Netters:
This morning, I received a call from my good friend Larry Sullivan,
who has apparently lost his oldest son-in-law in the New York tragedy.
I had already made note of this in an earlier post, but now have a
few more details which might be of interested , particularly to those on the
list who know Larry.
Larry's daughter met John Farrell when they were fellow students at
Bernards HS, a school whose accomplishments in track and field and CC would
take an entire book to chronicle. They started dating as sophomores and had
been together ever since. They have four children, two boys and two girls,
aged three to 11.
The couple are prishioners of St. James, Basking Ridge (Bernards
Twp), a parish my younger daughter also attends. There are nine missing
persons from the parish, eight men and one woman, typical of many religious
institutions of all faithers in the North Jersey area. (There was a story in
the Star Ledger this morning about a parish in Monmouth County where 78
names were read out at Sunday Mases this week, more than half of them
parishioners). It has, as I also noted earlier, been estimated that at least
half of the victims are from our state.
It s an unfortunate fact that my old hometown, jersey City, has been
used as a base by the plotters in both the present instance and in the 1993
attack, principally because of its location just across the river from
downtown NYC. It is, I would note for those who will be reading stories
about this, also tru that the response by the town I still think of as home
that is entirely commensurate with its long history of response to piublic
crises.
Ed Grant
