Sep 11 2008
Some Questions Never Get Answered
A Personal Note from Michael: I hope you will excuse the departure from my normal content but I am taking 9/11 off from work as I do every year, and I wanted my readers to understand why.
September 11, 2008 is not just another day to me.
It is an annual reminder of the worst day in my life, a day that no one who was alive then will ever forget.
I lived in New York City on 9/11/01 and watched in numb horror as the tragedy took place before my eyes. When I grabbed my scrubs (I have emergency medical training) and what equipment I did have, I began the trek into hell - the site that the world now knows as Ground Zero.
Before that day I knew it as the World Trade Center where I would stop daily for doughnuts on my way to work.
I lost one of my dearest friends that day, along with more people than I care to think about who were also close acquaintances. The photo in this post shows what I have to remind me of that day. It includes newspapers, my stethoscope, a face mask and the glove of a fireman who gave his life to save others that day.
On that day, the world proclaimed that “We are ALL Americans Now”. I can find no better example of this than when Celine Dion - a Canadian - performed “God Bless America” in the aftermath of that day.
May God continue to bless us all.
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