Moving On

Economic recession, a war, a president promising change. What keeps everyone going? Hope, hope that all the problems will resolve, disappear, but the reality is they won’t. The last article I read was a reminder of this. It was about a victims recount of 9/11 and how his normal day turned tragic when he starred into the eyes of a 757 airliner. Brian Birdwell was on his normal schedule work day at the pentagon when the nose of a 757 hit the wall on the E corner of the pentagon. Brian’s body was more then 60 percent burned and his chance of survival less then one percent. Brian restates what he was thinking when the plain hit by expressing that he didn’t know where to go so he collapsed to the floor and waited for “that feeling of the soul departing the body”. Brian is now retired, he owns a charity for burn victims and he constantly visits veterans providing hope that you can never give up and you should always look to the future.

To read this article go to http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47411