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To: Rande Is who wrote (9791)	10/20/2001 6:12:26 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Respond to of 23153

Rande, I suppose that's true, but I haven't been on an airplane for a while and my version of public transport is driving my Jeep on the interstate. Like most people (guys, anyway) I have given Flight 93 a thought. What's your risk if you rush a guy with boxcutters? A slashed arm? Well, grab a jacket and do the old Hollywood knife fight deal, wrap it and charge. This is why the boxcutter-WTC transaction was such a one-off deal--it changed the rules of engagement with hijackers--now they know they'll have to kill all the able-bodied AND take the cockpit, a situation which will simply not happen. I had a different situation in the Post Office recently. For the past 4-5 years I have gone to the P.O. with reluctance and viewed the employees ("postal workers" after all) with a jaundiced eye. They seemed to me to be the picture of inefficiency and sloth, and one guy always wore the scowl of the hemorrhoidal. When I went last Tuesday, in the post anthrax era, I saw them in a different light. Despite the risk of handling mail sent by lunatics, they were there, patiently doing their job with some amount of courage, I thought. I used to see Daschle and Gephardt appear on TV and grimace; I don't anymore. We're all in this together, now. _____ Hilary still makes my teeth hurt, however. I don't expect that will change.