age 28, it’s Kerber’s first Grand Slam title, won in 90-degree heat with 63 percent humidity.

America’s great Serena Williams lost to Pliskova in the semi-finals, finishing her reign as #1 at 186 weeks.

The Obit Page: Greta Friedman, one of several women who claimed to be the nurse kissed by a sailor in the iconic photo taken in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt on VJ Day, Aug. 14. 1945, has died at age 92. Eleven men and three women eventually claimed to be depicted in the picture, but Friedman said it happened to her and, “It’s exactly my figure, and what I wore, and my hairdo especially.”

Victory at Sea: The Navy has unveiled its futuristic new destroyer, the 610-foot Zumwalt, which doesn’t look like any fighting ship you ever saw. The hull and conning tower are angular to create a lower radar profile. The guns are not immediately visible, but the two main guns have a range of 70 miles.

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