"The Train I was Supposed to Take Blew Up"

Shyam Patel (right), a recent graduate of Montclair State University, tells his girlfriend, Amina Abdelrahman (left), a story about the summer vacation he will never be able to forget. It was July 11, 2006. That was the day that my family and I were leaving India, after a spending the summer visiting relatives. We planned on…