Hi. Nice of you to stop by. I appreciate it -- don' t think I say that often enough. Nice to see a smiling and friendly face today. 
I wasn't around much -- mostly childcare and parks and such, so I didn't get much of a look at the place. But froim what I can see, there's something missing. 
I can't tell you how much I look forward to the chance to relax here at the end of the day, imagining meals and conversation and a chance to hang aound with some interesting people, letting them know and fearing myself that there is value in pleasant conversation. 
Here's your drink. Of course I remember. Wouldn't be much of an inkeeper if I didn't. And it's important to remember,. Expecially in the last hours of this day. I was in the shower when I heard, when my wife told me that a plane had flown into the towers. Didn't think too much of it untl the second one surged like a shark, and at that moment it felt like the world was much different than it had been. I went to work and found the family room of my model filled with superintendent and subs and anyone who would fit. I remember the chaos and the wondering if anything would ever, really be the same again, and then all of us trying to shimmy a flag pole to get the flags to half staff. My old bosses wife's best freind called her from the 104th floor to say goodbye. 
We owe ourselves our memory of those events that changed things. We need not look back in horror or even grief, but I think it's important to all of us, especially because of what it has meant to our party and our world. And as much as I hate to make this place anything but light and breezy, tonight, I just don't feel it appropriate. So, instead, I just want to ask this,. When it happened, where were you?