I am English and was in London on that day. I thought it was Armageddon and that we would be struck too. It was such a relief to see that the world went on, inspired by the courage of the bereaved who lost their loved ones on that terrible day.

What Amy has written about enjoying the moment, I wholeheartedly endorse. What she said about forgiveness, I know to be true.

My ex-husband cheated on me with two women before leaving me just over a year ago. I found it in my heart to forgive him last week and have now started regaining lost weight, having dropped to 7 stone.

The really touching thing is that he cried and said that he didn’t ever think he could forgive himself.

To all women out there who grieve, hurt, are alone or have life issues which trouble them, let the remembrance of 9/11 bring them peace and guidance.

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As for 9/11, I learned absolutely nothing I didn’t know before 9/11. In fact, I only visited the World Trade Center once (a blind date took me) and I spent the entire time trying to get management to explain to me why they were risking peoples’ lives by locking off any escape to the roof top. I also asked why they had built such a fire trap and why history hadn’t taught them that interior fire escapes and sprinklers weren’t enough in buildings that high. I’d also like to know why they’re rebuilding the same dangerous way — again creating a tragedy waiting to happen.

Also, don’t assume people have family members, a community, a church, a job, or close friends they can grieve with. At one point in my life, through no fault of my own, I didn’t. Sometimes all one can do is relate to God.

Lastly, I was touched by the little boy born after his father’s death on 9/11 who told his mother that until a few months ago his father had been “visiting” him. I didn’t grow up believing in this (and was agnostic), but after my fiance’s death — he took turns visiting me and his son and his ex-wife. He visited so consistantly that many months later, when I sat down with his ex-wife, we started reconstructing what he did right after his death, the next day, etc. We were amazed at how our accounts dovetailed (because he sometimes told us what he was doing the day before when he wasn’t around — although didn’t say he was visiting both of us). He also seems to have teleported an object right after death — how else do I explain that when I asked him to prove he was real (and not just my grieving imagination), that he was able within one minute to make part of a thermostat on the office wall suddenly jump across my path as I walked down a hallway. Others saw this event and couldn’t explain it. Two hours later I told him that didn’t prove anything. Make sure this physical proof was something I couldn’t ignore. A minute later my purse strap broke and I tripped over the purse (the purse was a gift I’d forgotten he gave me). Again, it was a heavy leather strap attached with strong metal — inexplicable that it broke.

Also, unbelieveable as this email might sound — my fiance was a Major in Special Forces when he was killed. Thus I was no stranger to the fact that terrorist events do occur from time to time in this country and simply get passed off as something else. It particularly annoys me that the govt. insists on invading our privacy when we board planes — as most planes are not brought down by something aboard the plane (but are often brought down with ground to air missles and/or hand held launchers).