RE: OT: Terrorism

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Don't worry about the posting ... many of us were watching the thing live
here too. I saw both towers collapse this afternoon on TV probably at the
same time as you did.

Once the shock has started to die there'll be the anger and that's the bit
that could get really messy!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 September 2001 00:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Terrorism
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing to you from holiday, in Canada, about 90 minutes drive
> out of  Montreal to be exact. Didn't I pick the wrong time to come to
> North America?
>
> We're currently in this odd situation. We feel personally safe for
> the next few days - we're staying with friends in a rural area.
> However, we're also directly affected - we have NO IDEA whether we're
> going to be able to get home on Saturday. At the moment, all the
> airports in North America are shut. Furthermore, only a couple of
> days ago it was Mary and I who were on an aircraft flying on a course
> that meant it could have been a bomb. Worse than that, we now have to
> fly back in a few days, in order to see our families again, but are
> not sure how we feel about getting on a plane.
>
> The sheer horror of what's actually happened doesn't come through on
> the web, I'm afraid. We were sitting here this morning, watching the
> pictures live on CNN, and seeing the first tower collapse, knowing
> that there were FIFTY-THOUSAND people working in that building, and
> wondering how all the survivors of the original crash could possibly
> have been all evacuated.
>
> It gets worse.
>
> The friend we are staying with an us have a mutual friend. This
> mutual friend (who I am not naming for reasons that will become
> obvious) is a doctor, working in Northern Ireland. He is a
> protestant. He treats both Protestants and Catholics.
>
> On Sunday, he was called up, and told that unless he stops treating
> Catholics, then he, and his wife, will be killed. He has been told,
> point blank, that he is "the target of a sniper's rifle."
>
> What kind of world do we live in?
>
> No need to reply. Apologies for posting a long, rambling, off-topic
> message here and wasting everyone's time, but I'm a bit shaken up
> right now, as is Mary, and I guess that venting my feelings in
> writing here means that I don't end up collapsing emotionally.
>
> Maybe I should hit "cancel" rather than "send".
Maybe I will, I guess
> I'm going to be spending the next few minutes scrolling back and
> forth. If you end up reading this, then you know which...
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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