Never Forget

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Having grown up in Northern New Jersey and as a student at Black River Middle School in 1976, I could look to the east from the front lawn of the school and on clear day I could see the Twin Towers 35 miles away in Manhattan.  I thought that was amazing, they were so large, I was so far away,  I always thought that would be the case, but 25 years later, the view changed.

It’s been seven years since that clear blue sky morning in 2001 when our lives changed and our understanding of just what freedom is came into focus.  I was on my way to a Commonwealth of Massachusetts bridge construction project in Gloucester MA when I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC.  I was surprised that that happened because that’s a no fly zone and that just doesn’t happen by accident.  Then a second…