Today I received a number of messages from caring friends and family. I ignored all of them. While I appreciated the thoughts, I just wanted to forget and pretend it was like any other Sunday. I knew the day was coming up, and felt a bit torn by not being in NYC for the significant anniversary and for not being able to see the completion of the memorials after watching the big hole in the ground for years from our offices.
There were significant delays in the rebuilding of the trade centers and the memorials. Too many cooks in the kitchen with the same goal, too focused on their own agendas without listening to others or the voices of those they were trying so hard to remember. NYC changed in the aftermath. People were more tolerant, patient and helpful, which was witnessed when we had the blackout of 2003.
Whether the Holocaust or 9/11, such significant events would be wasted and the lives lost would have been for naught if we, as a global society, did not learn from it. There are a lot of unanswered questions. I always thought that it was odd that if the hijackers did such copious research that they were not aware that New Yorkers do not typically get into work until after 9 am. It is time that we dare to get to the truth.
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