20 Years: A Haunting Image

     It's hard to believe it's been twenty years. I still vividly remember that morning. The devastation, the loss, the emotion. And all so close to home. The first few hours we sat and watched as image after image ran across our TV. We prayed. We cried. We hoped for more survivors until their was no hope left.

     In the following weeks more images. More emotions. This one ran on the front page of our newspaper - and scores of others across the nation.

     A heart-wrenching image. Firefighter Chris Fields cradling little Baylee Almon...... one of 19 children killed in the attack that day. For the first time, I realized how much can be portrayed in one image. How one picture can relate so many emotions - tell a whole story. Sometimes the stories we tell in our images are ones we'd rather not see..... not experience. But they still happen.

     I honor all the first responders who worked so tirelessly. I remember all those who lost loved ones. I pray it never happens again.