Harness your Fear. It can take you to a place of Courage

Like many people, I can remember exactly where I was when Osama Bin Laden sent two planes into Manhattan's twin towers and another into the Pentagon. My world was different from that day forward and tomorrow it will be twenty-one years since I sat stunned and silent as events unfolded.

As I realise that the children of those who lost their lives on that horrendous day would now be adults, some with children of their own, I wonder how their lives unfolded in the wake of such enormous loss. Where are they now and what did they become?

Because the site of the World Trade Centre towers is such a physical reminder, it is easy to overlook the consequences of the fourth hijacked plane. With heroism too great to mention individually, I think of those forty (40) heroes aboard United Airlines flight 93 who, after being informed by phone of the events that were happening, harnessed their fear and rather than allow their hijackers success, courageously attempted to overpower them. Consequently, their plane came down in the Pennsylvania countryside: forty died . Nineteen terrorists also died.

Like the four hundred police and firefighters that perished on that day, I cannot grasp the enormity of having to face the decision to accept certain death in order to save my fellow man. I don't know if I possess that degree of mental and emotional strength and I hope I am never asked to make the choice.

So to those 2, 974 brave souls who lost their lives, tomorrow, the 11th of September 2022, I will remember you and your sacrifices with enormous sadness and great humility and while the words are not enough, "thank you".

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Paintings from the children who lost precious parents in the 9/11 attack

Iron Cross structure found in the ruins of WTC towers

Rebuilding "Ground Zero" 5 yrs on