I tried to send the following to the news departments of NBC, CBS and ABC. In each case, I got the old "Never heard of them" from AOL.

Has it not occurred to someone, that the longer you continue your "single subject programming", the more the enemy will have succeeded in bringing us to our knees.

When the President, tuesday afternoon, said, "Business as Usual", you should have done just that. Instead you continue to show bereaved relatives, frustrated rescue operations and news reports that show damage to ourselves and our cities. We see the same films of the towers being struck and later the two buildings crumbling to the ground.

The Mother Country (U.K.) London and Coventry, in particular suffered devestation the likes of which most of you couldn't possibly imagine. Coventry was literally wiped completely off the face of the world

Every time you show the same scenes, over and over again, I envision our terrorist enemies jumping up and down with joy and elation, congratulating eachother on having parallyzed the most powerfull nation the world has ever seen.

Thank you, "Mother" and our German friends for your show of solidarity.

Nothing has happened since Tuesday afternoon that couldn't have waited for the regularly sheduled News programs.

You tell children that they "Don't feel as safe anymore" and then you ask them how they feel about all this. Then you get the reply that you expected, children telling you about feelings that YOU originated in the first place

I was 12 years old on Dec. 7th, 1941. I remember it as if it happened yesterday. The feeling of "not being safe anymore" never occurred to me or anyone that I knew in my age bracket. Do you want to know how we felt? We were damned angry, and I, for one,knew that the Japanese couldn't possibly win and that they had just taken on the strongest industrialized nation in the world.

Would you like to know how I knew this?

I knew this for a certainty, because, right after the announcement, when the radio station went back to the Brooklyn Dodgers football game that I'd been listening to,My Dad sadly shook his head and said, "They can't possibly win, They've just attacked the strongest industrialized nation in the world".

I want to resist saying, "Get your heads out of your collective asses, and realize that you've just handed our enemies a tremendous victory". But, I don't think I can.

Very truly yours

Mr. Jody Gibson.


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To our German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and (hopefully) Chinese friends:
It tookSincerely yours me a long time to finally realize that even in the closest knit families, we sometimes get into scraps. But, when the smoke clears,we can become even closer with a little bit of understanding.

Sincerely yours

Jody Gibson.