Re: [cobalt-users] OT: Hoping you guys are okay

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> Please excuse the off-topic post.
> In light of today's events I'd just like to say I hope and pray that
> everyone in our little community here on the list is all right.

Speaking for myself, I'd say your thoughts and prayers are very much
appreciated by all of us, Carrie.  Please see my response to Jonothon as
well.

> My true fear and horror is the nagging feeling that this is not over;
> that our prompt security measures did nothing more than delay more
> planned attacks - and that these attacks will continue as the
> security measures are lifted.

I have the same fear.  Until about three hours ago (note I'm writing
this at 2:13 PDT on Wednesday morning and that I haven't slept since
6:00 am on Wednesday when I first heard the news of what was then the
first attack on the World Trade Center.

> (Such as the truck filled with
> explosives that they've just found on the George Washington
> bridge, where the drivers were planning on blowing up the
> bridge but were stopped when all bridges were closed.)

I felt a chill of horror through me when I heard about that Truck. 
Years ago I took the bridge almost every day.

> I cannot get the thought out of my head that the East Coast
> was the only target in this massive attack - if there were
> 5 attacks planned, I fear there were 20.

Like you, I still feel more were planned.  I know there was a lot of
effort in the planning; in fact to several people I made many of the
same points Dan Rather (whose commentary I felt was most professional)
did, before he made them.

> So everyone please PLEASE be careful tomorrow, and be alert.
> Especially those of you in high-profile cities and those of you
> living in or near US occupied bases and embassies around the world.

A friend of mine, until recently, was head of security for March Air
Force Base (now March Air Reserve Base) just south of Riverside,
California.  He was out all day yesterday and through the evening, and I
can only guess he may have been called back in.  The base, a major part
of the Gulf War campaign, and many others since WWII, is about five
miles south of my home.  I cancelled a business trip to Torrance/Redondo
Beach yesterday, because the spector of what was occurring would have
kept me and the gentleman whom I was visiting from concentrating on our
business.

> My heart goes out to everyone with friends and family affected
> by this (though we all as a nation were affected... "for whom the
> bell tolls"), and I hope that everyone is all right.

Carrie, and others, my heartfelt sympathy and condolences go out to all
of the list-readers affected, and to the entire Sun/Cobalt family.  Sun
Micro Systems leased two full floors in the World Trade Center.  My
prayers and thoughts are with you.

> If you have a flag, now is the time to fly it proudly - show the
> world that we will not be diminished.

Certainly the best of your "siglines".  Surely this one wasn't just
random.

Jeff

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