New Yorkers ...........you can call us a clan, call us a network, call us a family.  Whatever you call us, whoever you are or were, you need one........a family. And as strange as it may sound, even through the eyes of us tough New Yorkers, we were and are a family.  One of my friends from the West Coast told me that because of the Twin Tower explosion and the death that occurred, “we are all New Yorkers now”.

The Big Apple was always a place of excitement, Broadway shows, the stock market, Rockefeller Plaza, political big-wigs, newsworthy events, and just plain crazy things that happen, like people hang-gliding off the Empire State Building, or the spectacular 26 mile marathon through the streets of the five boroughs that make up our marvelous city.  We never cease to move......day and night “we are the city that never sleeps.”

Where else could you get a hot bagel and an Orange Julius at four in the morning, or watch the sunrise from Battery Park? Ride the Staten Island Ferry for free all the way to Staten Island, or just sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons?  There is a law of physics that states that an object will stay in constant motion until affected by an outside force.  That force from the outside came on the morning of

September 11^th and changed our New York, your New York and my New York... The United States and the world forever.

Just as the tornado struck Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and spun her world upside down, so did the World Trade Center devastation with the two plane crashes and the collapse of the towers spun our world. People watched in disbelief. “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”, and it did. 

It was totally without comprehension.  The planes so full of volatile fuel that ignited upon impact, scorching the building with temperatures in excess of 2000 degrees. Buildings mangled, flying glass, people screaming, smoke, debris, devastation. Nothing like this has happened since December 7^th, 1941, except that over 5,000 people were killed or missing............... there was sheer pandemonium. The clouds of choking dusts were everywhere.  Shattered electrical wires danced on the floors and on the streets sending sparks in the air.  Fires, screams, people crying, people praying..........but most of all people helping each other.

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