Fallen Buildings, Sunken Ships & Missing Loved Ones

This weekend our television has alternated between college football games and documentaries about the horror of 9/11. Where were you on 9/11? many of the special programs seem to ask. I was in my office talking to Dad who was with my Mom visiting my sister in Park City, Utah. I was with him on the telephone when the first tower began to fall. I remember him yelling "holy shit son the tower is falling!" We then both hung up to watch the spectacle. There have been some insightful articles about how 9/11 disrupted our lives and changed our perspective of the world around us. The Connecticut Post published an interesting article "A September Cruise Leads Passenger Home to a Changed City" which is the account of a real estate agent in Connecticut who goes with her husband on a cruise from Southampton when the plane struck the twin towers. The twin towers gone. How is that possible? The towers were a landmark that seemed to always be in the background of every cruise ship photographed in New York harbor. I found such a photo and thought it might be appropriate to add it to this article. But while uploading it, I realized that it shows the H.M.S Britania, which sank off of the coast of South Africa in October 2000. 9/11 to me brought home the fact that all of us are here on planet earth for a limited period of time. Great buildings can fall before our eyes. Magnificent ships can sink out of sight as if they never existed. Loved ones can leave us. But the images of our experiences and the voices of our loved ones remain vivid and distinct today. Photo credit: Chandris Fantasy Cruises via Odinnthor/Virtual Tourist

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