Jan:
People here are are mobilizing to do what they can to help and we will
participate. All our thoughts are with you.
Ron and Mary Tebo
Calgary AB Canada
Jan Eyerman wrote:
>
> Javier,
>
> Thank you for the kind words, it is nice to know that people in other
> countries care a little for the USA.
>
> The famous Eyerman luck held..... I am the unluckiest gambler there is, I
> ALWAYS lose. However, in the "real world" I am VERY lucky. My meeting at
> 9:00 AM in the World Trade center was YESTERDAY. It does seem strange that I
> will never again ride the escalator up from the PATH subway into the building.
> I will never again walk those marble halls, never see the huge underground
> shopping center. I bought the last candy bar from the candy stand outside the
> entrance to the PATH subway that I will ever buy.
>
> Twenty years ago my Mom had an office on the 80th floor of the North Tower,
> fortunately she has been retired for a long time, but I know the buildings
> well. They are a MAJOR transit point for the subways and the "PATH" and I
> often pass through the buildings when I am going to downtown Manhattan and the
> financial district.
>
> I can still everything the way it was at 11:00 AM yesterday when I rode back
> down the escalator to catch the PATH subway back to New Jersey.
>
> I was on my way into New York City this morning, stuck in a traffic jam on
> Route 280 in Newark when I saw the second airplane hit the second tower. I
> parked at the parking lot by the PATH station and watched the huge fires,
> waiting a short while and then called my wife to tell that I had not made it
> into New York this morning (much to her relief!). My meeting this morning was
> at 1 Penn Plaza, so I wasn't even going near the World Trade Center, but it
> was still a shock.
>
> The good news for me was that the people I met with yesterday made it out OK.
>
> So far, everyone we know is OK, some are just getting home now (10:30 PM).
>
> Jan Eyerman
> Flanders, New Jersey
>
> "Javier Alamo" <jalamo@servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> All my sympathies to all USA list members and their families. We are
> concerned too.
> Good luck.
>
> Javier Alamo
> 66 Alpine
> Mexico City
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