Re: NYC/DC Atrocities

From: Marty Galyean (mgalyean@acm.org)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 22:51:46 EDT


You are the Man, Bob. I'm right there with you.

Marty

DAKSY wrote:
>
> Hey, DML.
> I just wanted to mention that after watching the conflagrations in NYC & DC
> last nite, I just felt kinda numb & overwhelmed. I was chatting with Andy on
> AIM during the evening & I know he took it pretty hard. I guess it just
> seemed so surreal to me that it never really sank in. Maybe having been thru
> the JFK, RFK & MLK assassinations & having lost friends in NAM, I just
> couldn't face the reality & the scope of what occurred in the early hours of
> Sep. 11. Jeez, I was in NYC on Sunday for the Yankees/Red Sox & on the way
> down I pointed out the Empire State Building & the WTC towers to my girls.
> Now they're gone...
> Anyway, I went to work this AM & grabbed the NY Post & the NY Daily News. As
> I thumbed thru page after page of nothing but mayhem, the enormity of what
> happened started to sink in.Then, I turned to the last page of the Daily
> News & saw a tattered Stars & Stripes amid the devastation with the caption
> "Defiant American flag waves in the rubble of the World Trade Center," and I
> started crying in the parking lot of the gas station where I bought the
> papers...
> God DAMN those cowardly terrorist bastards to HELL!
>
> and...GOD BLESS AMERICA!
>
> I proudly served in the US Army in the early 70's, but if my country needs
> me to serve again in order to help to maintain the freedom of my fellow
> Americans, I stand at the ready!
>
> (whew! feel better already...)
>
> Bob Smith (Daksy2K on AIM)
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