[Sca-cooks] tribute OT

[Glenda Robinson]

You also have to remember that up to 100 British citizens are still missing
in that rubble, so a show of support is definitely important to the British
people. There are also 90ish Australians on the missing/dead list - our PM
said yesterday that if they're all gone, it's Australia's biggest peace-time
tragedy in human loss terms - he was giving a news conference 4 blocks from
the Pentagon when it was hit, so that brings it very close to home for him.

Nearly all the people from Australia's current largest tragedy (the
Granville Train Disaster) came from my area - a full express commuter train
derailed and brought down a bridge on top of itself in 1977, killing 83, and
we still feel the loss as a community. It's not going to be an easy time for
New Yorkers.

Glenda.

Food related topic - I made the Sekanjaban recipe up, mainly, I suppose, in
support of the middle eastern people who are having problems because of a
handful of extremists. My husband and myself love it, but the kids don't! A
good thing indeed.

----- Original Message -----
> Lucrezia said:
> > > The Changing of the Guard at
> > > Buckingham Palace included the American National Anthem and a two
minute
> > > silence....the first time EVER.
> >         This has me completely staggered.  WOW.  Don't think that
Americans
> > will not
> >         have any idea what a huge tribute this is.
> >
> > At the memorial service in St Paul's, the American National Anthem was
> > played before the British National Anthem, as suggested by the Queen.
> > Another tribute of the highest order.
>
> I am touched by this show of support and solidarity by the British.
> Even more so because the American National Anthem (the Star Spangled
> Banner) was written by an American prisoner observing the British
> assualt on an American fort during the War of 1812. Things have
> certainly changed in the last two centuries.
>
> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net