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You go to bed hoping to wake from a nightmare. Screams live around me now. I want to break out in them. Tears I cannot shed. They rise in a column of smoke and gypsum. They scatter their ash on us. The thousands, the thousands who died. Who lie buried in broken steel and concrete. Alive. In hope. Aircraft carriers to the harbors of the free city. The city I love. Army on the street. Come downtown and you will be arrested. Every threat to every bridge, credible. Schools closed. How many children's parents will never bring them there again? Remember them. Send us your hearts. Our's are broken.
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Send us your hearts. So we do, sir; so we do. MaxQ has given us a beacon to light our way: "Inhumanity at its worst has given humanity a chance to shine at its best."
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Screams live around me now. I want to break out in them. Of course you do--go ahead, darling one. You and all who were eyewitnesses. And some of us who weren't. You have had our hearts since yesterday morning. I don't know if the feeling of being in a nightmare will ever go away. I know how badly I want to wake up--it must be thousands of times worse for you.
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Max, I think you may be the wisest of us all. Witness:
Or, at least as percieved by some fundamentalist, mostly Shi'ite, Muslims. Not all Muslims feel this way, and to tar them all with the fundamentalist brush would be to give the pepetrators another victory.
The ability of so many so close to the tragedy to see clearly the perils of overreaction is an inspiration, and ought to strike real fear into those unspeakable fiends responsible.
Inhumanity at its worst has given humanity a chance to shine at its best.
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Partial List of Hijacking Victims; .c The Associated Press - Christine Hanson, 2, Massachusetts. - Juliana Valentine McCourt, 4, Westford, Mass.
dear god, dear god, dear god ...
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that the first thing that everyone wants to do after a disaster is: talk to somebody about it?
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An earlier generation knew the neighborhood where I live as "Hell's Hundred Acres." Outside of history books, the name is all but forgotten, now. But around the corner, the firemen of the local company remembered, and christened one of their engines that. Unostentatiously. You would only notice if you passed close by the open garage door where, on pleasant days, they would pass the time. If you didn't know the men by name, you did by sight. We often laughed watching them shop, planning gourmet meals for their duty. These men. Strapping. Almost surly, if you can mean that 'in the best sense.'
Being no near the disaster, the company was among the first to arrive on the scene. Presumably, before the buildings toppled. Because they were too close. The engine, flattened. Of that company, none survived.
And the company on Broome Street, just a block or two further away, lost half its men.
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John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.".
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Jackie, I thank God for your heart.
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Oh Insel. My heart breaks as yours does. Courage love, courage. Know that all of us have you in our heart and minds always.
The call came this morning that NY needed blood badly. Donor clinics have already been set up all over the city and people are flocking. We're on our way do not dispair.
Love,
Gin.
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