I will never forget sitting in my pastors living room and watching in horror as the first tower collapsed. I started pacing the room as if I had to get there and start doing something. Several folks from our church in Boston routinely did business in Manhatten, not to mention that several buddies of mine worked there.

Thank God none of them were downtown when it happened. There were several stories though of friends and parishners being way to close. One friend from church had been in teh tower the day before doing a tour. He had his family were supposed to have waited unti l 9/11 to do the tour, but he had to get back to Boston for work early so they did the tour a day earlier. I guess a lot of us have heard stories like that.

Later that week Dorie and I were flying home to Texas and we were on the second flight out of Boston on American Airlines since the "no-fly" ban was lifted. We flew directly over ground zero and everyone got real quiet as we starred down into the smoke. It was like a meteor had hit Manhatten and left a huge whole.

It is hard to believe that it happened six years ago. We have been to ground zero a couple of times and even then there was little sign of the amazing buildings that once stood there, except for two mammoth I-beams that had fallen down into the shape of a giant cross and for some reason the volunteers and workers had left it admist the reconstruction.

After it was discovered, construction workers, firefighters, police officers and family members began holding weekly Sunday services at the site. The names of fallen police officers and firefighters were also scribbled on the cross, along with the message "God Bless Our Fallen Brothers".

On the radio this monring results from a poll announced that 85% of Americans alive today say that the 9-11 attacks were the single biggest event in their lives.

Check out the current model of the building to replace the twin towers: