Somehow, perhaps since I work in the "media", Bin Laden's death really hadn't brought me back to the memories of 9/11 until I read Marathon Man's sensitive post. I met MM over the weekend at FTU and we had a few interesting conversations... you never mentioned your personal connection to 9/11, but why would you have? It's not something easily dropped into a conversation.

My company lost a work colleague, at the TV transmitter site near the roof of the North Tower. His funeral the next week on Staten Island was incredibly sad. I'll also never forget all the shell-shocked looking people plodding along walking North in Manhattan, hours after the towers came down.

My best friend was involved in the -first- World Trade Center attack, in 1993. He had to walk down 75 stories or so to get out of the building. Sadly, he died 4 years ago anyway, of natural, if untimely, causes.

For 10 years, while our forces and agencies searched and searched for Bin Laden, many said "You know, when we finally get him, it probably won't really change anything." Maybe, maybe not.