"The moment to spend with a husband who loves me, or a sick friend, or a delicious new grandchild is here and now. Not some time later....The nation learned this lesson all at once that horrible day in September 2001. The pictures stay with us — the fires and falling debris, and, most hauntingly, the faces. Look how young so many of them were, people who thought there would be much more time, a lot of 'later' when they could do all the things they really wanted to do. I grieve for their families — especially for those, like me, who haven't found any trace of the people they loved. But I grieve even more for the people who died that day. They couldn't know what we know now about the precious gift of time." — Cokie Roberts, contributing senior news analyst for NPR News and liberal
9/11 Quote Of The Day: The Gift Of Time
