[Stardust]

I was at the turn after finishing the first 9 holes at Legendary Run golf course, when we went into the snack shop and came in to see the first tower on 9/11. Watching with not too much more than amazment of how a plane could fly into a building, when bam, the second plane hit. Obviously Golf was no longer important. We watched in amazement as the story developed.

I was in sheer amazement and disbelief. I had just stayed in the Twin Towers Marriott three months prior visiting our office across the street in the World Financial Center, which was also badly damaged as a result of the attack. We had actually had some offices in the Twin Towers, but fortunately those offices had been closed just prior to the attacks.

We actually attempted to go back out on the golf course, but after teeing off on the 11th green, we had to end our day.

Though I did not lose a friend, nor no of anyone who lost their life on that tragic day, I still felt a connection. I had stayed in that Marriott on three other occasions, and in all my visits, I had never taken the trip to the top of the building. I remember walking through the shops on the last evening that I had ever stayed there, standing outside of the bank of elevators that starts the process to get you to the top (it was after hours, so I could not get access to the rooftop), promising myself that I would make the time the NEXT TIME, and go to the top to see the site.

I have been back sense, and there is a reverance and an aura that can only be experienced and not described.

Five weeks after 9/11, I traveled to DC (where I go at least a a half dozen times per year). I frequently stay in the Residence Inn on Army-Navy Boulevard - which looks directly into the Pentagon. However, on this next visit, I saw the huge gaping hole, surrounded by Cranes and tremendously large black tarping. As stated, I go to DC quite frequently, and was just there 2/23-24. It never fails that as soon as I get off the elevator, I make my way to the pciture window that looks out to the Pentagon, and though all is back to pre 9/11. I still visualize that hole - which ultimately takes me back to that day on the golf course.

God Bless.