A Great Sadness

**Cougie Wechsler** · 09-11-2001, 11:13 AM

Thelmalu99 I am so glad that you are okay.

**Dixieland Dancer** · 09-11-2001, 11:16 AM

I had not heard of a bomb on a plane in Cleveland. I do believe the plane that crashed outside of Pittsburgh was from Cleveland going to Chicago. It is still sketchy.

Souraya,
Hopefully our country will not retaliate without knowing for sure who is responsible. We were quick to think it was a place in the Middle East that caused the terrorist attack on the Oklahoma Federal Building when it was one of our own. I will pray for all our military being deployed. Hopefully Andrew is not among them. I know my son was on gaurd to be deployed before this even happened so I am sure he is gone already. We can not reach him.

This is too difficult to imagine and only God knows for sure how this will play out.

**wolflady** · 09-11-2001, 11:21 AM

This is just sick!! Why is there so much hatred in the world?? It's wierd, because we're all at work here in our little office, but I don't think many people are really motivated to work on our little application when stuff like this is going on. I hardly even know what to do with myself today!! This is truely a monumentous disaster today in America. My heart goes out to all those families affected by this horrible disaster. They are in my thoughts and prayers....

**aly** · 09-11-2001, 11:26 AM

Is this true that the Palestineans are celebrating??

**aly** · 09-11-2001, 11:46 AM

Spencer, can you post as soon as you find out where it crashed? I'm trying to follow all this news while calling my family and miss things.

**4 feline house** · 09-11-2001, 11:46 AM

Fifteen minutes after our prayer meeting at work, where it was announced we were allowed to go home, we had another meeting, where we were required to go home. The combination fo the remote danger (highrise in a major city) and the fact that nothing was getting done anyway, they decided to close. This was about 10:30. The Federal Building and most of the highrises were being volunatarily evacuated, and the streets were quite crowded considering it was no longer rush hour but not yet lunch hour. The mid-day light rail was more crowded than a rush-hour train. Some people on the radio had likened the shock to the American people to the day Kennedy was shot, and I though of that as the train passed the school book depository and passed over the grassy knoll. There were so many people leaving downtown that there was an extra suburban train scheduled, and it was full.

We Americans have always had a sense of security, clearly false. I wonder how anything this massive could have been undertaken with absolutely no warning. Where was the CIA?

On the way home, a woman noticed a bag left on the train. She was very nervous. We all chuckled with her, noting that any other day it would have been clearly a bag of trash to be disgusted at. She said she thought her days of suspecting everything were over when she left Ireland. Welcome to the real world, America.

I live two miles from one of the country's busiest airports. It is eerily silent today, no jets roaring overhead as usual.

I wondered where in the world all those planes were going to land. I half expected to see a 747 in my parking lot when I pulled up! Thank you, Canada!

A recurrent theme in my Sunday School class has been how much America has been turning away from God over the last decades. Now we will turn to God, because He is the only One who can be turned to at devastating times like this.

**Corinna** · 09-11-2001, 11:56 AM

I made the mistake of going into work forgetting that we have lots of guest from all over the world. no one could leave if on planes. So much scrambling to re schedule ins and outs and where some of our in coming are and if we can send our bus suttles to gather them up. Total mad house in our offices. We are a smaller resort and time share facilaty. I can't even imagine if you work at a larger place prayers for all America and thanks to all countries who are sending their support.
Have heard that all of our whitehouse peolpe from MOntana are safe. Hope all other states are hearing the same.
Karen Maybe we could set a time where in all time zones we could have a mass prayer as one body?

**Paul** · 09-11-2001, 12:05 PM

Aly, I have not seen reports of anyone anywhere in the world celebrating this attack.

**Cougie Wechsler** · 09-11-2001, 12:08 PM

Remember to hug your loved ones, tell them you love them. Hug your fur babies today.

**Corinna** · 09-11-2001, 12:11 PM

Paul in parts of Palistine the streets were full of people celebrating sick huh? We need to get out of that part of the world.

**Corinna** · 09-11-2001, 12:14 PM

Is anyone on the pet talk have rescue or cadaver dogs ? are you packing to head out if so please let us know so we can pray for you and your teams.

**Gio** · 09-11-2001, 12:14 PM

Aly,

I'm still at work but I have most of my family glued to the television to keep me updated. There have been a few lunatics sort of cheering but the news report that the majority is in deep shock to what happened. And I would put them in the same league as those lowlife monsters who even contemplated to commit something like this. I'm sure that there are thousands of ordinary people everywhere who are just as horrified as we are (this is at least what I hope - sometimes it is so hard to have faith in the human race).

**3-greys-and-a-mutt** · 09-11-2001, 12:18 PM

Does anyone know a good website with audio/video webstream?

**4 feline house** · 09-11-2001, 12:35 PM

I have both CNN and MSNBC up now, but it will probably be a while before any more real news occurs. They both are just basically updating their pictures.