Tomorrow will be a year. One year ago tomorrow, the United States was attacked by terrorists. A beautiful fall morning in New York City turned dark and deadly at 8:45 am when the first of two jumbo jets crashed into the World Trade Center. Shortly thereafter, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, and then Flight 93 crashed in a field somewhere in Pennslyvania. We would only find out later, that it was the passengers who prevented that plane from reaching Washington DC.

The video of those planes crashing into the World Trade Center still haunt me. I used to work directly across the street in the World Financial Center (same building as the Wall Street Journal) at a commodities trading firm. I could see those towers from my desk. My wife and I would travel into the city as much as possible. We often took the ferry from Hoboken, and those towers would never fail to direct our attention their way as we crossed over the Hudson. I used to love making photographs of the towers from Liberty State Park. If you were there at the right time, you could get a shot with the setting sun reflecting off the towers. I photographed them from the Brooklyn side, as well as from the observation deck of the Empire State Building.

The towers gave the NYC skyline an aura of strength. All of that was taken away last year along with the lives of over 2800 people. So tomorrow, while the networks are doing their best to remain somber and people are prattling on about 'reflection', I will watch those videos again, and allow that initial anger to come back. That's right. Anger. There's nothing wrong with it. We should be angry. Angry that innocent people, including children were senselessly murdered by a group of fundamentalist scumbags. Angry that so many firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers had to die for the same reason. Angry that some people have had to move out of the city because of the fear they have of another attack. Angry that Daniel Pearl was murdered in the aftermath because he was an American and a Jew. Angry that immediately following that awful day we had to hear a bunch of losers basically telling us the United States got what it deserved.

The anger still has to be there, because without it, we become complacent. And when we become complacent we become vulnerable. We cannot allow something so terrible as September 11 to happen again. We have to be reminded of it, and while it may be grim, it is necessary.

Click here to see the video from that fateful day.