[Sca-cooks] we do care

[Sue Clemenger]

Please don't be offended, Vara.  My guess is, having seen so much
"patriotic" mail, etc., going through my mailboxes this past week, is
that a lot of folk here in the U.S. are reaching for comfort and
solidarity in any way they can find, without always taking time to think
through all of the implications [oh, goodness, a plane just flew
overhead...it's the first one I've seen in a week].  It has definitely
occured to me, for one, that I wonder how this is how it feels for
people in Bosnia? or Ireland? in all the other places in our world beset
by violence in hate? As a species, we need to figure out how to end this
sh*t we've been inflicting on our brothers and sisters for _way_ too
d at mned long....[sorry for the curse words, but I feel that strongly]
--Maire, very glad to have an international "family" right now.....

Hrolf Douglasson wrote:
>
> We also are in mourning...this was an attack which could have happened
> anywhere. Our f;ags are at half mast. The Changing of the Guard at
> Buckingham Palace included the American National Anthum and a two minute
> silence....the first time EVER.
> there will be a 3 min silence accross europe today. There are people in this
> counrty whe are still waiting to hear from loved ones and those who know
> that they are dead.
> I for one am hurt by the comments from the news paper even if written
> in1973. They have no place in our world now.
> Unfortunately we are used to terrorist attacks and threats.