In 2001 I worked in deceased accounts at what was then Chase Manhattan Bank. There were four of us that got assigned to handle all the 9/11 accounts. The death certificates started coming in about the beginning of November 2001. The first one to come across my desk was a NYC firefighter. At one point I counted over 600 death certificates on my desk that all said the same thing "Manner of death: homicide. Cause of death: physical injuries; body not found." I had a death certificate for an elderly passenger on Flight 93 that listed the cause of death as "Fragmentation blunt force trauma." Processing the accounts of all the victims was a process of reliving that day every day for months. While the war is far from over, a certain amount of justice has been delivered for those people and their families and I will take quiet satisfaction in that.
Thank you to all the members of our armed services and intelligence agencies. Everyone from the guy in the recruiting office in a neighborhood strip mall to the cooks on the Navy ships in the Arabian see, to the maintainence crews for the aircraft and the analysts and translators in their cubicles at Langley to the guys that kicked in the door. They all stepped up and answered the call and did what their country asked of them. This is a victory for all of them.
And on a humorous note, I read this on a political humor blog and had to share it:
"If I were an ammo manufacturer, I’d be rushing to check if my bullets were used to kill Osama, because that would make a great ad campaign."
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Originally Posted by ToddG
