September 11, 2008

Well today the United States of America unites together as we remember the terrible day of September 11, 2001. I remember exactly the location I was when I seen the terrible events unfolding on the television set. I was at home in our one bedroom apartment calling Ken at work and telling him what was happening. I think that most of the world was probably on the phone that day just checking up on their loved ones everywhere they were. I was looking online and I was remembering everyone that died on that day whether in the towers itself for the brave men and women trying to help the other out. I found this great web site that shows a little about all the victims of this day. I am going to share the link so if you are interested here is it. I was reading some of their stories and I was really touched by this one.

Christopher C. Amoroso

A Letter to Sophia RoseThe other night, after Sophia Rose Amoroso had her bath, she looked at her tiny hands, wrinkled from the bath water, and told her mother, Jaime, "I have Daddy's fingers."Her father, Christopher C. Amoroso, used to tell his wife that two of his favorite things in the world were taking their 19-month-old baby for a walk, and bathing her, and he used to wiggle his wrinkly fingers at Sophia Rose.The baby is too young to understand that her father, 29, a Port Authority police officer, died when he went back into the World Trade Center's north tower after leading a group of people to safety. She will not remember the thousands of people, including hundreds of police officers, who spilled out of Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Staten Island for his memorial service.But she will always have the letter he wrote her when she was 10 weeks old: "Sometimes it makes me cry, as I am overwhelmed by the joy I've been given by you and your mother. I want you to know that I consider myself the luckiest man to ever walk the face of this earth. If anything were to happen to me, I could honestly say I've known true love and happiness in my life. I've known that because of your mother and now you."

You can find his tribute on page 3. As well as many other tributes to these brave men and women who lost their precious lives on this day.