rest in peace and know how very much we will also love you. another written from parents to a son who had been a firefighter. you are our shining star in everything we did. love mom and dad. how do you report on a story like that without being crushed by it? >> you know, it is so finney. i don't remember that as well as -- well, obviously i've been refreshed by it now. but what i do remember, i remember that he went -- it was around the time of the u.n. general assembly. >> yeah, november 12th. >> right, the president stopped there first and it was very haunting. obviously i just spent some time reading those remembrances. you know, a lot of -- i do remember -- here is what i remember. september 14th i was on my first flight on air force one ever, was up to ground zero with president bush. remember, that was that first flight, he went up on a friday after 9/11 and we -- we had fighter jets escorting air force