Remembering...

[Carolann R]

As a usual part of human nature, we tend to become complacent after
large incidents occur in our lives...we go on - that's our job.

Today is a day that will remain in our history to mark an event of
catastrophic proportions. My intention is not to linger there in
that place of disbelief or fear, but to pay homage to innocents who
were not spared the dark and relentless hand of senseless and ill-
targeted hate.

I was working for an airline that day in Quality Management. It was
my job to take the calls coming in from scared family members and
friends and to reassure them in the face of something we had no
experience with. Nothing could prepare us for what happened on
9/11/2001.

I got a call from a family member of a police officer in New York
City...later President Bush would hold the Badge of this lost hero
up to the cameras in a news conference.

I don't think to wallow in fear of the unknown is a good thing, but
certainly to remember those lives and the lives of those who were in
some way attached to them is a small price we can all afford.

Thanks for letting me vent. I hope I did not offend. Mahalo.



Carrie

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater." Bono
http://www.hellophoenix.com/art/dreamhawaii.Cfm