But not quite depressed enough to become immune, nor to completely avoid contemplating the thousands of individual human lives cut short, and the thousands more - the survivors' - horribly transformed. Am I alone in putting myself in the place of the people on those airplanes, or the people they called on their cell phones, or the people in Trade Center elevators who could never have learned what had happened, or the ones on the floors above the crash sites who knew all too well?
*******************************************

Well, I incessantly visualize myself onboard Flight 11, a flight I took to LA for many years. I can't get the increadibly sad and beautiful cellphone calls from Flight 93 or the 100+ WTC floor people out of my mind. Very, very disheartening.

Personally, I haven't perceived an excess of jingoism here on this bbs. No racial or ethnic diatribes or rants, or else I missed 'em. I respect the govt's position that those who harbor terror will suffer the same consequences. I have not seen the forecast, rash "for popular show" action by our leaders. They soberly are saying "get ready" and be prepared for a long march. It is correctly labeled a war against evil. The post cold war illusion that evil was not something in our modern world is irretrievably shattered.

-philw