Sometimes the news grabs you and brings back bad memories, today is a good example. They got the bad guy, and he's gone, doesn't bring those who we lost back, ease the painful memories, maybe. But it does bring new meaning to the expression you can run, but you can not hide.
Ten years ago on the day after my birthday (47), the skies got suddenly quiet, a plume of smoke could be seen rising of to the west. The news cracked in the word over the radio and a few frantic calls from crew working within spitting distance to ground zero. I was sent to retrieve a crew working in queens as I drove down the GCP I could see the smoke coming out and suddenly they were gone all gone. As I drove on other drivers were pulling over, women getting out of their cars falling to the ground in uncontrollable sobbing. A sight I never want to see again.
In the aftermath an strange atmosphere of apprehension overtook everyone. Simple sales calls were dreaded with so many missing and cars left at train station parking lots. Never in our history was something like this felt. The events of my lifetime have been something else; Viet Nam, Earth Day, Draft card burning, Woodstock, the Kennedy's, MLK, the list goes on. The old Chinese proverb or curse "may you live in interesting times". Another chapter has closed or has a new one opened? Time will tell!
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