Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
The Sky 1
What About our Children? 5
A Mother's Heart 7
Comfort 17
Even the Children Watched 21
That Day 31
Subtle Changes 41
An Eyeful of Fear 49
Taking Care of Business 51
At Least I Could Do Something About It 53
Grounded 65
Divide or Conquer? 73
Counting Backward Toward Before 79
Making Sense of It 83
That One September Day 85
September 93
Where To? 105
9/11 115
Away from Home 119
Apart 121
Always on My Mind 133
One Happy Island 137
There's No Place Like Home 145
A Mourning in September 151
Reflections 153
The Home of the Brave 155
Catching a Flight 167
A Guilty Memory 173
Shock and After-Shocks 185
Three Reflections 191
Crucible 207
Author Biographies 209
Illustration and Photo Credits 223