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To: Michael M who wrote (2055)	9/11/2001 11:12:22 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51752

Why do you ??, a despicable cowardly unknown, call X a b.. ,I can't even say it, when you are NOT even involved in the conversation.

To: Michael M who wrote (2055)	9/12/2001 11:10:44 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51752

Yesterday was a terrible day and it evoked many emotions among us all. X may have been premature in her reaction to the Kabul explosions, but her reaction, if you had stopped to analyze instead of viciously attack it, was one of horror that more innocent lives would be lost and that we, our country, might be responsible for more death. This was not some Olympic broadjump leap to conclusion; the networks were making the same connection and there were many who feared exactly what X rather vividly expressed. It was obvious to us who know her that she was upset and grieving, as are most of us. I am going to give you that same benefit too, because your post was emotional and without thought, and I prefer to think it a result of your grief than your true character. I do hope that you can see the similarities between your behaviors and rethink the fullscale attack that was mounted against X and this thread. It is misdirected-- we have real enemies. It would be more constructive to spend less time saying ugly things about others, calling names, making fun of opposing views, and more time taking the generous step of understanding that we are all fragile at the moment, and that our horror and grief and anger will take different forms. Most of us spent a great deal of time yesterday on the phone frantically calling friends and relatives. The enormity of this means that most of us will be touched in some way by a personal tragedy as well as the national one. I am going to plagiarize this from my husband who spent a very difficult day in his position with one of the airlines. He wrote in a letter to customers- Above all else, we ask you to join with us in mourning for all of those who have lost their lives and, in a larger sense, for that portion of our humanity that each of us loses as a result of an event such as this one. I believe that we would do more honor to our grieving and dead, and to the ideals of our country, by refraining from the type of posting that seems to be proliferating now that the first shock is wearing off. Let's not lose any more of our own humanity.