A lot of things have changed in the global landscape since Sept. 11, 2001. But for at least one family, time stopped that day.

"It's going to open up the wound again, bringing back a lot of fresh and old memories. It will reset the clock again," said John Koborie, 77, of Trumbull Avenue in Sharon, referring to the two-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. "It's still the same. The world has never healed. I think the rest of them (his family) are doing a little bit better than I am."

The pain Koborie referred to was the loss of his daughter, Rebecca Koborie, 48, of Guttenberg, N.J. The 1971 Sharon High School graduate was working for Marsh and McClennan Inc. on the 97th floor of the first World Trade Center tower to be hit by a hijacked plane. The plane hit the 96th through the 103rd floors.

To this day, nothing has been found of her remains, Koborie said.

"I remember saying one way or another I'm going to bring Becky back, but it never happened," he said. "It wouldn't make any difference, but I would like to touch some part of her -- that would be some closure to me, yes it would. I don't know to what extent. I would feel a little bit better, but so far nothing. Nothing can be done. We have to be not content, but go along with it."

The family went to New York recently when Ms. Koborie's employer held a memorial and unveiled a granite marker with the names and signatures of the 365 employees the business lost that day. "It was beautiful, really nice," Koborie said. "We were also invited to ground zero (today), but we can't go everywhere. That's a lot of traveling."

Instead, he and his wife Julie and some other family members will attend the memorial at 10 this morning in the Sharon city building. "We had many invitations to go to many different memorials (today) but could only attend one," he said.

Koborie discussed the changes in the world since that heartbreaking day.

"The whole turmoil that was caused by the terrorists, well not so much the terrorists that did it, but I blame the CIA for not watching us close enough. The FBI and CIA had fallen asleep and did nothing. The airlines took sky marshals out of airplanes to save money (before Sept. 11)," he said, adding he understands why some victims' families have filed lawsuits against the airlines involved.

"I support that, but so far we're not involved with any lawsuits," Koborie said.

Koborie said he feels that countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, whose regimes allowed terrorists to thrive in their lands, also had a hand in that day.

"My beef is, the countries that let them live in it and train for that purpose," he said. "I feel sorry for the Iraqis, but how can I feel sorry when they allowed the killing of my daughter. I think it's justified, our war on Iraq. Regardless of whether they found weapons of mass destruction, this has to be done. That was (Saddam Hussein's) aim -- to destroy a lot of people of American descent across the world."

A scholarship at Sharon High in his daughter's name has grown to $17,000. "A lot of people helped," he said, adding that donations have slowed quite a bit.

"People begin to forget," he said. "But we still have our bad days."