Zen,

You brought tears to my eyes. But you would have done the exact same thing as the rest of us if this had happened in your back yard. It's just not something that you can turn away from.

Were you at *the* memorial service? I came in on the buses with the family members and airline personnel.

I don't have any newspaper articles, but I did save all the paperwork from everything I was involved with. The recovery was entitled "Operation Persistence" by the military......we were going to get everything from the bottom of the ocean. It was important. Every day the military held briefings for the family members, explaining everything happening and even showing videos of what was under the ocean (making sure not to show body parts in the videos presented to the families). I remember one video.....bits of pieces of the aircraft, with pretty colored little fish swimming so lazily through it all. It seemed such a contrast.

This is the first year we didn't have a public remembrance, as everyone wanted it that way. Did you happen to be back home for the 1st year anniversary? All the family members came back and got together with us downtown. It was very, very emotional.

Enough.