What Fires You Up?

9/13/2002

 

http://www.dailyiowan.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/270247.html Link to editorial article for the Daily Iowan: Sensationalist Coverage of 9-11 This is the way 'one American' feels! I am moved by the Candlelight Vigil I attended while in Ann Arbor, MI this week. a mere 15,000 people gathered on the "Diag", a kind of "quad" for the University of Michigan. More later - just got back from a long trip out of state... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/13/2002 07:17:00 AM

9/08/2002

 

Good Evening All! I'm just about to get to bed and have a whole 7 hours' sleep IN A ROW, so this is a quick note. I got this link from a brother tonight, his email titled "Tired of 9-11 Commercialism?" The Twin Towers at Ground Zero Theme Park Oh yes, it's sick, however, sadly... it does not seem to be a parody at first glance. Hmmm. On the other hand, I have read the USA today articles that recounted the stories in great detail of the 20 people that survived the the collapse of both towers, though buried. In particular, 14 survived by miraculous conditions of how the concrete and metal collapsed, and the exact placement of where each one was at the final moments. 12 are police and Port Authority, 1a fireman, and 1 a civilian. I've never read the stories of these few survivors before. What a tale of humanity in it's smallest and greatest qualities! I am very glad I got a chance to read something this week that really meant something to me. In the long run, in hope for the future, the stories of the survivors are the most important for faith and hope. Of course, the horrors and disasters are unavoidable, unforgettable, and must be remembered, but I'm so glad to see these stories in the paper of the few who survived. "No one gets out alive" is quoted from a song by the Doors - but, all survival and faith in mans' HUMANITY to man are in these survivors' stories. Miracles emerge from debris By Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY The bodies of 2,803 human beings were buried when the World Trade Center crumbled into 3 billion pounds of debris. Miraculously, 20 people survived the collapse, amid steel beams, concrete slabs and other wreckage. They escaped death in the most unlikely of ways and in the most surprising of places. Fourteen people survived inside the remnants of a stairwell at the center of the north tower. One man remembers falling from a 22nd floor stairwell in the north tower and regaining consciousness atop the 12-story-deep pile of rubble at Ground Zero. Two police officers, trapped in debris between the towers, barely survived both collapses. Reflecting, * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/08/2002 09:15:00 PM