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To: Mick Mørmøny who wrote (143760)	9/18/2001 9:01:11 PM
From: carl a. mehr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks Mick, This certainly is a nice account that illuminates the problem of building such structures. Why repeat the mistake? Would you also like to defend the closeness of these towers? It seems like they end up knocking out other surrounding buildings when they come crashing down. Also the huge death total of about 5400 is probably small compared to what it would have been if the buildings had been hit at much lower levels. I don't think that people escaped from floors above the impact zone. The 5400+ casualty figure could, from what I understand, easily have been 20,000 or more. Why ask people to work in unsafe buildings? Articles that I have read, have questioned why the towers was allowed to continue operation after the bombing a few years ago. At that time they found out that it was extremely difficult to evacuate the people... carl