Welcome September 9, 2002 Issue

One year after: Prayerful hope

Bill Dawley

Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Towers last September, I wrote a column that appeared in this space. I talked about attending a conference in Manhattan, stepping out of my hotel room to go down to breakfast, and seeing a newspaper at my door warning of another impending terrorist act.

Fortunately, that attack never came. And I'm sure most of us in the United States are praying that another incident like 9/11 or the attack on the Pentagon or the plane that went down in a field in Pennsylvania won't ever happen again.

On the surface, it seems that life in the US has pretty much returned to normal. But every now and then, a glance upward reveals a plane overhead, heading out of an airport on a beautiful blue-sky day, and that image prompts that niggling little thought that causes a twinge in the pit of the stomach: "Will it happen again? When?"

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