[Ipg-smz] 9/11

Tue Sep 11 16:42:52 UTC 2018

That flight, that day, still tear at me, even though I was well aware that
similar -- if less violent -- attacks had been occurring elsewhere for the
preceding 30 years.
I am very grateful to the people who helped us -- and for all the others
who played whatever role in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks (and
really glad I didn't accept the invitation to spend the weekend in New York
and the proposed Monday brunch at the top of the WTC Tower).
Truly, a day that will live in infamy for our generation.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 12:02, Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:

> Since I was in a plane flying past the WTC seconds after the first plane
> hit, that sight, and that day, are indelibly burned into my memory. We were
> on the way to company meetings. One of the most painful moments was when we
> got to the conference centre in New Jersey (thank goodness our driver had
> the wit to get off the island before the bridges were closed), standing in
> the lobby watching on TV with the staff, many of whom had friends working
> at the restaurant on top of the tower. Yet they still managed to do their
> jobs – not that any of us were demanding much, since everyone was in shock.
>
>
>
> That day cemented my affection for BlackBerry; when cell circuits and land
> lines were slammed, and the Internet close to useless, my BB, on the clunky
> old Ardis network, was the only way we could let the company and our
> families know we were all OK. I’d email my husband, who passed messages to
> the office (company email was essentially down because HQ, and the server,
> were in NYC).
>
>
>
> *From:* Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Dana
> Blankenhorn
> *Sent:* September-11-18 11:27 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
>
>
>
> 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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>
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>
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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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *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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