Thoughts for Thursdays

A break from the strictly "money talk".

 Susan Crossan is the Chief Compliance Officer and a Financial Advisor for NBS Financial Services. Susan draws upon her medical background as a registered nurse to bring true caring and compassion to the financial advisory profession. Susan obtained her Master's Degree in Personal Financial Planning from the College for Financial Planning, in 2011. She holds her Series 65 Uniform Investment Advisor certification, and is licensed through the North American Securities Administration Association. Susan places immense value in the client-advisor relationships she nurtures, and spares no effort in ensuring their happiness with her services.

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Thoughts for Thursday (11-19-2015)

Thoughts for Thursday (11-19-2015)

 

             

            As I was flying home from attending the Schwab conference in Boston Friday night, I happened to be on the flight that had personal television screens. I became a captive audience to all the terror and devastation that was taking place in Paris. For six hours I watched as the death toll climbed and the newscasters repeated the same information, I couldn’t change the channel to a lighter form of entertainment feeling as if I needed to somehow experience it along the French people. It was a bit surreal as they kept saying that this was France’s 9/11, and knowing I was on an airplane that had left from an airport from which two of the 9/11 airplanes had taken off.  I was struck by a segment where Geraldo Rivera spoke live to his daughter who was studying abroad, and had been in the Soccer Stadium when the first bombs went off.  Her fear was palpable, and watching him almost speechless asking her if she was alright and telling her he was coming to get her. I thought of all the families in Paris that night and what they must have been going through.

 

This morning I saw a video of an interviewer talking to a father and son at one of the memorials for the victims.  The little boy was probably around five and had said to the interviewer that now he would have to move because the mean men with guns would hurt him. His father said that they would not have to move, and that the flowers would fight the guns, to which the little boy questioned “the flowers and candles will protect us?” Both the interviewer and father said yes. It was a poignant moment when you witness adults trying desperately to shelter a child’s innocence. But, when I pondered the conversation, it is true.

 

When you watch the French people placing flowers and candles, you see people from all walks of life. When they are gathered there in mourning, there are no differences between them, they are all just the people of Paris, the people of France. That is the only thing that can fight terrorism, people of one country coming together to support each other. That is what happened to the US after 9/11, and that is what is happening now in France.

 

It is sad that it takes a tragedy for a country to band together.  I fear that these killers have only just begun their terror tactics.  I hope that we as a nation can look at France, and remember our own days after our own tragedy.  I hope that we can put aside all of our differences, and unit as one country to keep all of us safe.

 

I pray for the families of the victims of Paris and for all of the French people. I pray for the safety of all.  Please be safe, and aware.

 

 

 

Susan

 

Link to referenced video

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/little-french-boy-explains-bad-guys-to-his-dad-after-paris-attacks/

 

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