Man, it's been six years. I still remember that morning very clearly. I had passed out on the futon in my dorm room at Hinton James the night before - I was skipping that morning's intermediate organic chem class, when I woke up to CNN on the TV. I didn't think it was such a big deal at first - a plane crashed into a building. Out of the ordinary and tragic, but nothing historical. Then as the events unfolded, a feeling of astonishment took over.

What's sadder than the tragedy of the deaths of 9/11 is how little progress we've seem to have made ...