Real time

One of the advantages of being retired is the opportunity to see news in real time.  Yesterday, as we sat with our fruit and morning tea we watched the dedication of the 9/11 memorial in N.Y.  It was incredibly moving and BJ and I both said it's a place we would like to visit.  It's hard to believe it's been almost 13 years.  It's one of those events like the Kennedy assassination where one remembers exactly where you were when it happened.  It also made me think that many of the victims' children were just tiny when this happened and perhaps have no memory of their loved ones.  The memorial has last voice recordings of calls made to family and photos of every person who was killed in NY, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon.   It's almost too much to comprehend.  One of the most moving stories was of a young man who always carried a red handkerchief and made repeated trips escorting people out of the building.  He was eventually killed when one of the towers collapsed.  He was only 24 and one of his red handkerchiefs is in the museum. The ceremony really focused on the good of people, not the evil that caused such a catastrophe.  Apparently there are kleenex boxes placed everywhere at the memorial.  We needed our own box watching the dedication in real time.