If you haven't done so already - please take a moment to reflect on the freedom we enjoy and how those who lost their lives that day were just "doing their thing" - traveling, working, going about their business like any other day. Unexpected human loss must be the worst kind.
I am reminded of how I spend 9/11/01 - I was traveling and actually used Newark Airport where some of the terrorists started out that morning (my travel was from 7:30 am to 8:30 am - so I was actually finished with my air travel just as the first tower was hit!)
But a strange thing happened during the course of the day (I was visiting a client that day).
By late morning, the seriousness of what was happening was well understood - yet one of my business clients - who I overheard - was seemingly "complaining" to someone on the phone that... "aw, they just cancelled my flight to so and so and now I can't go... I'm bummed… we'll have to re-schedule etc, etc."
Imagine the shock I felt - we all were in the middle of a serious sequence of attacks, and someone's worried about their own little world and their cancelled flight later that week!!! Unbelievable!
It reminds me of that scene in the Titanic when a porter shouts "You'll have to pay for that!" to a bunch of passengers who, running for their lives to escape the lower decks, were breaking through a door that held them captive.
Let's never be like these people who can't see the bigger picture of what is going on.
Instead, let's be grateful for every day, and enjoy the freedoms that we have, in part, due to those who sacrificed for us in terrorist attacks, and in all our military efforts.
Til tomorrow,
Kevin
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