In my responses I told about the time and circumstances that I had taped
a commentary to our family's photo and document album, and how I
went about it.
For almost 40 years my wife and I, and before they left for college, our
children, moved about the United States and the world, working and
living our lives. We had accumulated a fair number of photos and
documents over the years; they were important parts of our family
history.
During those active years, family archives were low priority. During
periods of relative quiet we reminded ourselves to organize our records,
add notes on the reverse sides of photos and important documents, and
file them away in albums. As with most families, my wife had all the
names, dates, places, and the why and how details catalogued and stored
in her mind. We thought we had plenty of time. We did not.
Months after the tragedy, when I was able to focus my thoughts again,
one of my many tasks was to gather the cartons, shoeboxes and
envelopes of photos and documents. I spread them across every
available clear space and tried to make sense of the lot.
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