Ten years ago today came the horrible sequence
of events that are now known simply as Nine Eleven.
Before then I could fondly recall this day as the
birthday of a love of mine now married, a father
to two young children. A man my own boys
loved. But now his birthday is a day reminiscentÂ
of tragedy, fear, heroism. A sea change for us
the privileged and for the loved ones left behind. Â
A terrible sea change. And where we goÂ
from here remains a mystery.
