Today marks the 7th anniversary of the horrific events of September 11, 2001.
A month or two after the tragedy, a widow of one of the NY Firefighters e-mailed me to ask how to store cigars for the long term. She had seen a web page about humidors I had online at the time and said her husband was an avid cigar smoker. She had decided to keep his cigars and try to store them for the long term to give to their young son. She was pregnant with the couple's third child. A child who has never got to know a father. A father who was a hero trying to save lives in the World Trade Center when it collapsed. The man was only 38 years old.
Today, I will remember a man I never met, yet am somehow connected via the magic of the cigar - Gerald Atwood
So, as we go about our busy day and our complicated lives, take a moment today to reflect on our fallen.
May they all rest in peace.
We will not forget.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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