[Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 9/11

[Geri]

For sure, Ed.

Why, we're almost to 3,000 (2,668) additional Americans
who died in this useless occupation of Iraq, not to mention
those numbers of Iraqis and other countries' military . . . . .

Geri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Davie" <edavie at verizon.net>
To: "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 9/11


: And no one seems particularly concerned for those 
: 10s of thousands of innocents in Iraq that have 
: died since our invasion. Especially not the 
: current administration! Seems like a pretty big 
: pay back for 3000 people here.
: Ed
:  ----- Original Message ----- 
:  From: Ron D'Eau Claire
:  To: 'Forest Grove local interests list'
:  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:51 AM
:  Subject: Re: [Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 
: 9/11
: 
: 
:  Thank you Geri (and Bud for the earlier 
: reminder).
: 
:  There's something especially sad for me about 
: observing 9/11 that has little
:  to do with the shock of the horrible loss of 
: life that day, or the horrible
:  way they died. Rather it's about the tens of 
: thousands of other Americans
:  who met similar, unnecessary horrible deaths in 
: 2001 that do not receive
:  similar concern or remembrance. Those were 
: women, mothers, children and men
:  who were literally torn limb-from-limb, burned 
: alive or crushed to death in
:  2001, and similar numbers have been repeated 
: every year before and since.
:  They too left families devastated by the loss of 
: loved ones and
:  breadwinners. Children left behind, often maimed 
: and disfigured who lost
:  parents, brothers, sisters and their security.
: 
:  We don't award them public funds to help the 
: survivors get on with their
:  lives. We don't erect any monuments to their 
: horrible end. We don't even
:  seem to care that we could have prevented their 
: terrible fates. We keep
:  right on doing what we've always done as off 
: those lives mattered not at
:  all. Yet, almost ten such people died for every 
: 9/11 death. About 40,000 in
:  all in 2001 alone.
: 
:  I'm not speaking of those struck by a terrible 
: disease or such calamity. I'm
:  speaking of the innocents who, like those that 
: morning of 9/11 six years
:  ago, were healthy and vital; they going on about 
: their lives like any other
:  day when they were killed or mutilated in a 
: traffic collision.
: 
:  We have the power to prevent almost every one of 
: those. We simply lack the
:  will. What does it say about American society?
: 
:  Let's keep 9/11 in perspective. In spite of the 
: horrible carnage, it was
:  simply a little "bump" in the horror we allow 
: our fellow citizens to suffer
:  every year little more than a brief "tsk-tsk" 
: when we see the news. Unless
:  it was one of our loved ones. Then we're alone 
: in our loss, left to pick up
:  the pieces as best we can with little more than 
: a sympathetic glance from
:  those who know of our tragedy.
: 
:  Ron D'Eau Claire
: 
: 
: 
:  -----Original Message-----
:  From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com 
: [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
:  Behalf Of Geri
:  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:05 AM
:  To: GroveNet
:  Subject: [Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 9/11
: 
: 
:  No, that's not a typo.  There really is a 
: 100-year 9/11 anniversary:
: 
:       http://tinyurl.com/lsvup
: 
:       "A brief history of September 11, 1906: the 
: Birth of Satyagraha
: 
:       "Adapted by NP volunteer Derek Mitchell & 
: NP staff from the writings of
:  Professor Michael Nagler, Professor emeritus and 
: founder of the Peace and
:  Conflict Studies program at University of 
: California, Berkeley.
: 
:       " 'During my half-century of experience, I 
: have not yet come across a
:  situation when I had to say ... that I had no 
: remedy in terms of
:  non-violence.' - Mahatma Gandhi
: 
:       "One hundred years ago a historic meeting 
: took place in Johannesburg,
:  South Africa, that would change human history. . 
: . ."
: 
: 
:  Geri
: 
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