what a lousy way to get a day off
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 07:57 AM PST
Topic News


I showed up at work today at the mall...slightly late, but no matter. I passed truckstops that were packed with cops and trucks, and as I got nearer the mall, I noticed military vehicles, as many as thirty per installment parked along I-5. How bizarre I thought...
As I was unlocking the front door, a simon mall employee walked up and said "uh, ma'am, did you know that we're closed today?"
"No, why is that?"
"Oh, I don't know, corporate is closing all the simon facilities for today"
I was a little confused, but thought, HEY! Free day off! I went inside to voicemail my DM that we would be closed, and call the 10:00 shift and catch him before he left. I then called the closing manager Wendi. Her response to the mall being closed was "Oh, thank GOD! I was hoping it would be." I questioned her strange response and she said "didn't you watch the news this morning?"
No, I had gotten up, straight to the shower, then walked my dog and gone straight to work, R.E.M blasting all the way. No tv news, no radio news...just R.E.M "Document"....ironic enough before I got out, "it's the end of the world as we know it" had just ended.
Well, I don't feel fine.
"The Twin City Towers are GONE, laurie. Half the Pentagon is collapsed. It's like pearl harbor. Didn't you hear?"
I was stunned. She told me what the radios and tv's had been blaring all morning. Four hijacked planes carrying civilian passengers by unknown terrorists. Two FLEW INTO the World Trade Center, which shortly after collapsed, one dived into the Pentagon, and another crashed near Pitsburg. First major attack on U.S. soil since the revolutionary war.
I don't know how I feel right now. I'm scared, worried, horrified, disgusted, angry.
I listend to an impromptu Tom Leykis broadcast (he's been on all morning, taking a break, then back from 3-7)
Some people called in and were blaming the middle east (of course), blaming foreign immigrants (of course) etc. This almost worries me more. This is what put asian americans in interrment camps in WWII (as he pointed out several times)
People are screaming war.
Against who? How can you declare war on an unknown enemy? How can you declare war on a country that unknowingly harbored, but does not endorse, support, condone, nor keep these wretched murderes safe?
It goes two ways.
If it's the actions of a country, then we go to war. We have to. BUt how many more lives of civilians will be lost to pay for those lost here by the actions of sick sick people? What will that accomplish?
Or, it's a terrorist group. Not a country. How do we FIND these people? How do we deal with them if we DO find them? We know that any sort of action will bring even more severe reprocussions from sympathetic terrorist groups.
What is worse is the sheer precision and timing of the attack. Four planes, four different airports.....as sickening as it sounds, it reeks of an inside job. Somehow.
This is scary. This is sad. This is history.
This is our lives for the next 6-12 months.
How do we deal with this? A tragedy of this magnatude? America will never be the same...end of story. Nothing of the like has been seen, and hopefully will never be seen again. It was on LIVE TV NEWS as they covered the first shaky moments when the first airplane hit and nobody knew what was happening. They had their cameras on the crater in the top floors, the fires, when on the screen came a second airplane, which arched around and deliberately collided with the second building. Then the two collapsed.
The home video of the explosion, of the collapse, people falling, flying, JUMPING to their deaths.
We are 3000 miles away...but this is an attack that has echoed around the world and back...and we are at ground zero.
What can you do short of busting out there and digging out any unlikely survivors?
Please, all of you elligable, call 1-800-give-life
Medical help and most of all blood supplies are desperately needed. It's the smallest thing you can do that will have the biggest impact.
I intend to do so...I feel in a time like this, something so small should be expected of us to do without flinching an eye.

If anyone here has family, friends, associates that may have been caught in this tragedy, I'm sure msn.com has hotlines and info lines to find out if you knew someone on one of those flights, or in the new york area. I hope my hardest that you do not.

How do we deal with this? What do we do?
It's so horrible to feel so helpless, so unprotected, and so utterly helpless. It makes one wonder when we are next...
We never saw THIS one coming...what's to keep us from being blindsided yet again....

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