[Ipg-smz] 9/11
Bob Reselman
bob at cogarttech.com
Tue Sep 11 16:55:49 UTC 2018
I watched Tower 1 go down from my office window. I watch the second tower go down as in stood in front to the office building on 6th and 32nd St. I remember walking past St. Vincents Hospital and seeing the gurneys lined up in front, on the street in preparation for the injured about to be delivered.
Everything changed after that event. My world went topsy turvy. Took me a good year to get beyond the trauma. That I ended up in LA, in a new marriage can be attributed in good part to the events of 9/11.
On Sep 11, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Steve Wexler <stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com<mailto:stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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<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<mailto: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<mailto: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
eschuman at thecontentfirm.com<mailto:eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
973-993-8098<tel:973-993-8098> (voice)
Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive: http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld)
Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events
Google Search: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman#<http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman>
https://twitter.com/eschuman
www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/<http://www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/>
Member, Internet Press Guild: http://netpress.org/
From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:thenderson at extremelabs.com>>
To: "ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org<mailto: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
--
Tom Henderson
ExtremeLabs, Inc.
+1 317 250 4646<tel:+1%20317-250-4646>
Twitter: @extremelabs
Skype: extremelabsinc
--
Ipg-smz mailing list
Ipg-smz at netpress.org<mailto:Ipg-smz at netpress.org>
http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org
--
--
Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com<mailto:pshapiro at his.com>
http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
"Learning happens thru gentleness."
"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki
--
Ipg-smz mailing list
Ipg-smz at netpress.org<mailto:Ipg-smz at netpress.org>
http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org
--
Dana Blankenhorn
http://www.danablankenhorn.com<http://www.danablankenhorn.com/>
http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV
--
Ipg-smz mailing list
Ipg-smz at netpress.org<mailto:Ipg-smz at netpress.org>
http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org
--
Steve Wexler
Wordslingers Ink
O: 416-282-0091
C: 647-938-0091
stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com<mailto:stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com>
--
Ipg-smz mailing list
Ipg-smz at netpress.org<mailto:Ipg-smz at netpress.org>
http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://netpress.org/pipermail/ipg-smz_netpress.org/attachments/20180911/0fb236ce/attachment-0001.html>
More information about the Ipg-smz
mailing list