Well, I’m going to the Mass I reserved for my dear friend and 911 victim, in about a half hourl
Strange, I guess. I was just out wrapping things up in the garden last night and, the wind being just right, I heard the 10 PM Retreat, ‘Taps’. I stopped and faced the music from Base and dropped everything else. It takes less than a minute.
I never forget.
I lost 4 people I used to work with. My wife’s cousin lost her husband. My neighbor was late for a job interview and stopped for a smoke across the street when the first plane hot the floor he was supposed to be on. I was in Roseland NJ working at a new job. A few months earlier I had been laid off from a job across the street from the towers.
I was on FR getting updates, sent all my employees home and called my wife. I sat in my office by myself until the second tower fell. I packed myself up and went to my sisters house since all bridges back to home were closed. When I finally got to my sisters I saw everything in replays while I watched the smoke rise on the horizon. Two days later I made it home and hugged my wife and kids.