September 11

Boys,

There was a world before September 11 2001, and there is a world after, but the two are completely different.  Both of you will grow up in the years after.  Your Mom and I barely knew each other on that day, but we like all the others who witnessed it, have our own stories.
Where we were and what we were doing. Our thoughts and feelings and utter disbelief at what was unfolding around us.  The entire country stood frozen with fear for the next several days and I often wonder if that's how my grandparents and parents generation felt when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
I still have a very difficult time watching the video's of the two planes crashing into the two World Trade center buildings.  Even fourteen years later the emotion is just as raw and painful as it was the day it happened.