Thank you for your very well written and moving piece commemorating the horrific events of 9/11. We were living in Arizona at the time of the disaster and I was cleaning up the dishes after breakfast with the television on - I watched as the second plane hit the towers. Having just moved from North Jersey where we had a view of the towers from our upstairs bedroom I was stricken with such grief and fear. That moment will always be ingrained in my mind as will be the assassination of President Kennedy even though I was only in second grade at that time. After 9/11, our family did not get on a flight until December - a SWA flight from Phoenix to Las Vegas and I remember that the airport was a ghost town and the flight was almost empty. Our country did recover from the terrorist attack but it did so with hard work and brave leadership. We, as a nation, must never forget - yes, we move forward but always remembering that day lest history repeats itself.
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