Happy Birthday
Today is my brother’s birthday. He’s 26 years old. Everyone wants to think sad thoughts since it’s Patriot Day and it is kind of sad, but maybe we should be focusing on the good side. Like that it is someone’s birthday today. Maybe it’s not someone you know. Maybe it is. But someone somewhere is celebrating life. We should all be celebrating life. That’s why the people who were heros on September 11, 2001 were being heroic. They wanted us and our children and their children to live the life that we all love. Yes, I remember all the scenes. I remember the phone calls from everyone everywhere asking me if I was okay and if all the loved ones in my life were okay. I didn’t know at first and had to say that. We didn’t know where my father-in-law was. In the army he could have been anywhere. We didn’t know where most of Jason’s family was. Some of them live in NY and others are military just like Jason’s father. It was scary. But more scary was the silence of Sky Harbor. It’s never silent. And even scarier was explaining to my two terrors what was going on. Why it happened. How it happened. Why we were watching it over and over and over again. Finally, I turned it off and wished for a happier day. Today is that happier day. Celebrate life.
And John, Happy 26th Birthday. :birthday: