She had always been afraid of heights.

Finally she decided that today, on her birthday, she would conquer her fear and go to the top of the tallest building she knew.

Looking out at the extraordinary view she knew this would always be a date to remember.

September 11, 2001.

Jonathan Cook is a one-time farmer, pharmacologist, stand-in head of an EU delegation, international training advisor, and current language school director. Throughout, he has retained an abiding interest in anything as long as it is well written…