Hi.
My name is Ryan. I’m 10 and a fifth grade student in California.
I’ve signed up to be one of the bloggers paying tribute to one of the 2,996 victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Already my mom has found a lot of information about Mr. Kuo and his family, including his son, Michael R. Kuo who headed up the Imagine New York foundation. I hope I will be able to write a tribute that will truly honor Mr. Kuo and his family.
Please visit the man who started this year’s Internet tribute, D.C. Roe and visit other blogs that have agreed to write a tribute for the other 2,995 victims.
Written by Ryan L., Edited, Proofed and Posted by K. L.
Best wishes to you, Ryan. I linked the souces I used for my tribute, if you care to visit, you may find something at one of those sites. Several of us have started posting our tributes already so as not to overwhelm the systems on 9/11.
I am very proud of you for taking on this project. You are also free to use the burning candle or dove of peace images I used, if you wish.
Thank you for participating. My heart goes out to all of the families.
Ryan, you will not understand this emotion for 50 or more years,
I am so happy for you, for your attitude towards life, and your early realization that there is more to life….than me me me me.
I am going to check out your tribute, and want to thank you for your effort. What this world needs is more young people with their head screwed on right.
May you be blessed with wisdom and long life.
That make take a little doing for all of us older people,
Ryan, my generation lost track of the goal, with selfish, egotistical and dangerous ways.
I hope the world we have messed up for you kids, well I hope we all can work together to fix the neglected earth.
Catch you later,
John, aka webloafer
Ryan, I’m honored and grateful that you have elected to take the time to honor and remember the people like my father who were killed on September 11. It’s incredible to imagine that there could be even more people like you, who are 3,000 miles and 5 years away from all this, that are taking it upon themselves to make it a personal learning experience.
I was (only) 26 when my dad died, but trust me, as soon as he was gone I felt like I was 10 years old. If you want to know something special about my dad for your tribute, I’ll tell you one amazing thing about him. He was an engineer who designed power plants for big companies like Argo (who makes corn starch, etc.) and Shell (the oil company). He was a brilliant engineer—but I never really knew how talented he was until his memorial service, when his colleagues spoke about how much they counted on him. This was surprising to me because when he was with me and my brothers and sister, even when I was already grown up, he was just focused on being our dad. Now that I’m older and working hard on my own career, I find it so incredible that he could find a way to be 100% committed to his profession and his family and that he didn’t sacrifice one for the other.
I’m going to carry that lesson with me for the rest of my life.
Good luck to you and I’m quite happy to have stumbled upon your blog.
Best,
Michael
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Ryan… thank you for taking the time to devote this blog. I see that my middle brother Mike has posted already and his thoughts are very much in the spirit of my dad. Please let either of us know if you need assistance.
Fred
I surf the web only once around this time of year, specifically to review old articles and comments about my dear brother, Fred Jr. To my surprise and gratitude, I ran across your blog! I know by now you are a year older, and happen to be the same age as my daughter, Hannah – age 11. She commented just this morning about her Uncle Fred and said, “I can hardly remember him, except I’ll never forget his smile and his laugh!” Her observation says it all for me, as I was honored to grow up with him and enjoyed his laughter and innocence as a young man only 2 years apart in age, yet miles apart in humbleness and wisdom. He looked and lived life from a child’s perspective, and came up with answers to his many challenges (at work and home) which were brilliant in their simplicity. One example: We were sitting in a traffic jam together on the Long Island Expressway. He was taking me and some of our friends to Jones beach. He turned and said, “There is absolutely no reason why we should be in a traffic jam if everyone would just drive at the same speed.” I just stared at him. He said, “Really, it doesn’t make any sense to be sitting here like this does it?” Of course, he was right but I never thought about it in the way he did – from a simple, uncluttered perspective!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to share one more golden nugget from my life with a beautiful brother. If you have brothers and/or sisters, keep them close to you and love them with all of your heart. I’m glad to see Mike and Fred above write to you and share the same thoughts and spirit that their father had with me.
George