Hope you all ...

[Dave Monroe]

This was my question as I watched the first tower
collapse shortly after posting this morning ...

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> Just turned on the news. This is not true, is it?

Absolutely devastating, like watching some apocalyptic
disaster film.   Irwin Allen, Susan Sontag.  I hadn't
seen anything like this since the Challenger
explosion, and that now pales in comparison.  I'm sure
I can't imagine the horror of having seen it in
person, and I'm sure I don't ever want to have the
opportunity to do so, but I was in tears, shaking ... 


News rerunning footage of the second plane hitting the
second tower over and over again, and there's still
that lingering hope, maybe it's all just special
effects ... you can hear someone saying "Holy shit!"
on network TV.  As you should.  But I fear politics
has already coopted the tragedy, the pain, so ...

Sorry, only just recently back on line, thanks for
checking in, everybody, I've just spend the last
couple hours sorting through the day's e-mail,
forwarding messages from friends to friends, and,
while I rememeber as well the difficulties
reestablishing contacts after the San Francisco
earthquake, I'm still anxiously awaiting at least one
last message from the Pentagon or therabouts ...

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