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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peach who wrote (6805)	9/13/2001 10:26:42 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7434

Aside from our natural concern about those about us we are fine. About those around us, the concern is considerable. People here have become very serious in all discussions. We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop.....that day (September 11th) I received and sent out several phone calls inquiring about the status of others, pulling over the car as I drove to compare notes with sudden callers. There were high school kids walking across streets oblivious to traffic. Very strange day, these kids were numb or so it appeared. Here in this suburb of NYC there is almost a palpable "something", I do not know how to describe it. I do not know about the rest of the United States; here it's just a sense of being ready to do something. I surprise myself, as I sit here with a flag on my desk. I was draftable during Viet Nam, but the war shut down as it became my turn to go. Have not had a flag around since. Suddenly it's important to me to have one. I have not been reading SI so I do not know the sentiment but for me here in New Jersey the area has been galvanized. Manhattan is twelve or so miles away from me. There appears to be a grim sense of purpose, young and old alike; people are together in spirit in a manner that I've not seen since the 1950's. Norma, I think the near Future shall be an interesting time to be alive.