[Ipg-smz] 9/11

Tue Sep 11 17:28:44 UTC 2018

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Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 09/11/2018 01:16 PM, Richard Santalesa wrote:
> This is sadly not the 21^st 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
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *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
> *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.
> 
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> *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
> 
> 
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