posted on September 13, 2001 05:03:14 PM new
The horrendous impact is really beginning to sink in. At first, the images of the crashes, then the buildings coming down were shocking and horrible. As the media begins to put faces and names to the victims, as family members talk of their loved ones making frantic calls from the planes, and as those waiting for news show their pictures and share their stories…my heart just breaks.
For the past three days, those of us who are far removed from this have gone through our daily lives. All the trite, petty, simple, unimportant things that we do each day still go on. I spent an hour each day for the past three days making reminder calls for a local business. Good grief, how ridiculous that seems.
I know that we must not just stop living…but I’m feeling so useless.
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan, 1981
posted on September 13, 2001 06:02:25 PM new
You aren't alone in feeling useless. So badly I wish that I could be there, even to just haul away a few buckets full of rubble. There is so little I can do from this end, and although monetary and blood donations and prayers are helpful it just doesn't seem like enough, does it?
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posted on September 13, 2001 07:43:10 PM new
(Forgive any misspelled names, but I am too tired to look up the correct spellings)
The most heart-wrenching interview I saw was on NBC with the CEO of Canner(?) Fitzgerald. His last name is Ludnick(?).
He was devastated by the loss of 700!!! employees. He was so overwhelmed with the loss of so many of his "family" that it wasn't until long into the interview that he mentioned that one of those in the "family" was a member of his real family...his brother.
Mr. Ludnick was late getting to work that morning because he wanted to be with his child on the child's first day of Kindergarten.
