Political Quotes

“it is a day to honor the memory of the victims of September 11, 2001. The essence of September 11 was and remains apparent to us all. The victims were innocent. They were simply going about their everyday lives--working at the desk, coming into work, answering the telephones, maybe answering an emergency call, checking on the children to make sure they got off to school, traveling on business, or possibly on vacation. All had families who loved them and all had futures yet to be lived. And now there is emptiness, not only for those 3,000 women and men and children affected on that day but for what they could have and would have become if that event had not occurred. There is little one can do to fill the immense void that is created by such a loss. We can remember. We must remember. But even the fondest and most vivid memory is but a whisper. Simply nothing--nothing--can replace a loved one's absence from the very special moments in life and, above all, the simple everyday pleasures. I recall the story of a woman whose husband was killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center Tower One. In the months after September 11, she did what so many of us would understand--she contemplated suicide. She said: When I lost my husband, I had no bottom, no basis to get up in the morning. I knew I was going to do something terrible if I didn't define a reason. Now she is an advocate for other families who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.”