I Cannot Get This One Vision Out of My Head…

The 9/11 remembrance ceremonies always make me cry.   I always feel those same emotions I felt back on that Tuesday morning way back when.

There is this thought that has always stuck with me and it is the idea that the first responders were running up the stairs of that building while citizens were running as fast as they could away from the danger.  I that moment when they should have been following their survival instinct they did the exact opposite and ran to help.

And most of them were climbing the stairs to their inevitable death.  They didn’t know they were going to die, but I suspect many of them sensed this event was different and the level of danger must have felt different.

As they climbed the stairs, many on the floors above the impact zone were jumping…