Comments on: In Memory http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/ In need of a pause. Mon, 10 May 2010 21:48:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisa W. http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 Lisa W. Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:46:52 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3679 <p>That was a great tribute. It was great to meet you this weekend, I'll definitely be around here more often. Hugs from Canada...</p> That was a great tribute. It was great to meet you this weekend, I’ll definitely be around here more often.
Hugs from Canada…

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3678 Anonymous Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:55:20 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3678 By: Richmond http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3677 Richmond Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:14:24 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3677 <p>Beautiful Post and tribute RSM. </p> Beautiful Post and tribute RSM.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3676 Anonymous Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:50:44 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3676 By: Anonymous http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Anonymous Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:50:24 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3675 By: Michele from NYC http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3674 Michele from NYC Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:49:37 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3674 <p>You did a wonderful job honoring someone for whom there is no information. </p> <p>A week prior to 9/11 I was at Windows on the World having a farewell dinner for a colleague. Perhaps my path crossed Isidro's and I never even knew it. </p> <p>I pray that those that know and love him have been able to find solace in their memories of his life. </p> You did a wonderful job honoring someone for whom there is no information.

A week prior to 9/11 I was at Windows on the World having a farewell dinner for a colleague. Perhaps my path crossed Isidro’s and I never even knew it.

I pray that those that know and love him have been able to find solace in their memories of his life.

]]> By: jck http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3673 jck Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:15:43 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3673 <p>Have been checking in on some of the blogs, and the tributes are so well done. Not sure I will make it through all, but the insights into the people who died Sept 11 are very personal and bring the person into three dimensions from the sad number assigned. Thank you for participating.</p> Have been checking in on some of the blogs, and the tributes are so well done. Not sure I will make it through all, but the insights into the people who died Sept 11 are very personal and bring the person into three dimensions from the sad number assigned.
Thank you for participating.

]]> By: Bou http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3672 Bou Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:13:59 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3672 <p>Wonderfully done...</p> Wonderfully done…

]]> By: franscellr@aol.com http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-3671 franscellr@aol.com Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:56:50 +0000 http://blog.whenthesmokeclears.us/2006/09/10/in-memory/#comment-3671 You’re not alone. You might be interested in my column today (Sept. 10) at The Beaumont Enterprise.

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WE SHOULD MOURN OUR LOSSES OF 9/10 MORE THAN 9/11

Commentary by RON FRANSCELL

Tomorrow, America will join in a collective requiem for Sept. 11, 2001, the day our world changed.

But it?Äôs the wrong day to mourn.

For me, it is not the dead of 9/11 who haunt me, although my spirit genuinely aches for them. It is the death of the world I knew on 9/10. Five years ago today, I lived more outside the walls that have suddenly sprung up around me. If that was na?Øve, I was comfortable in my naivete. I miss it.

So it is Sept. 10, 2001, for which I grieve. I want that day back as much as I would like to restore the dead people, the damaged lives and the shattered contentment of the next morning. As we re-convene this national funeral for the fifth time, I choose to remember America as it was on Sept. 10, not what it became on Sept. 11. …

Read the rest of it here

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