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behind her.
    “ Katherine, you aren’t thinking
clearly, come home... ”
    Katherine ignored them. “What do I
have to do to make a statement so it will be aired?”
    The cameraman and a woman from the
nightly news looked at each other then back at
Katherine.
    “ What would you like to say Mrs.
MacNamara?”
    Katherine watched as the cameraman
got her into focus. Then counted down three, two, one and pointed
at her.
    “ My name is Katherine MacNamara. I
am a widow, became a widow on September 11 th . My
husband, John MacNamara, is not coming home anymore. He left
children without a father, a wife without her husband.”
    Waving his helmet that she had
brought with her, “This is all I have left of him from his last day
on earth. He died to save lives. I don’t know why this horrific act
was done but I do know he and those who were attacked in the two
towers, the victims on the planes, the field in Pennsylvania and
the Pentagon, they died heroes. My husband was a hero. I ask that
whoever was responsible to come see me. Come. I want to ask you if
you feel good about what you did. Then I want to put a gun to your
fucking head... ”
    “ Katherine!” Her father pulled her
away. “No Katherine! You can’t be saying that.”
    Katherine pulled away from her
beloved father. “I can’t say that?” She screamed “But they can take
over planes, kill all of those innocent people on the planes and
buildings? But I can’t say what I want?” She turned to the camera.
“I have a right to say what I want... after all, I just lost my
best friend, the father of my children. I’m an American, and I was
attacked. I want to have the chance to confront and kill, if at all
possible, whomever was in on this cowardly act. I invite you, one
on one... I may be a woman but you just pissed off the wrong woman.
You have taken from me what was mine... My husband, my friend, my
lover... ”
    She screamed and cried as her
family led her away to the waiting limo.
    That night on the nightly news the
funeral of John MacNamara was aired. Also aired was Katherine’s
tirade against those who were responsible. Some said it never
should have been aired. Others said it needed to be said. Calls
from servicemen said they would do what they could for her. Emails
arrived to the news station, supporting her. It was like a call to
arms or Remember the Alamo...
    There were others who viewed the
newscast. They sat in a smoke filled room in a Middle Eastern
Country. They talked amongst themselves. One in particular, his
voice rose above the others.
    “ The infidel whore will regret
saying what she said. Who is she to say such things? She will meet
us when she forgets her pretty speech; when she is all alone. Then
I, or one of us, will go and dispatch her to wherever her husband
is. She will no longer mourn her mighty and brave husband. She will
be with him.”
    All sat talking and smoking. Some
broke off into small groups. Most agreed that they were far too
busy to worry about that woman. One sat there playing the news over
and over again. An evil smile spread on his face. “Yes, someday we
will meet and then you will regret the pretty words you said,” he
whispered to himself.

Chapter 1
Nine years later…
    Katherine MacNamara pulled her SUV
up to the gate of her Grannie’s old summer home.
    “ Mom, do you want me to open the
gate?”
    Katherine looked in the rear view
mirror at her son John. “Yes, if you want to... since I don’t want
to walk all of our luggage through this down pour any more then I
have to.”
    Katherine watched as her little
John ran to the gate, opened it wide and ran on ahead. He would be
soaked. She’d have to get him into dry clothes right away, that was
for sure.
    Of all days to move, it had to pour
like this. Well, it was fitting for how she felt. Nine years ago
her world, everyone’s world, had been turned upside down when 9/11
happened. Every year on that day, it poured like the heavens were
mourning with her. She was