[Ipg-smz] 9/11

Dana Blankenhorn danablankenhorn at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:26:59 UTC 2018


Gee, the worst thing that happened to me was having Daniel Dern stay at our
house for 3 days. <g> We were both covering Supercomm when the towers were
hit. Met there, and he told me about his problems getting back north. So I
had him over.

Back then the kids were 10 and 13, and he had to sleep on a futon in the
front room. The futon is now a coach, the kids are now grown, and we added
a master suite in 2009 so if it happens again, Dan, you can have your
choice of 3 bedrooms!

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:24 AM Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
wrote:

> Of the many horrifying changes that happened that day, the most sad for me
> is how it changed my daughter’s reality.
>
> We lived in North Jersey at the time (still do) and she was four years old
> at the time. She noticed the attack from our backroom windows (the skyline
> looked different, the smoke and the empty skies other than military
> aircraft).
>
> Some of her friends’ parents were killed in the attack, as this is a
> commuting to NYC neighborhood.
>
> She’s known terrorism her whole life. She became an avid runner and was
> hit hard by the Boston Marathon attacks, in the city where she would
> eventually go to college.
>
> Once in college, her roommate was from Bangledesh. And when her friend
> returned home for the summer, several of her close friends were killed in a
> Dhaka terror attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack
> ).
>
> She’ll never know a life without terrorism and the fears and uncertainty
> that comes with that. Not the reality I would have wanted her to have.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______
>
> Evan Schuman
>
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Phil Shapiro
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:10 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
>
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>
> Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are some of the
> wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom.
>
>
>
> Thinking about actions each one of us can take -- one small way I'm
> involved in rebuilding community is via the Timebanking movement.  In case
> you might not be familiar - Timebanks are a method for community members to
> work for each other -- to pull for each other.
>
> Further info is at https://timebanks.org/     I'm proud to say I'm
> friends with the founder of this movement, Edgar Cahn,
>
> former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, among other things.
>
>
>
> https://twitter.com/edgarcahn
>
>
>
>    And the past few days I've also been refurbishing a lovely HP laptop
> for one of the custodians in the building where I work.
>
> He has two daughters, 9 and 16.  His former Windows XP laptop is being
> reborn as a Linux Mint laptop -- and ought to serve this
>
> family for several years. His daughters might not have a MacBook Air to
> use -- but they're going to have a very fine laptop in their
>
> hands quite soon. It's not me providing them with this gift -- it's the
> worldwide open source community, of which I play one small part.
>
>
>
>           I was living and working in Arlington, Virginia, on 9/11.  I
> remember the acrid odor of smoke from the Pentagon, two miles from where
>
> I was living. A better world is within reach, but each one of us must
> resolve to do their part.
>
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"thenderson" <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
> *To: *"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM
> *Subject: *[Ipg-smz] 9/11
>
>
>
> Fellow Guilders,
>
> It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of the
> madness we face even to this day.
>
> We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and the
> crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted. Lives
> disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the hundreds of
> thousands now buried across the Middle East.
>
> My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively, and not
> for long.
>
> Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal
> privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.
>
> Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending, bombarding
> each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.
>
> At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal concerted
> efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of
> vituperative epithet.
>
> It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we look at
> the healed scar tissue.
>
> Peace,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> --
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