Remembering 9/11

In all the hustle and bustle of a photographer's life, I could not help but freeze in my tracks at the realization that today is the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and it also gives me pause to remember the Murrah building bombing as well.

We are so busy living our lives and pursuing the dreams that our country grants us the freedom to realize, we sometimes forget to remember those who no longer have that opportunity.

As wedding and portrait photographers, Jamie and I get to see our clients...our friends...living some of the happiest and brightest moments of their lives. This is truly one of life's great honors and quite frankly, it is due to those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom that we have this opportunity.

In this retrospective, I take this time to thank all of our dear friends that we have photographed over the years for choosing to make us a part of their lives. I encourage those who read this, to remember what a great land we live in and those heros, great and small who defend it, and us. To remember those in the World Trade Center, on the aircraft and those brave souls on the ground and also those who lived the nightmare of the OKC bombing...all heros in their own right.

One of the greatest things we can do to honor those people is to live our lives to the fullest. To be honest and forthright in all we do and to be the best we can be in a country that grants the human spirit the opportunity to fly to its greatest potential.

Roy Groat, Jr.