We remember 9/11 like it was yesterday.
We remember walking into our office and watching the beginning/end on a small TV screen and watching grown men cry.
We don't remember the conversations between us that day. What could we have said other than: Oh, my God!
We remember that this was the first time we'd ever seen Marines guarding the White House and the looks on their faces.
We remember watching an American President take the mound at Yankee Stadium. We cheered as loudly as the fans as he threw the perfect strike the country needed.
We remember thinking Toby Keith was the greatest living American songwriter for capturing the anger, fear and pride so many of us felt; even if Peter Jennings didn't like it.
We remember our first and only trip to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, we remember how lonely a place it was. We remember how many bits of shiny metal still remaining on the hollowed ground as we cried our eyes out.
May God bless the passengers and crew of Flight 93 for their courage and valour to defend to the end. Their act of bravery saved countless lives and we will never forget them.
Today we remember the men, women and children who lost their lives; those brave people who gave their lives. And the Heroes that responded to the emergency on 11 September, 2001.
We want to urge that in your September 11 reflections, you will remember the love, the strength, the hope that carried us through and also brings us together as a country.
God Bless America
Freedom Of Speech Staff
