"We have some planes."

Those were the first words spoken by the hijackers three years ago at 8:24:38 AM to the Boston Center air traffic controller.

Thus, the day that changed the worlds of millions of people begun.

Today, three years later, New Englanders "have some bikes."

And we mean to use them.

Starting in Dover, I join two hundred and one other people who represent a victim from New England, and we bike to Boston. We do this in benefit of the Beyond the 11th organization, a foundation intent on bringing peaceful US presences to countries who, for the most part, have been forgotten about by our US government.

There is no greater cause in unification of our world. We cannot beat terrorism with guns. We can only beat it with face-to-face ideological battles of it. We can only beat it with activism.

Remember, when you kill someone in the Middle East wrongfully just like anywhere, their family, like our families, will rush to their aid and fight in their name. The more people you wrongfully kill, the more hatred you garner. If Vietnam had any positive results attached to it, it was that we found out, as a nation, that the free spirit of people to choose their own path will not be denied.

May our journey today help to bring the worlds of the US and the Middle East closer together.