A Moment Please...

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Dear Friends,

As I look out my office window this morning on 49th Street and 5th Avenue in New York and remember the beautiful sight that used to greet me every morning and reflect on the events that transpired two years ago today I extend my heart felt wishes to all of us that have been touched by the past events. I will attend a special mass today in honor of those that were lost and those of us that were left behind. Let us not forget our sons (mine is in the Marines and somewhere in the Middle East) and daughters in the Armed Forces as they protect our great land. God Bless You All and God Bless America.

Thank you for being my friends and please take care,

Iris
 
Thank you for that. My husband and I used to be in the Army and my two brothers are still in the Army. One is stationed in Germany.

I join you in your thoughts and prayers for our country, the people who were lost on September 11, 2001 and their families, our troops and all of us who have been left behind to face this new reality.

Blessings from our home to yours...Runathon
 
It is 8:52 a.m. 09/11/03 here (Eastern time). I am sitting here at my computer at work, the same as I was two years ago, when I heard on my radio about the attack. It is a very eery feeling. We just had a moment of silence and my thoughts and prayers are with all of the families of victims, people serving our country... and the whole country. God Bless America

Linda
 
We should also remember that other Spetember 11th in 1973 when a US backed military coup in Chile ousted the democratically elected president Allende, which lead to 2 decades of military rule under a dictatorship and which killed hundreds of thousands of individuals through kidnap and torture and assassination, split families apart for ever, and sent thousands more into exile. Chile still bears the scars of this "military exercise," as do a multitude of other countries in South, Central America and in the Caribbean.

Spetember 11th means many things to different people.

Importantly for me also, it is my parents wedding anniversary. Their special date is now always tinged with sadness, but I don't hold the more recent September 11th to be the greater crime. God, should he exist, may bless all those who have been the victims of political violence, throughout the Americas, South, Central, the Caribbean and the North.

Clare
 
Gayle, I am sorry...but what does this have to do with this thread for a moment to remember the 9/11 tragedy?

Blessings from our home to yours...Runathon
 
Iris, I work very near you. It's a tough day today and your kind words are appreciated. I'm particularly thinking of Kathy H today.

Carole
 
Iris, I'm at 45th and Sixth.

Kathy H. Was displaced from the World Financial Center on 9/11 and came to work in my office (her company is a client of my law firm) and that's how we met and became friends. That's also how I "met" Cathe.

carole
 
Oh my God - I had no idea.

It's weird sometimes when certain things happen. Before I accepted my current position I had three other offers - all of them at the trade center. Two of my friends accepted and stayed downtown - I went midtown - the rest is history.

Take care Carole and please give a hug to Kathy for me.

Iris
 
In response to Post #4
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Oh, please -- for goodness sake . . . . .

So easy to resort to criticism of the U.S. and bypass all the great things that this country has done . . . .

Slow inhale, slow exhale -- bring blood pressure down . . . . .




Proud to be an American --
9/11/01 - I will never, never forget . . . .
 
Thanks CynDaVaz. I felt my own blood rising, too. Yours was a much more measured response than I could have managed.

I'm also proud to be an American and I will never forget.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.
 
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