>Here is another letter from a man who has lost loved ones, which may
>interest you.
>
>>9/13/01
>>
>>Across America Tonight ...
>>
>>Dear Friends,
>>
>>I am on the road tonight, the only way to get out of L.A. and back home to
>>our daughter and our friends in New York City.
>>
>>The sorrow and anger builds across America. Talk radio tonight was filled
>>with calls for carpet-bombing every Arab country. Many want revenge, blood.
>>But a surprising number of people have called for us to not add to the
>>killing of more innocent humans. The rest stops and the convenience stores
>>along the way were filled with quiet, solemn people, many of whom, like us,
>>can get home no other way than by this four-day trip.
>>
>>Our daughter is fine, mostly frightened by my desire to fly home to her
>>rather than drive. Once again, I was outvoted 2 to 1. This is nothing new.
>>
>>We have learned of more people we know who have lost their lives. Bill
>>Weems, who worked as a line producer for us this year, was on the flight
>>from Boston that crashed into the World Trade Center. He was such a sweet
>>and decent soul. Such senseless madness.
>>
>>The children of New York who are orphaned tonight ... what do we say or do?
>>I will do my part -- anything, something -- as soon as I get to New York.
>>But it will never be enough.
>>
>>The firefighters of New York: they are on every other block, every day, and
>>they are your best neighbors. Sitting out on the sidewalks in front of the
>>fire stations, a good word and a kind smile to all who pass ... now, 350+
>>of them gone, having risked their lives to save the victims of a carnage
>>they soon became part of.
>>
>>A good friend from Flint is a clerical worker at the Pentagon. I have heard
>>no word about her condition. I have tried contacting her family to no
>>avail. Her son, Malcolm, worked on our show. I cannot find him. I keep
>>getting tears in my eyes. Once she gave me a tour of the Pentagon, took me
>>everywhere, and got such a kick out of taking me around this building I
>>used to march on. Will our mutual friends who know Barbara, and know how
>>she is, please write me? Please.
>>
>>The man who occupies the White House cried today. Good. Keep crying, Mr.
>>Bush. The more you cry, the less you will go to that dark side in all
>>humans where anger rages to a point where we want to blindly kill. Your
>>dad's and Reagan's old cronies -- Eagleberger, Baker, Schultz -- are all
>>calling for you to bomb first and ask questions later. You must NOT do
>>this. If only because you do not want to stoop to these mass murderers'
>>level. Yes, find out who did it. Yes, see that they NEVER do it again.
>>
>>But GET A GRIP, man. "Declare war?" War against whom? One guy in the desert
>>whom we can never seem to find? Are our leaders telling us that the most
>>powerful country on earth cannot dispose of one sick evil f---wad of a guy?
>>Because if that is what you are telling us, then we are truly screwed. If
>>you are unable to take out this lone ZZ Top wannabe, what on earth would
>>you do for us if we were attacked by a nation of millions? For chrissakes,
>>call the Israelis and have them do that thing they do when they want to get
>>their man! We pay them enough billions each year, I am SURE they would be
>>happy to accommodate your request.
>>
>>But I beg you, Mr. Bush, stay with the tears. Go today to comfort the
>>wounded of New York. Tell the mayor, a guy most of us have not liked, that
>>he is doing an incredible job, keeping the spirits of everyone up as high
>>as they can be at this moment. Being there for a city I believe he loves,
>>his own cancer still with him, he goes beyond the call of duty.
>>
>>But do not declare war and massacre more innocents. After bin Laden's
>>previous act of terror, our last elected president went and bombed what he
>>said was "bin Laden's camp" in Afghanistan -- but instead just killed
>>civilians. Then he bombed a factory in the Sudan, saying it was "making
>>chemical weapons." It turned out to be making aspirin. Innocent people
>>murdered by our Air Force.
>>
>>Back in May, you gave the Taliban in Afghanistan $48 million dollars of our
>>tax money. No free nation on earth would give them a cent, but you gave
>>them a gift of $48 million because they said they had "banned all drugs."
>>
>>Because your drug war was more important than the actual war the Taliban
>>had inflicted on its own people, you helped to fund the regime who had
>>given refuge to the very man you now say is responsible for killing my
>>friend on that plane and for killing the friends of families of thousands
>>and thousands of people. How dare you talk about more killing now! Shame!
>>Shame! Shame! Explain your actions in support of the Taliban! Tell us why
>>your father and his partner Mr. Reagan trained Mr. bin Laden in how to be a
>>terrorist!
>>
>>Am I angry? You bet I am. I am an American citizen, and my leaders have
>>taken my money to fund mass murder. And now my friends have paid the price
>>with their lives.
>>
>>Keep crying, Mr. Bush. Keep running to Omaha or wherever it is you go while
>>others die, just as you ran during Vietnam while claiming to be "on duty"
>>in the Air National Guard. Nine boys from my high school died in that
>>miserable war. And now you are asking for "unity" so you can start another
>>one? Do not insult me or my country like this!
>>
>>Yes, I, too, will be in church at noon today, on this national day of
>>mourning. I will pray for you, and us, and the children of New York, and
>>the children of this sad and ugly world ...
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>Michael Moore
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>>www.michaelmoore.com
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