On this day I would like to honor and thank those courageous and dedicated men and women of our Armed Forces, who continue to give of themselves for love of their family and country. You may count amongst your fallen brothers my colleague, friend and mentor, Rick Rescorla.
From the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center I immediately thought of Rick's words and predictions. As a seasoned soldier, and one of the men who was featured in both the book and the movie We Were Soldiers, he knew our enemies very well and spoke out of our need for preparedness for many years prior to 9/11.
My heartfelt thanks to the National Review and the Mudville Gazette for honoring such a wonderful friend and mentor by sharing his biography with the world.
For a blogosphere round-up of the best postings on this day visit Winds of Change. There you will find everything from the touching to the humorous and the heartfelt.
For those of you who have written to ask why I've never shared my story about that day, I answer, it is too graphic and powerful a story to have out there.
The first time I shared it was with a well-seasoned Army Captain, who in turn shared it with his men under his command. I was told by him that it brought him and his men to sobbing tears. It truly altered them forever.
It is a very heavy emotional story that burdens the soul and I don't wish to burden anyone else with it. In the last year I have been moving from death to the living. I wish to continue in that way and not look towards the past.
And so today I honor those that live without forgetting those that died.
Posted by Michele at September 11, 2004 08:46 AMMichele - just wanted to say that you, especially, are in my thoughts today :-)
Posted by: Harvey at September 11, 2004 11:06 AM