[meteorite-list] One year ago

From: John Divelbiss <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:23 2004
Message-ID: <000b01c2591d$d1749f80$3a155a0c_at_0m824>

Bernd, Matteo and Brothers and Sisters of this list,

One year ago our country was savagely and cowardly attacked. It was my first
experience of a so-called war that hit me "close to home". I did not lose a
family member or friend, but I cried just the same. Living here in the
middle of the 3 sites of the crashes was scary. The horrors we all witnessed
were reminders to me of my grandfather's stories of the trench battles, and
the great pain and suffering of WW 1. He left us last November at 106. He
always felt war was such a waste, but yet he was very patriotic and
supported our countries efforts to stop others from creating such terror and
grief. My father's stories of WW 2 were just as disturbing...he even had
horrific pictures that a friend of his took of the concentration camps.
Vietnam is a nightmare for many. All countires involved in these wars can
attest to the horror. People can be so cruel.

Let us not forget that fateful day last year. We all have to be diligent in
our daily lives, and possibly one day have to pay the great sacrifice to
stop the evil. I am ready if such an occurrence would present itself.

John

Reading, PA
USA



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] One year ago


> One year ago, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, I went
> online to download that day's posts. What I found was this:
>
> > Not meteorite related / Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:25:21 -0500
>
> > For those of you who haven't heard yet America has been attacked.
> > This makes the Oklahoma bombing look like child's play. A plane
> > has hit the Pentagon and one plane has hit each of the World Trade
> > Center towers. One of the towers has collapsed. According to some
> > news reports up to three of our commercial planes have been hijacked
> > as well. Rhett Bourland
>
> I translated Rhett's words for my wife and she was asking me if I was
> aware of what I was translating. I said yes I was. Today I know I
> was not. Soon after, my daughter and my son-in-law arrived and we
> had to watch the abominable, nightmarish scenario that was unfolding
> before our eyes.
>
> I thought that I had finally overcome those woeful moments but while
> I was watching again one of those TV documentaries tonight about the
> coward attack on innocent people of every creed and every race, about
> this barbaric attack on our principles of freedom and human dignity,
> I realized that I would never be able to forget.
>
> There is no excuse, there is no justification, and there is no need
> to tell me it all happened because ... I grew up in post-war Germany,
> I saw black Americans give me Cadbury chocolate or chewing gum
> and candy and I still see their shining white teeth and the friendly
> expressions on their faces, I still remember GI's whom a 5-year-old
> Bernd asked in broken English: "Have you money, Mister?" And more
> often than not, they gave me 50 Pfennigs or even 1 German Mark, a
> huge amount of money in those days after WWII, these are the things
> I still cherish in my heart and so my heart goes out to those who
> lost loved ones on September 11, my heart goes out to America,
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Tue 10 Sep 2002 07:00:10 PM PDT