Waking up each year on this day, it is somber, gut-wrenching and leaves me with a pit in my stomach. Loss of family and friends that just got up that day to go to work. Being on the conference calls with the command center with a coordinated group of companies to initially get emergency supplies into the city. They had no idea what they were facing on that day and I remember someone on the call saying they may need 50,000 body bags (25,000 in each building)....the call went silent for what seemed like an eternity. Fortunately it was not the case, but that was just one example in the early hours.
The country did come together and that was the most uplifting thing that came out of that tragedy. The human kindness, the patriotism, families helping each other. There is a lesson in our history that should be reinforced and reflected upon.
