IP: Re -- the warmth, generosity, and quiet support our good neighbors in Canada have provided to us, not only in recent weeks, but over the long haul.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:08:54 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org>
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 12:36:10 -0500
> > To: dave () farber net
> > From: Gene Spafford <spaf () cerias purdue edu>
> >
> >
> > This is the first story I have seen along these lines.
> >
> > I think it behooves all of us to recognize the warmth, generosity, and 
> > quiet support our good neighbors in Canada have provided to us, not only 
> > in recent weeks, but over the long haul.
>
> Dave,
>
> I work in Manhattan and live in New Jersey, each day taking an express bus 
> to and from a park-and-ride and the Port Authority. Usually I work on my 
> laptop (often catching up on too many mailing lists). Since 11 September, 
> though, the person sitting next to me often wants to talk. Last night (a 
> Friday) was one of those times. My correspondent, Mike, was an Irish-born 
> construction worker, a 20-year resident of New York. He was working in 
> building 4 the morning of the 11th. (Over 50 members of his local were 
> lost, he said.) Like many New Yorkers, he had his own small tale to offer, 
> including watching WTC 2 be hit while standing next to a woman who, 
> disregarding the fire marshalls, she told him, had fled from the 101st 
> floor just minutes earlier when the first plane hit building 1.
>
> Stacked end to end the edifice of New York stories would dwarf the towers 
> themselves. I write, though, because he told me something I hadn't heard 
> before. His family lives a few miles from Shannon, and his mother told him 
> that on the 11th, all those stranded at the Shannon airport from flights 
> that weren't able to go to the U.S. were brought to the city and the 
> nearby towns. He said that two Americans stayed with his mother. He 
> mentioned this casually, merely to prove a point he was making, which was 
> that New York wasn't attacked on 9/11, the U.S. wasn't attacked, the whole 
> world, he insisted, was attacked.
>
> --
>   Steven Cherry   +1 212 419 7566   <s.cherry () ieee org>
>   Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum, New York, NY
>    http://www.spectrum.ieee.org
>
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>   and instantly in any one account."   Walter Lippman



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