The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38843 Message #548122
Posted By: SINSULL
12-Sep-01 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: I can't sleep
Subject: RE: I can't sleep
I got some sleep but I am weary. Strange, but when this all started yesterday I expected the usual NY bashing. You know "Only 10,000. Couldn't they the manage the Empire State Building, a few tunnels, and Gracie Mansion too." Terrible feelings of isolation.
Thank you all for all the support. Today, I have to do something to feel useful. Blood donation, if I can find my card and baking cookies for the fire department.
I keep trying to understand the anger and hatred that could motivate someone to do this. Hundreds of people are wandering around Manhattan with pictures of loved ones who are missing, begging for help finding them. When I look from our roof at lower Manahattan, I see Hiroshima. And I try to imagine the hatred and anger that could have motivated that.
It is absurd. I know that if given the chance, I could sit down with women from any country in the world, with or without an interpreter, and within minutes being sharing photos of babies, children, homes. We want the same for ourselves and our children. Why can't we get this right?