RE: RE: RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>]

Title: RE: RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks

I'm glued to CNN right now and online because I can't reach my kids except by email. But people should remember that there are citizens of the US who are quite capable of these kinds of actions, as horrible as that sounds. Oklahoma City? Right now my Canadian/Sudanese/Egyptian kids are sitting scared in a room with their friends (Korean, Irish Catholic, and Jewish). The whole thing is sick.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Mayeda [mailto:Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:54 PM
To: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani; fasterhorses; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: RE: RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks

You are both so right.  My mother relayed to story to us about when my grandfather (from Japan) sat down with his children (born in the U.S.) after the Pearl Harbor attack.  He told them that no matter what, they (my mother’s generation) are U.S. Citizens.  Did not stop the U.S. Government from putting them into internment camps.  But my parents always felt that it was for their own protection too, to protect them from the mass hysteria of Pearl Harbor.  Let us hope that we as a people are more together than that.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Maryanne Stroud Gabbani [mailto:maryanne@ratbusters.net]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:31 PM
To:     fasterhorses; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:        RC:  RE: OT: Terrorist Attacks

Thanks Lif.
I've got two Arab kids that I just finished dropping off at Columbia last
week and they are scared to death. No one should do this sort of thing to
anyone.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
maryanne@ratbusters.net
www.ratbusters.net

-----Original Message-----
From: fasterhorses [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:14 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: OT: Terrorist Attacks




There's going to be a lot of talk about the desire for revenge.  While I am
not going to say anything against dealing quickly and firmly with the people
respoonsible for this attack, I am going to point out that fanning the
flames of world war are just a bigger (much bigger!) version of flaming on
email lists.

It's easy to get out of control.  It's hard to stay in control when loved
ones and friends might be dying or in danger.  Losing control any time - at
the start of an endurance ride or in reaction to this morning's events -
means just what it says.  No control.

I think this is a very important time to be in control.  I personally don't
relish the though of being a victim.  Victims are people who have no
control.  In short, we all need to take deep breaths, settle down more
firmly in the saddle, relax our muscles, flush the adrenaline from our
systems and take control, not lose it.




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