9/11

Watching Larry King’s special tonight on Engine 54, Ladder 4 of the New York Fire Department, which lost all 15 men on duty 6 years ago, Conner asked why we didn’t have a national holiday in honor of all those who died on 9/11.

Suspect he was feeling the same as me. How could I go through my normal routine on the day when so many people lost their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers? When so many fireman gave their lives trying to help others.

Each year on 9/11 I got this hollow feeling that what I do is so insignificant. This is my 4th year blogging since 9/11. Eeach year I begin a post or two and then give up. What can I offer that compares to what others have given and, in the case of our armed services people, continue to give today?

So for tonight, thanks and my prayers to the thousands impacted by the tragedy 6 years ago. A special prayer to the US soldier in Afghanistan who told Anderson Cooper he was in the 7th grade on 9/11.