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1/ Home on Christmas break of knob year at The Citadel I met up with the upperclassman who had given me a ride home (Petra Lovetinska) in NYC, where her parents were.
2/ We met uptown and set out to do touristy things like seeing the top of the Empire State Building - but being young, with lively legs and terrible sense of direction - we way overshot our mark and ended up all the way down by the WTC.
3/ And anyway, we did the whole head-to-the-top thing. And I sprung for the commemorative photos and everything. I'm usually so cheap, no idea why I bought this, but really glad I did.
4/ We had no idea that what would happen here mere months later would shape the lives and careers of nearly everyone Petra and I knew, both in NY/ NJ, at The Citadel, and beyond.
5/ In 2015 I had the privilege of getting to know Captain Billy Burke's family at the inaugural @Tunnel2Towers 1 WTC stair climb in his name.
His story is the stuff of legend and worth your time. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/09/a_moment_of_terror_a_decade_of.html
His story is the stuff of legend and worth your time. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/09/a_moment_of_terror_a_decade_of.html
6/ It would be easy to be haunted but his last words, memorialized on the back of the medal from that event.
A better honor would be to try to live up to them.
Our lives are lived best in service to others.
A better honor would be to try to live up to them.
Our lives are lived best in service to others.
