Hi E'

Might be just as well you missed the television images thet went with this horror.

As I watched it from the first moments on MSNBC, I was stunned but remote from the tragedy of the event. Even after the second tower was hit my mind was working on who did it and how they would fight the fire and how they might attempt to rescue the people on the upper floors.

When the first tower collapsed, it was like something left my body or like I physically felt the sudden death so many so quick. I never once imagined they would fall.

With the fall of the towers my confidence in the permanency of our country and the future of my children and grandchildren took a hard shot to the gut. I am recovering but as we have repeated so often since last week, nothing will ever be the same.

Shalom,