[BNW] Fwd: [zSH] I had to put this into words.

[David Fryer <badsign_98@yahoo.com>]

--- GilrenMan@aol.com wrote:
> To: zSH@yahoogroups.com,
> projectgladiator@yahoogroups.com
> From: GilrenMan@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:23:39 EDT
> Reply-to: zSH@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [zSH] I had to put this into words.
> 
> If you're easily upset, read no further. But this is
> something I had to put 
> into words.
> 
> 
> 
> There are sights that will change your entire life.
> 
> This morning, I boarded my train and went to
> Manhattan to go to work. My 
> train goes underground in Brooklyn, until going over
> one of the bridges into 
> Manhattan.
> 
> Yesterday, I came home on the train, and Manhattan
> was simply a think dense 
> smoke, black as pitch, a blanket over a wounded
> city.
> 
> Today, the towers are gone. Replaced by grey
> bilowing smoke that trails off 
> on the wind like the tail of some ungodly huge
> reptile, curving out over the 
> water. People stopped talking and looked out at the
> sight, as I did. One 
> woman broke down crying. It's a movie scene, and
> people are waiting for the 
> credits to roll.
> 
> Months ago, in a game I narrate caller "Project:
> Gladiator", I did a 
> storyline called "Manhattan Burning". Today, I saw
> the reality.
> 
> It's a tomb here. The streets are still empty of
> cars. People walk, glancing 
> over their shoulders at any loud noise. Downtown is
> closed off, a no man's 
> land. You can still hear the sirens.
> 
> How many women waited last night for husbands who'd
> never come home? How many 
> children huddled in schools, knowing that their
> parents worked in those big 
> buildings? How many people sat at windows last
> night, watching the smoke and 
> flame, knowing that their loved one was somewhere in
> that? How many people 
> woke up this morning to empty beds, empty rooms,
> empty lives?
> 
> We're listening to the radio here. Police missing,
> firefighters missing, no 
> clear way to even tell how many people were killed.
> Warships are off our 
> coasts. Fighter planes fly overhead.
> 
> America at war. I never thought I'd see it in my
> lifetime. I hoped it would 
> never happen. But I hear the sirens. I hear the
> crying. Somewhere in my mind, 
> as if I were there, I hear the screaming.
> 
> We poise on the brink, my friends. We're standing at
> the edge of the chasm, 
> looking down. Cherish what you have, cherish what
> you know. I fear that soon, 
> it will all be memories, treampled under the fires
> of hate, and the drums of 
> war.
> 
> Think of the ones you have, and hold them close.
> Tell them you love them, and 
> remember it always. Remember the brave men and women
> who died to help the 
> poor people of this tragedy. Keep a thought for
> those who are home, those who 
> are never coming home.
> 
> As for me, I have to stop hearing the screaming
> first...
> 
> Jeff
> -no wizard, no hero, just a man
> 


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