As usual, very well said Ron.
There was one passenger, Doug Stone who lives in Fountain Valley, and I have
struggled to try to remember if he could have been a customer at my store.
Did I interact with him? What was said? Praying that it was a good
experience. Things like that have been bothering me.
News plays in the back ground as reports keep coming in on all of the events
that have been happening. Mentally, I feel a bit numb. Emotionally, I don't
think I could cry anymore, until the news shows a story of one of the victims
family members and their desperate struggle to hang on to hope, then my
throat tightens and my eyes tear up as my heart and soul breaks for the
anguish they are feeling.
I feel burdened by the weight of the country's sorrows. As a young child, I
experienced the loss of a loved one that still devastates me to this day. It
was not as horrible or traumatic as what the people in New York, DC and Pen,
may have experienced, but painful all the same. So when I see someone crying
with worry or anguish, it hits me incredibly hard.
I understand that I am rambling a bit, but it feels good. Good to reach out
to someone and share my feelings. Somehow the nation feels smaller now, more
like my close family has jumped from 4 to 365 million.
Julie
2000 Dakota Quad Cab SLT+ V6 3.9 4X2 Driftwood
In a message dated 9/15/01 9:48:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
ron-wong@home.com writes:
<< Thanks Aaron. There were many victims on those planes that were from
California. Though, I don't know any of them personally, I do know people
who know them. But it really doesn't matter that I don't know them. I
don't know the many victims in NYC either but I feel a part of me is
missing because of them. I can't even begin to explain the rage I feel
because when organizations such as these decide to pray on the innocent
peoples of the world they take a piece out of each and everyone one of us.
Though, there are those that condemn the practice of retaliation, I feel I
must remind you that from the beginning of life it has been survival of the
fittest. Whether the war be biological against viruses and bacteria or
human scourge, it must be fought so that the strongest do survive. Even
within your own body, the immune system ends up killing some good cells in
order to destroy the enemy. That means America and democracy MUST WIN!
There is no other choice!
GOD BLESS THE DML and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Ron
00 PB SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
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