Never forget...

It's been said that people will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when certain, major events occur.

People can tell you what they were doing when JFK was shot, when Princess Diana was killed, and I know where I was when 9/11 happened.

I can still remember one of my co-workers rushing in to say that the World Trade Center had just been hit by a plane. I was packing up my laptop to leave for a conference and I thought she was horribly mistaken. It was only 2 hours later, sitting on a train heading for Munich, that I learned that the was right.

Six years later the feelings of complete and utter sadness still overtake me on the anniversary of this tragedy. It's like I am reliving the feelings of being cut off from my family in the US for hours by busy trans-Atlantic phone lines...the shock at hearing the flights to the US from Frankfurt's airport had been suspended until further notice...and fearing the worst for my family that lived in NYC.

Then I am hit with the realization that I am lucky not to have lost any immediate family and then imagine what it must be like to be a relative of one of the victims today.

My prayers and thoughts go out to the victims and survivors of 9/11. More so my prayers are also with the troops who are fighting a mis-guided war yet they continue to bravely serve and some have made the ultimate sacrifice. I thank all of you for fighting for the privilege to live free.

We should never forget.