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To: D. Long who wrote (100115)	6/4/2003 2:04:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

That's something that absolutely horrified me on 911. Some journalist noted on the TV that the towers usually have 10,000 people in them coming to work at that hour. 10,000... they didn't know how many were unaccounted for yet. Horrific. The Wall Street Journal headline for September 12, 2001 (amazing that they even got the paper out since their offices had been destroyed in the attack) read "10,000 Feared Dead" The irony is that the 1993 attack saved many lives in 2001, by motivating everybody who worked in the towers to plan evacuation routes seriously.

To: D. Long who wrote (100115)	6/4/2003 9:20:03 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Some journalist noted on the TV that the towers usually have 10,000 people in them coming to work at that hour. 10,000... Yep.. but there were 50,000 people in those towers back in 1993 when the first bombing attempt was made... That's something that many folks, regrettably, forget about.. The casualty count could have been astronomical.. And can you imagine the public response to the loss of 15-25,000 people who would have likely been trapped in those upper stories? People who would have been jumping out of those windows enmasse? Talk about waking a "sleeping dragon and filling him with a terrible resolve"... Hawk