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I remember Chief and I were still in Vietnam in September 11, 2001. We had just come home from work. And browsing through the cable network stations, the attacks had filled the screens of all news stations like CNN and BBC. We stayed glued to CNN all night long, watching the heroism and horror of what was happening in the United States.

Last January 2004, when Chief and I made our first trip to the East Coast, we did visit "ground zero" and said a prayer for all the families who those who died during 9/11. By that time, ground zero had been cordoned off by a steel fence but one could still see the ground emptied by the attacks.

Let us say a quiet prayer for the 2,974 persons whose physical presence on this earth was erased by the terrorist attacks in the United States six years ago.

Illustrations from http://www.artwing.com/september11.htm