Re: Over-reaching effects

[Jerry & Susan Milam <milamj@agtelco.com>]

I want to thank Maryanne for giving us the perspective of probably how most
of the world sees this terrible crime against humanity in our great country.
All God fearing people of the world are abhored by this act of cowardice.
The small minority of Muslims that perpetrate acts such as this do not
represent the majority of their great people. Violence against any innocent
person based on race or religion is totally wrong and wicked. I'm sure there
are those ignorant people who will use any excuse to behave badly in this
situation and for them I pray the true and Living Creator God will protect
all innocents from this kind of violence. We may be totally wrong in our
assumptions that a Muslim extremist is to blame. We will see the evidence as
it sifts out before a watching world. It might be one of our own extremists.

Our nation needs to seek God and ask Him to avenge these deaths justly and
swiftly, so we can be healed and learn from this terrible tragedy that as
the Bible says our lives are but a vapor and we do not know when we will
die. One thing we all know is one day we all will die. We just don't know
when. Everyone in the quiet of his/her own heart must be ready to make that
transition. Those passengers on the planes had no idea they would suddenly
crash into those towers and become a bomb from hell. If they had known, they
would have mobbed the hijackers no matter what kind of weapons they had. The
point is, I could die tonight in an auto accident. I must be ready to meet
my maker. This is a wakeup call for our people. Our nation is rich beyond
measure by the worlds standards, but we can't take our wealth to our graves.
Our priorities need adjusting.

I for one will not be quick to judge another because of his skin color or
spoken language. It's a matter of the heart, not outward appearance.

Susan Milam
Alhambra, Illinois, USA, home of the free and the brave



----- Original Message -----
From: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:41 PM
Subject: RC: Over-reaching effects


> I just got off the phone with my lawyer in New York...couldn't reach my
> children but he said they seemed to be ok but horribly shocked like
everyone
> else. He asked what the reaction in Egypt was and I said that the streets
> were empty last night and everyone is in shock. They also wish the TV
would
> stop showing that stupid footage of the celebration because it is so
> atypical of the reactions. He tells me that they are beginning to pull in
> evidence that perhaps this can be laid at Bin Laden's door. If that is the
> case, I would cheerfully strangle the son of a bitch with my bare hands
for
> what he has done. I don't know however, that I would be happy to see the
> women and children of Afghanistan suffer for what some bloody renegade
Saudi
> has done, when they suffer enough under their own government.
>
> What remains to be seen is the sheer extent of the destruction, not just
of
> human life and property but also of all the records that were held in
those
> buildings. They were, for the most part, financial organisations and
> insurance companies and the like. One can only hope that the records were
> backed up somewhere else. One of the companies that was destroyed was the
> one that carried the life insurance on my late husband that has been tied
up
> in the courts and was to, in part, finance my kids' education. We still
have
> an account with enough to pretty well take care of it, but it may well be
> that the insurance is gone with everything else.
>
> Like I said, it's too small a world for these kinds of actions. We have to
> find a better way to live. I hope cool heads prevail and someone takes
care
> of the guilty party without harming more innocents.
>
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> maryanne@ratbusters.net
> www.ratbusters.net
>
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