The Cavalier Daily Alumni Association has many members living and working in the New York City area, as well as in Washington, DC. Fortunately, to the best of our knowledge, we did not lose anyone on Sept. 11, though at least one CDAA member, Vice President Greg Trevor, was working at the World Trade Center at the time of the attack. However, the attacks on New York and Washington have touched us all. If you would like to tell your story or share thoughts about the attacks, a special forum has been established on the CDAA website at www.cdalumni.org. Will Morton, author of the articles on this page and a resident of Brooklyn, tells how his life has changed since Sept. 11.

Using my life as example, the small amount of change that has occurred is probably what faces all of us in N.Y.C.:

My commute is up to 30 minutes longer because the New York City subway station and then the PATH station (train to N.J.) I used to take in the World Trade Center every day were flattened. A big inconvenience, but at least I’m alive to do it.

I’m more emotional at times, yet sometimes I just feel dead.

I haven’t missed a Sunday church service since.

I’m checking on my friends more; they’re checking on me.

My wife and I have changed our priorities and are thinking more about what we really want in life.

I was in Providence, R.I., recently for a wedding, and it was as if the attack had never happened. Much of the rest of the country has moved on.

In New York, however, it just won’t go away. Yesterday, for example, I could smell burning WTC wreckage at my office across the river in Jersey City—five weeks later.

It’s too depressing to think of how life has changed. A T-shirt that has popped up recently took the familiar "I Love New York" design with the big red heart and placed under it the words "More Than Ever."