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2002-09-11

It was my fathers birthday, he would have been 71. The same thing happened on my mothers birthday, November 22, 1963,thirty three years later, on her birthday she too passed away.It's a hell of a way to be reminded of their birth and death days, but I am fortunate to have had them for the time that I did. The families who lost their ANGELS on Sept. 11, 2001 weren't as lucky. I couldn't bring myself to go to the cemetery on Sept. 11,2001, but I did go today, for my father, for our HEROES, for the ANGELS who were taken from us on that horrific day and for all of us who were left behind and who WILL NEVER FORGET.

We must all bear witness to the history of September 11, 2001. We must never forget so that history DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF.

Flags were always a part of our family, especially at the cemetery, but since that fateful day ,the American flag has been represented the dreams that my parents instilled in me as a child and which I hope to instill in my two granddaughters. LONG MAY SHE WAVE.