> I saw tonight in London(on the news), a marching band at Buckingham
Palace
> play "The Star Spangled Banner". It really made me feel a sense of
> solidarity and support from around the world. It struck me more
than any of
> the countless other times I've heard or sung it(once at a women's
basketball
> game in college w/ a cheat sheet :~}) I just thought it was very
cool.
I heard this on NPR this morning & started to choke up. The tears
haven't really come in full force yet. Sometimes it takes me a long
time to get it out but they're there. Eventually they will come. It
will probably be a song or a movie or an image on the television
(unrelated to the tragedy) that triggers them. Something like that
usually will do it for me.
I was walking toward my place of work this morning and saw a plane in
the sky. I had to stop & stare. Like others have said, I wonder if
we will ever get back to 'normal' again. I fear our innocence is
lost.
To Mike Pritchard: Except for the part about Hiroshima, I have to say
that many of the thoughts you expressed have occurred to me as well.
Many people on this planet have ill-will toward the US, right or
wrong. Certainly our history is not without blame or guilt. But did
those innocent people deserve what happened to them? No way. No more
than the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, I suppose.
I am very sad that Steve Dulson has left us. I wrote him a private
note. I hope he returns to us soon.
I'm not going to comment just yet about other discord on our list as I
asked for a moratorium on it yesterday. I do wish all of you love &
healing from the bottom of my heart.
Mark E
