On the Eve of September 11th…

  
This pile of stones on a larger rock in the middle of the Big Thompson River on the way to Loveland, CO caught my eye… On this evening, I pause to remember… Fourteen years ago I went to sleep with the plan of going to the gym in the morning since we were in between classes at the Air Combat Command Desert Warfare Training Center (Silver Flag Alpha) where I was an instructor… The next morning on the way to the gym NPR had a weird story about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center… Suddenly we were in THREATCON Delta and our lives changed forever… In my mind I place a stone on this cairn in the river and remember…