Word: sincock
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...something amazing happened during those harrowing 24 hours. Sincock began to go through the grieving process, but far more quickly than others. At around 1 p.m., when his own world seemed bleakest, a friend with an alcohol problem tapped him on the shoulder and said he was ready to give up sobriety. Sincock took him aside and told him not to worry, that things would eventually work out. "When I began to help him, I got outside of myself for a few minutes, and the worry and despair was gone," says Sincock. He discovered in himself a compassion he never...
...next day, he went to the Red Cross tent, where a Navy chaplain told him about the family-support center at the Sheraton across from the Pentagon. Sincock had never done any grief counseling before, but, in a way, his own loss made him the truest form of grief counselor. Those who visited the center came to see him as a hero. "All I could do was share my own story with them," he says. "Tell them what I've found. And that there is hope." After Sincock's first day there, Lieut. General John Van Alstyne...
During those first weeks, Sincock realized that the families' grief would last far longer than the support center would exist (it closed two months ago). He had heard about a website still being used by the families of those who perished in the ValuJet crash five years ago, and he decided to launch pentagonangels.net It is not a tribute to the fallen, or a place to make donations, but rather a place for the families of those who died on the plane or in the Pentagon to share stories and begin to heal. It also offers practical advice. Sincock restricts...
More than 300 people have begun to use the site. Sincock has incorporated it with the state of Virginia and paid to trademark the name. (He has spent about $1,000 so far.) Now that he's back at work full time, he rises at 3:30 a.m. to answer e-mails, sometimes more than 100 a day. Then he goes to work at 6 a.m., gets home about 10 hours later and often stays up working on the computer until after midnight. The Pentagon has promised for months that it would put up its own website for the families...
What strikes you most about Sincock is his smile: even in the few days after the attack, Sincock had a glow about him. "I feel blessed every single day," he often says, and it's hard not to believe him. He loves to tell stories of the people he has helped. He says he's now in that final stage of grieving; he is constantly flooded by wonderful memories of his wife. "What I'm trying to do," he says, "is to pass that way of thinking along to the others. If they can only get one-tenth of that...