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I'm on the west coast, so I was in bed. But the co I work for is a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, so... I won't go into it, I lived it and...
Well today--9/11/02 I can think of no better place to be today than at the office. We lost over 700 employees in the WTC attacks. The NY offices are closed today, and attendance for us in LA was optional, but you know what? ALL of us are here.
I had 2 choices--be at home and watch the coverage and bawl, or be with the people I was with that day--when we heard the stories breaking when we all first woke up one year ago, we all ran to the office in whatever disheveled state we were in and sat in the conference room and watched it all together. We've all spent the past year watching our company grieve and rebuild. No one understands the particularly emotional spots we are all in better than each other, that is why I wanted to be at work with my coworkers today.
When I walked out of my apt this morning, I saw six fighter jets flying overhead trailing six American flags in their wake. It was so beautiful and yes, it made me cry.
But there are no truer words than those of the Pledge of Alliegiance: "One nation, Under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all" and of the Star Spangled Banner: "Oh Say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave... O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave..."
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