please take care of this book

How ironic that shortly after receiving an image from the memorial stone that commemorates those killed in New York in the September 11th disaster, a reader of 'please take care of this book' has sent this photograph from Spain. Not as iconic as the World Trade Centre has become, but perhaps more moving, Victor Ochoa's imposing sculpture in Cartagena is dedicated to all those affected by the horrors of terrorism. Standing at 5 metres high and weighing two tons, Ochoa's emoti

Few can underestimate the effect that the tragedy that evolved seven years ago today in New York had across the globe, so how appropriate that a reader sent in these photographs. There has been so much written about those dreadful images that flew around the world as aircraft flew into the Twin Towers that I am not going to add many more. Everyone is aware of the destabilisation that occurred as a result of this atrocity and the thousands of innocent lives that have been lost