<div dir="ltr">I am a little uncomfortable with cheering about Osama Bin Laden being dead. Don't get me wrong, I am glad he's gone, glad this sorry chapter in American life is closing, or could be closed soon. It's just that ihis finally being caught doesn't necessarily leave me in a cheerful mood. This past decade has been no bowl of cherries for any of us in the US. Or for our friends around the world. (Neither was the stretch from Nov. 22, 1963 (JFK in Dallas) to April 4, 1968, (MLK, Jr), to two months later June 5/6, (RFK), and the entire Vietnam War era and watching it unfold on the nightly news. As a youngster, it just plain made me nervous.)<div>
<br></div><div>But this morning I was thinking of someone I never met, never knew. And somehow, may never get over. I had to Wiki them tonight to get the names of the family in University Park who died on September 11, totally innocent victims on American Flights 77 out of Dulles Airport, bound for Los Angeles. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 18px; ">They were the Falkenberg/Whittington family - Charles, Zoe, and Dana Falkenberg and Leslie Whittington. All killed when the plane struck the Pentagon. Also aboard was Asia Cottom, an 11-year-old student at Bertie Backus Middle School in NE DC and her teacher heading to LA for a National Geographic Society ecology conference accompanied by two beloved NGS executives, Ann Judge and Joe Ferguson. They are all part of life's tangled web that reminds us that all this crazy stuff happening so far away has tentacles in our backyards and just over the neighbor's fence. Sometimes it's even in our own homes. I won't even start on what's happened since, the sacrifices our military families have endured, the costs, the politics... It just has me thinking ... </span></span></div>
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Yorke Partners<br>Jeffrey@YorkeRents.com<br>301-502-1243<br><br>
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