I remember the day it happened vividly!!! I was in NYC the November before and stood at the top of the viewing platform and felt on top of the world. So on 9/11/01 when I went into work and got the call that I HAD to set up the TV/Video sytem for the whole company to watch because 'Something' was happening I was horrified to witness the first scenes as the system kicked in.

My job at the time entailed sorting out o'seas travel for staff members so my department had to try and track down the whereabouts of all our colleagues who were 'in the air' at the time. Thankfully it wasn't long before we established that they were all safe.

Watching the scenes unfold on the TV however had a profound effect on all of us. I was watching as the second plane hit and that instant feeling of both terror and hatred still remains. That feeling quickly changed into one of abject sadness knowing that many people had lost their lives in that instant and also one of total impotence knowing that as an individual I could do nothing. THANK "WHOEVER" FOR THE AMAZING MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT THEIR OWN LIVES AT RISK to try and get as many people out of those towers as they could.

Here in the UK there were photos of one Firefighter (who's name I don't know) going UP while everyone else was (naturally) going DOWN. He was just one of many members of the NYFD who put their lives on the line. It was amazing to read later that week that he had actually survived.

I can't believe that it is 5 years since that dreadful day. I still feel it like it was today.

My heart and thoughts are with everyone touched by this tragedy either by losing loved ones or traumatised by the events in one way or another.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way.....but I also feel some remorse for the perperators of this horrendous crime against mankind. How AWEFUL must their lives be or how weak must they have been to be manipulated by the COWARDLY B*******S who couldn't get in the front line themselves.

At the end of the day though............we must never forget and we have to learn from these events. I hope we do.