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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 :-) 51-39-36 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? > Donate cash, emergency relief information > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn