[Ipg-smz] 9/11

Tue Sep 11 17:16:19 UTC 2018

This is sadly not the 21st century I was hoping for… to be sure. 

From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Evan Schuman
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11

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.

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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
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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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