I post this from my cousin in hopes you change your title out of respect for the dead and the country.
"Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you so much for your many calls and e-mails inquiring about Bruce. He
is still home as lower Manhattan is closed to everyone but essential
rescue/recovery personnel. As of this morning, the World Financial Center is
on fire....Bruce works in building 2 of that 4 building complex. We don't
know if it is his building which is on fire, but he won't be back downtown
for a while probably. (He is very sorry he didn't bring his laptop home!)
Several Deloitte audit people have not been heard from yet, and may have been
across the street at the towers doing Morgan Stanley audit work...
Bruce is okay, but didn't get a great nights sleep. The images of people
jumping are terrible. So far I have a friend, Lynn Retik, from Weston, MA who
lost her son David on the Boston flight into one of the towers. Locally, I
have a friend, Pat Coppo, whose husband Joe is missing, another close friend
Margaret Simon whose brother-in-law, Michael Simon, is missing (her poignant
message pasted below, and sadly, a friend Mary Fetchet, whose son Brad is
missing (Brad played h.s. football with Mark, was a couple years older and
apparently worked in the towers.) For those willing, I would so appreciate
your joining us in prayer for these families... as well as the larger group
of families impacted. An extraordinary number (250+?) of firefighters have
been lost, and last I heard 70+ policemen were missing. Also please remember
the almost 10,000 emergency workers and volunteers who have such a gruesome
job....
Thanks, also, Matt Norman, for remembering that our Mark has no family
support around him at Syracuse right now while he is not only trying to
process the horror of this whole event, the fear he experienced yesterday
waiting to hear from Bruce, but also dealing with the knowledge that one of
his friends is missing...
My sister Cindy sent statistics on Pearl Harbor showing some 2400 killed.
Local news reports expect our death toll to be even higher than Omaha Beach.
Please continue to pray for God's guidance in an appropriate
military/diplomatic response. How devastated my dad, who spent so much time
at the Pentagon and rests within view of it at Arlington, would have been to
know it was hit.
A sad e-mail received this morning:
Barbara- we still have not heard from Scott's brother, Michael. He worked on
the 105th floor of the North building, at Cantor Fitzgerald, where Pat's
husband worked. We heard last night from the mother of a boy who also worked
there. He called her from his cell phone before the building collapsed that
they were being evacuated to the roof...
God bless each of you,
Barbara |
