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The other day I was talking with a young man that is staying with me while he does an internship in computer engineering. I was recalling that after 9/11 all air traffic was grounded for weeks and it delayed the SF (Green Beret) from getting back to America.

He looked at me perplexed. I said, “Surly you remember?” He replied, “No, I was only 3.” So the story was told.

I know Deuteronomy 6 speaks of remembering what God has done for the Israelites in Egypt, but there is wisdom in abundance in His Words. If we don’t remember and teach our children where are we as a civilized Nation?

“To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temple of his God, (my changes in the plural of God).

And for the tender mother who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses his baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus, that wrought the deed of shame?

Remembering:

John Bentley Works
World Trade Center

ACTA EST FABULA
John Bentley Works
October 24, 1964 – September 11, 2001
Rowayton, Connecticut
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Two World Trade Center, 89th Floor

Then out spoke brave Horatius
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods.

In loving Memory from your devoted family,
Pam and Allison
Dad
Dorothy
Tim, Lynn, Owen and Baby Works

Tribute submitted by Pamela Works.

A Love of Books

John B. Works always had his nose in a book. Or books - he usually had three or four going at a time, said his wife, Pamela Block Works. History books. Gold books. Economics books. Philosophy books. Historical fiction. (Dorothy Dunnett and Patrick O’Brian were favorites.) “And lots of junk - ‘Star Trek,’ “ she said.

On his bedside table are “Cryptonomicon,” Neal Stephenson’s novel about making and breaking codes, and Jack D. Schwager’s “New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders.” Mr. Works, 36, had recently become a trader himself; in March, he rejoined the investment firm of Keefe Bruyette, where he had started his career as an analyst.

To house all those books, as well as their 3-year-old, Allison, the Workses were building a house on the site in Rowayton, Conn., where Mr. Works grew up. On weekends this summer, he would climb a ladder to the third floor, with its view of Long Island Sound. That floor was going to be his library, Mrs. Works said, “with a large porch off it, because he always wanted a widow’s walk.”

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on September 30, 2001.

https://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=115458&psl=1