september 11

[DeltAlum]

How COULD we forget?

It's been about a year and a half since I was last in New York. I used to get there every month or so in a previous job. The previous company has a facility at 17 Battery Place, just down the street from WTC, and had a condo in Battery Park City where I stayed a number of times. When the condo was busy, we sometimes stayed at the Marriott at WTC.

I was supposed to go back to the city two weeks after 9-11, but the clients I was going to call on cancelled (CBS and NBC) for obvious reasons.

On our last trip there the ticket booth at Times Square was so crowded that we went out to WTC and bought show tickets there in the lobby.

The people of New York have demonstrated to us in no uncertain terms what being an American is all about. What bravery. What determination. All mixed in with the grief and terror. How will we ever see the letters NYPD and FDNY again without remembering the courage, the sacrafice and the anguish?

I really want to get back because it is such a great city, but I can't help wondering how I will react on the way into Manhattan from LaGuardia when I look at the skyline...