Thomas Foley: “it is a new day and a new dawn in America, and how lucky I am to be an American citizen. Watching the TV in the morning…”

“it is a new day and a new dawn in America, and how lucky I am to be an American citizen. Watching the TV in the morning is very, very difficult because we see families looking for loved ones and we see people searching for answers and clues to this devastating tragedy. Whoever did this may have taken a bite out of the big apple, but they are rotten to the core for inflicting the damage on innocent people. We will see the opening, hopefully soon, of the financial markets, and we pray people are not only sensible but reasonable and understand that there should be no egregious trading on the backs of this disaster. When the airlines open today, we ask for calm and reasonableness as people approach those who work in our airports. We also ask each and every citizen living in communities throughout this country to take a moment to salute the police officers, the firefighters, the military personnel who don the uniforms of service to this country, to this Nation, and to our communities to protect and provide for us. Oftentimes we are not thankful enough for those who risk their lives because we are simply usually inconvenienced at the red or blue lights we see in our rear-view mirrors. We do not thank them enough until we need them, until we call 911, and then we desperately ask for their help. Society requires us to be bigger and better than that.”