I altered my original website shortly after the attack on the World Trade Towers. Sadly the mpeg no longer seems to work. It was a song performed by my daughter’s Duluth East Choir probably within a stone’s throw of the Towers when her choir toured the East Coast. I took the picture of the group in 1999.
I put my flag up every day for a month afterwards. I gave undue support to the President. I have, I hope, remained vigilant. I take off my damned shoes at every airport.
I didn’t spend all day today on the tenth Anniversary watching the replays. I did, however, tune into the television for the twenty minutes of bagpipers and the Brooklyn Children’s Choir at the flag raising at the Memorial. Sitting on my lap quietly watching with me was my year-and-a-half old Grandson. He joined me in rapt attention perhaps for no other reason than it was pretty novel to see a television turned on at that time of the day. I told him a bit about what he was seeing that was wide of his ability to comprehend. When President Obama read the 46th Psalm he twice repeated: “the God of Jacob is our refuge.” It gave me chills. My little one’s name is Jacob.
