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To: epicure who wrote (90655)	12/4/2004 9:53:29 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 108807

When you come to think of it, it's a body count of everybody on earth, since the presumption is that six degrees of separation are all that separate all of us. I heard from one person who had only one degree of separation -- he knew people who perished on 9/11. If people want to discuss this topic, I sincerely hope it is on the basis of how it affects them, and not a body count. I mentioned the number of bodies in my two degrees only as a salient fact. I was 3000 miles away--no roads in, no roads out. Extreme mountains all around, hard for semi-skilled terrorist pilots to avoid on the way to their target. Yet I worked in a tall building, a federal building. Even though I was probably in the safest place on earth for that moment, my building was locked down and I was sent home to watch the second plane collide on TV. Others in my agency were not so lucky. They were out in the field, not expecting to stay overnight on the rainy rocky beaches of Alaska. Their float planes did not come to take them home. They did not know why they had to spend the night in the rain.