Terrorist Attacks

["Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>]

Maryanne:

Are your kids OK? How far is Columbia U from downtown?  Do they have 
someplace outside of NYC that they could go to if they needed to?  I think 
that all American's are terrified at this point.  This is not something that 
we are used to.

Carolyn Burgess


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: "Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>,        "fasterhorses" 
<fasterhorses@gilanet.com>, <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Subject: RC:  RE: RE: RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:12:21 -0400

RE: RE: OT: Terrorist AttacksI'm glued to CNN right now and online because I
can't reach my kids except by email. But people should remember that there
are citizens of the US who are quite capable of these kinds of actions, as
horrible as that sounds. Oklahoma City? Right now my
Canadian/Sudanese/Egyptian kids are sitting scared in a room with their
friends (Korean, Irish Catholic, and Jewish). The whole thing is sick.
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Kathy Mayeda [mailto:Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com]
   Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:54 PM
   To: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani; fasterhorses; ridecamp@endurance.net
   Subject: RC: RE: RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks


   You are both so right.  My mother relayed to story to us about when my
grandfather (from Japan) sat down with his children (born in the U.S.) after
the Pearl Harbor attack.  He told them that no matter what, they (my mother’
s generation) are U.S. Citizens.  Did not stop the U.S. Government from
putting them into internment camps.  But my parents always felt that it was
for their own protection too, to protect them from the mass hysteria of
Pearl Harbor.  Let us hope that we as a people are more together than that.

   K.

       -----Original Message-----
       From:   Maryanne Stroud Gabbani [mailto:maryanne@ratbusters.net]
       Sent:   Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:31 PM
       To:     fasterhorses; ridecamp@endurance.net
       Subject:        RC:  RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks

       Thanks Lif.
       I've got two Arab kids that I just finished dropping off at Columbia
last
       week and they are scared to death. No one should do this sort of 
thing
to
       anyone.

       Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
       Cairo, Egypt
       maryanne@ratbusters.net
       www.ratbusters.net

       -----Original Message-----
       From: fasterhorses [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
       Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:14 PM
       To: ridecamp@endurance.net
       Subject: RC: OT: Terrorist Attacks



       There's going to be a lot of talk about the desire for revenge.  
While
I am
       not going to say anything against dealing quickly and firmly with the
people
       respoonsible for this attack, I am going to point out that fanning 
the
       flames of world war are just a bigger (much bigger!) version of
flaming on
       email lists.

       It's easy to get out of control.  It's hard to stay in control when
loved
       ones and friends might be dying or in danger.  Losing control any
time - at
       the start of an endurance ride or in reaction to this morning's
events -
       means just what it says.  No control.

       I think this is a very important time to be in control.  I personally
don't
       relish the though of being a victim.  Victims are people who have no
       control.  In short, we all need to take deep breaths, settle down 
more
       firmly in the saddle, relax our muscles, flush the adrenaline from 
our
       systems and take control, not lose it.



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