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

["DenIT Internet Services [Thijs]" <thijs@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.
>

Allthough I am from Europe, the Netherlands, and I have fairly little to
worry about, my thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to all those
involved. I hope taht everybody I know and have met through this list are
ok.

> > 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.
>

We in the Netherlands, or at least me personally haven't heard anything
about this truck. Now that I know of it I feel even more unsecure. To think
that these kind of actions are (apperantly) reasonable easy to take... It
sends shivers through my spine.

> > 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.
>

Not so long ago I was on the East Coast, San Francisco to be exact. My
cousin and his friends live there. I hope for their sake that this is over,
but I fear the opposite. My cousin was bound to come to the Netherlands in a
week. He cancelled all his plans and decided to stay. My prayers go out to
him.

> > 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.
>

In not so many words, but with the same exact thought I second that. I hope
every little bit of help, be it mentally or physically helps the victims,
and their relatives.

> > 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
>

With regards,

Thijs Boonstra
Amsterdam, the Netherlands