In Remembrance of September 11, 2001

This is my invitation to you to join me on Monday, September 11th, in my 5th annual "911 Memorial Party" in my living room at home. It is a date I have been annually requesting off from work to prayerfully remember, contemplate and honor the lives of those that were lost, along with their families, friends, and co-workers five years ago. It is a day to reflect upon the changes in our freedoms we have so long taken for granted in this country. And this year, a day to acknowledge conclusive results of the Mount Sinai Medical Center's study of 16,000 of the 40,000 ground zero rescue and clean-up workers with the "World Trade Center cough." Construction workers, police, firefighters, and other volunteers who worked at the site, in the city morgue, or at a landfill where more than one million tons of trade center debris were hauled. Between September 11th to 13th, 2001, nearly 70 percent ot these workers toiled in the dust and fumes of asbestos, pulverized concrete, mercury, and other toxins that will leave them chronically sick for the rest of their lives.

So, join me this Monday, September 11th. This the only day of the year I take the liberty to remain guiltlessly, un-interruptedly glued to the "tube," to solemnly review and weigh the events, and their subsequent fall-out, from that one day of enormous history occurring during our lifetime....Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.