Posted by
James Bell on Sunday, September 10, 2006 4:47:15 AM
This is the fifth anniversary of the tragic day, September 11, 2001, on which Islamic fanatics sought to strike a blow to the American way of life. Three thousand lives were cut short by that strike. Fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives. Some died while others were left to mourn. On this anniversary, I would like to honor and remember a single victim,
IOURI A. MOUCHINSKI .
Iouri Mouchinski was 55 years old. He was chasing a dream of starting his own engineering business, living to be 100, and a country home where he could keep bees and care for his grandchildren. He was a successful civil engineer in the Ukraine but left this position in 1994 to come to America and start an engineering business. At the time, he had four employees on board. He was dedicated to the success of the business by working daily and on weekends.
According to Mr. Mouchinski's daughter Iryna Ushakova, he had the good health and vigor of a 30-year-old. He was a student of Eastern philosophy and believed in the unity of the soul, body , and the world around him. Mrs. Ushakova stated that her father often fasted to cleanse himself.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Mr. Mouchinski was at the World Trade Center, not to because he worked there, but because he was picking up a check from someone he had done work for through his business.
Mr. Mouchinkski is survived by his daughter Iryna, his grandchildren , and his wife, Natalia Muchinska. She called her husband, "my precious." She stated in a stanza of a poem she wrote to him:
I want to continue
Our life
And keep you always
In my consciousness!
In memorium, I salute Iouri A. Mouchinski, this week of September 11, 2006. The sadness and the shock of that day is as fresh for me now as it was five years ago. The disbelief that that such evil can exist in men. Evil that took an unsuspecting man from his life and his family. My thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Mouchinski's family. May God bless them and our great nation where so many come to pursue dreams.
