Toward Danger on Purpose
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of a day many Americans remember vividly. I know exactly where I was when I heard the news of the first tower being hit. I was glued to my TV all day long, wondering what would possess a person to perpetrate the murder of more than 3,000 people. I visited ground zero some months after the attack and was stunned once more by the significance of the event. In a matter of a hours, and over the course of the next days, thousands of people were thrown into their worst nightmare as they received news confirming their worst fears; their loved one had died on 9/11. On 9/10, I had received a phone call that told me about a personal tragedy in someone's life and it occurred to me in the next couple of days after that, that 9/11 was a national tragedy because of 3,000 personal tragedies happening all at once. We shared so many mixed emotions and struggled with our own response and reaction to the experie...