Septembers

It is increasingly hard to believe that it is 19 years since 9-11 and 18 years since the shootings at Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Another anniversary for Septembers.

Because there is no definitive list of names of those who were in the buildings when the planes struck, there can't be one of those x number of survivors still alive list, like there was for say the sinking of the Titanic. There was no building occupancy list. The world is not going to be able to keep track.

Given that there were very young children in daycare in one of the buildings in front of the towers, there could conceivable still be survivors in the 90 year period after 2001. That's quite a ways off. 

Those that survived will know who they are, or will have been told.

As for the shootings at Empire, there is also no list of those who were on the floor and near the office when the shootings began. I know who they were, but I'm not likely to know where they all are now. Being that is was a Jewish holiday that day, and 8:20 a.m. is early, not everyone was in.

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The dates on the stones let you measure the time
Of the lives that lived in between.
The bracketed years reveal to the current
The joys and the troubles they've seen.

On any given day a person is born
You can record the date of their birth.
And on any given day a person can die
And you can record that they've left this earth.

And the morning we made our dusty descent,
An accomplishment undiminished,
We learned of the others and their bracketed date,
And our own, that remained unfinished.

So it is incredible to believe the end can be met
At the hands of someone we knew.
He put an end to life, he put an end to himself,
But he didn't put an end to you.

Sixteen years. Still true.
No one ever dies
Who lives in hearts
Left behind.

These people left many things well begun.
And on 9/11 and 9/16, these people became memories.

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