Hello Carole,
  From a fellow New Englander, from the
town where the hijackers flew to Boston--which
makes us in Maine all feel very uneasy.
about our own security, as Maine is a quiet
peace-loving land , far from the big cities.
They even slept overnight in one of our motels!!

Love to you,  and thank you for everything you shared.


 Today I am struggling with why anyone
would be so despondent as to turn to
annihilating masses of human lives.

 I know that I feel exhausted, overwhelmed,
scared and saddened by all the deaths,
but I know that the suicide missions
evolved from a background, from a
history.

 I  wish we could bring  quiet and justice
to the world, and talk to one another in
the hope of  all being planetary citizens.

 I might sound too idealistic to some,
but as a VietNam era conscientious
objector and as a pacifist, I know that
there is a cause to this horrible mess
that needs to be addressed.

I heard that Pres. Bush asked for
20 billion dollars.  Will this put a
giant hole in the NIH budget for
research on Parkinson's??

Are there any budget people
reading this who can explain if and
how these two appropriations are related?

Ivan
:-)
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:29:19 -0700 Carole Hercun <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Dear Friends: I do not live in the place which we in
> Connecticut call simply The City, but I live close enough
> to stand on the shores of Sherwood Island State Park and
> see the smoke cloud from the ruins of lower Manhattan.
> Close enough to attend, along with 2 of my 3 sons, N.Y.C.
> colleges . Close enough that the psychiatric hospital where
> I work has set up 24 hour grief counseling for the family
> and friends of the lost ones who worked in The City. For
> the hospital beds we rushed to prepare in the burn units
> and trauma centers in this part of the state are empty. We
> waited but nobody came. We will be filling body bags and
> morgues, not hospital beds. We prepared to treat ravaged
> bodies, but we will treat instead the ravaged minds of
> those left behind.I am a pacifist of long standing. I
> protested our involvement in Viet Nam. The morning of
> 9/11/0l changed me forever. We Americans have been guity of
> arrogance. We looked away from the suffering inflicted in
> other parts of the world by those too inhumane to be
> considered human beings. We were safe. Meanwhile evil
> continued to fester and grow, until it was strong enough to
> reach out and touch us. Evil ignored is evil perpetuated.
> We are arrogant no more...      Carole Hercun
>
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