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To: calgal who wrote (95)	2/2/2003 10:38:31 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 627

Thanks for sharing many touching words. And thanks to everyone for expressing your thoughts and prayers. To those who have yet to post here but have been reading this board, I encourage you to write out your thoughts, share your experience. . .tell what you were doing when it happened. Post information you find interesting. Please, encourage your children to express themselves today in a number of ways. Remember how terribly affected you were by the Kennedy assasination, the Challenger explosion or some other tragic event you experienced as a child? They are impressionable. Events like this can be extremely difficult for children to cope with. Talk to them about it. Let them do much of the talking. Have them paint, or illustrate or collect their thoughts about this event. The point is that we as parents must help them through this. Just don't ignore it, hoping it will pass. There is valuable therapy in the act of expression. Rande Is

To: calgal who wrote (95)	2/2/2003 1:00:25 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 627

Countdown Lit up with anticipation We arrive at the launching site The sky is still dark, nearing dawn On the Florida coastline Circling choppers slash the night With roving searchlight beams This magic day when super-science Mingles with the bright stuff of dreams Floodlit in the hazy distance The star of this unearthly show Venting vapours, like the breath Of a sleeping white dragon Crackling speakers, voices tense Resume the final count All systems check, T minus nine As the sun and the drama start to mount The air is charged A humid, motionless mass The crowds and the cameras, The cars full of spectators pass Excitement so thick you could cut it with a knife Technology...high, on the leading edge of life The earth beneath us starts to tremble With the spreading of a low black cloud A thunderous roar shakes the air Like the whole world exploding Scorching blast of golden fire As it slowly leaves the ground Tears away with a mighty force The air is shattered by the awesome sound Like a pillar of cloud The smoke lingers high in the air In fascination With the eyes of the world We stare... Rush