[Ipg-smz] 9/11
wrash at mindspring.com
wrash at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 11 17:59:27 UTC 2018
For some reason, 9/11 sets off my PTSD and I start looking over my shoulder for that missile that was intended to kill me. Usually I focus on writing until it goes away. But despite my best efforts, I can't ignore it.
WR
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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Christine Hall
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:23 PM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
Today is my late father's and my brother's birthday.
Since 2001, I try my best to ignore this day when it comes around. When the towers came down, I had no doubt that we would learn the wrong lesson from this, which we of course have. All I can think of today is that I'm much too old to continue the fight, and the millennials have no clue of what has to be done and undone. As Evan pointed out, all they know is the post 9/11 world.
I grieve for what we have lost and will never know again.
Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com
On 09/11/2018 12:01 PM, Lynn Greiner 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 <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>
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> Skype: extremelabsinc
>
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> "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
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