I can only watch so much of the 9/11 memorial services on television, only read so much on the web, in the newspapers. I am quite easily - too easily, emotionally overwhelmed by the sadness; the tremendous cost in lives, lives that were precious, lives that are missed every day since.

I still cry on seeing Memorial Day and Veteran's Day ceremonies - all those lives, again: D-Day, Armistice Day, Pearl Harbor Day, and on and on - and I wasn't even born when the events they mark took...