WELL SAID Allen!!!!.
I sit here, looking at these pathetic, senseless, barbaric acts, wanting so
badly to do something to stop them, but feeling powerless as an individual
to do it. I can only re-double my support of those are collectively are
trying to do something about them.
Tom
> [Original Message]
> From: Allen C Miller, Jr. <acmiller@mhcable.com>
> To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 7/8/05 7:09:11 AM
> Subject: condolences
>
> When I heard of terrorism in far places after 9-11, I sometimes wanted to
> rationalize that "that's out there somewhere, not here". It came a little
> closer yesterday, though. My older sister lives in London, and decided to
go
> to work half an hour early by bus through Charring Cross, missing the
terror.
> On 9-11, my baby sister, who worked in Building 7, one of the lower
buildings
> that fell, had decided to work from home that day, fortuitously missing
the
> hell of seeing one of the planes pass overhead into the tower and
escaping a
> crumbling building. My family twice spared, but barely, I now look upon
> terrorism, regardless of its political intentions, as a personal attack
on me,
> and have upped my resolve to support those, younger and braver, who
bravely
> put their lives on the line to bring this madness to a speedier end.
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