On September 12, 2001 07:19 pm, JW wrote:
> Ok.. that's over done, but I really do appreciate at least this man, and
> would love to find that many of his fellow citizens think likewise.
I live in Ottawa, Canada's capital. Yesterday, the entire city was filled
with shock and outrage. People gathered on the streets and anywhere there was
a TV or radio. There was only one topic of conversation.
Blood banks were opened across the city and by the afternoon there were an
average of 4-5 hour lineups to give blood for dispatch to hospitals in New
York. In fact, by mid afternoon television and radio stations announced that
the Canadian Blood Service had maxxed out and could not accept any more
donors. Emergency workers throughout Eastern Ontario and Quebec were put on
immediate alert to move in to support and provide relief to those in New York
state, should they be needed.
Today every flag on every building throughout our nation's capital,
government or corporate, was at half mast and will probably remain that way
for the rest of the week. As big as Canada and the US are, there are very
close ties between our nations. Today we found out that a number of
colleagues and friends of people on our project team were in the WTC in NYC
and have not been heard from since the incident... they are presumably lost.
Canadians are a funny people. We pride ourselves on moderacy, openess and a
blind faith in basic decency that approaches niaivety. Yet yesterday everyone
I talked with was filled with both shock and anger. My wife called me at work
on my cell phone when the story broke and she could hardly speak. It's true
we sometimes have small "family" trade tiffs with our cousins to the South,
but from what I saw yesterday, it's clear that Canadians take great exception
to any group that would commit such a barbaric and outrageous violation
against our good friends and neighbours - members of our North American
"family". It takes a lot to get Canadians mad... yesterday I saw it happen in
spades. Today it is turning into a great knawing sadness as the full
realization of the tragedy is beginning to soak through the shock and anger.
To all our American friends, we stand with you.
--
burns
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