Author's Comments:
(September 15, 2001)

I was really moved by these pictures and inspired to pass them on.
 I would also like to add some of my own thoughts that I had after these events.  

It's difficult for me to think about the reason the people that did this might have had.  I think it's difficult because just talking about it seems to imply that there could be a reason that would make sense to me.  We have to ask ourselves, do we really even want to know, or do we just want to be mad?  
If I want to know, then I will have to listen to them.

I stand for the simple idea that listening is not giving in to something - it is giving up something.  It is giving up my dominance over trying to control what you think; it is giving up my ignorance in believing that I know how to make you listen; it is giving up my arrogance that I think I not only know who you are, but know who you should be.

- Cody Matteucci (September 15, 2001)