Today's Encouragement: Honoring 911 - If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, ...

Honoring 911 - If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate. ~ Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl
Editor's note: Read this again, especially in today's context. And I thank our 2001 hospice organizations for the immeasurable ways they supported communities through this uncharted public tragedy that affected us all. Of note, Hospice of Lancaster County (now Hospice & Community Care, Lancaster, PA) supported the families and community of the Shanksville Flight 93 crash through their bereavement director Patti Homan-Anewalt, PhD.  While serving as the founder and director of their Pathways Center for Grief and Loss (and Bereavement section leader for NHPCO's Bereavement Professionals), Dr. Homan-Anewalt was also a disaster mental health specialist with the American Red Cross. Patti spent 2 weeks as a first responder trauma counselor in Shanksville supporting families at the crash site, with them at the morgue, and more through those early experiences and memorials. To my hospice colleague Patti (semi-retired) and to countless others, "Thank you." To the heroes of Flight 93 and other 911 sites, we offer a deeply reflective, profound "Thank you!" Today, may we learn from Sandy Dahl.