cyclist david wulf said september 11th changed christmas for him. >> it's my toast to do at christmas and i'm going to bring that point up. we all fee very fortunate to have come through this incident and come through about our heads high as a country. >> reporter: the lynch family said their traditional christmas day dog walk at the beach took on a special memeaning this year. >> my traditions are going ooutlast anything. nobody could do anything to change nem. >> given what happened september 101th, i think it changed everybody's lives, especially mine and it's affected my kids and everybody that you talk to. i think just that you hold life more precious. berkeley city streets were nearly deserted today as was the uc campus. this jogger is visiting his brother. >> people have lost lives and tragedies have happen, so people don't have the people to spend time with and i feel fortunate about that. >> reporter: many say this christmas was subdued. >> it's a expansiontor people to kind of regroup spiritually. we have had a hard year. >>> still to come on "a second look," a bay area man