This was my final view of New York City before 9/11:

               As I gazed across the Hudson from New Jersey for one final view in early autumn, I thought of the hustle & bustle on & below the streets as life pulsated through the stone & steel above. Who would have imagined that this skyline would be no more?
               When the towers fell, I asserted without doubt that the perpetrators' message of hatred had just damned their cause forever.