Ten years ago today we witnessed extraordinary bravery and heroism by people who would have told you they were neither brave nor heroic. What better way to honor their lives than to live our own with greater courage.
I remember watching a young woman, ashen faced, on my television in the hours after the twin towers collapsed. She was in Manhattan and was searching desperately for her fiance. He worked on the eighty-something floor of the World Trade Center. They were getting married later that month. She had been walking non-stop for six or seven hours, from hospital to hospital trying to find him. She held a placard up to the camera with a picture of him with his name underneath and her cell phone. She pleaded for anyone who had seen him to contact her. She wasn’t crying. She looked too shocked to cry. She just said she was keeping faith that he would be found alive and that she would not stop her search until she found him.
Today as millions commemorate the tenth anniversary of the devastating attacks on America, there is much to reflect on. Just as none of us could ever imagined the events of that day, none of us could know how history would unfold in the decade to follow.
Amidst all the lessons and remembrances, I believe one of the most important things we should all do today is to reflect on [Read more…]