26+ years of published Op/Ed columns, professional photography, my first book and more from the 28 known galaxies!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 9/2014 Thursday, September 11, 2014: According to various web sites, somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 kids across America…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 9/2011 Earlier this month, I interviewed a former firefighter who worked at Ground Zero a month after…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 9/2009 “The date, September 11, will forever evoke recollections of unimaginable tragedy, of lives callously lost and…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 8/2004 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2006 and the Boston City Paper 9/2006. September 11, 2001 was a death in the family. A…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 9/2003 and the Boston City Paper 9/2007 I never met Shawn Nassaney. He was a good-looking guy, 25 years old, lived in…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter September 2002 We remember where we were when we first heard the news. We remember the anger and pain that resonated through…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter It’s Christmas 2001. Hard to believe, isn’t it? It’s only been three months since September 11. With all that’s happened, many us…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 9/2001 (Note: My editor said that this was the best piece I’d ever written, and ran it on the front page of…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/2001. The anger and pain resonate through our souls, cutting deeper than anything we thought we could feel. We are collectively wounded.…