Goodbye

A billion words have expressed the horror of this stunning event and its effect on a changing world.

I am left with this picture. One second later, and everything known and believed and hoped for disintegrated in a fireball near the top of 1 World Trade Center.

To those monolithic towers of global commerce, to those people inside about to give their lives tragically, to those policemen and firemen showing up for work on an impossibly sunny Tuesday, and to those all over the country who, like me, were just waking up and about to turn on their televisions and start their day, I say goodbye.

Goodbye and nevermore.