Since this was the first business trip abroad since I changed my job, I now am ready to leave for Japan with a bunch of "omiyages" for my collegues in Tokyo.
Since I was working in the World Trade Center around 1993 through 1994, visiting ground zero give me a special sense of loss, as if I lost my family members.
A kind of feeling that, I heard, parents, especially mothers feel when they lost their kids all of a sudden. Many mothers keep on preparing the meals for the lost kids.