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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (8307)	9/12/2001 9:36:12 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

Someone just suggested shorting security stocks. Here's an email I just received from my cousin to humanize it for you. "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... 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.... 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