[Ipg-smz] 9/11
Perlow, Jason
jperlow at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 18:27:49 UTC 2018
9/11 IS the cause of my PTSD and why I no longer live in the area.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 2:00 PM <wrash at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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>
> > Twitter: @extremelabs
> > Skype: extremelabsinc
> >
> >
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> > --
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
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> > Dana Blankenhorn
> >
> > http://www.danablankenhorn.com
> >
> > http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV
> >
> >
> >
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