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A very bad week

To: KliesECP@aol.com, unclejoe@gateway.net, terhune@worldnet.att.net,
Subject: A very bad week
From: RAWAWA@aol.com
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:07:08 EDT
Please forgive the family newsletter look of this,as this goes out to most of 
my e-mail buds.....We returned home about 3.30 9/14 after driving 12 hours 
through the night from Halifax,Nova Scotia. We were stuck from tuesday after 
the trade center attack forced our plan to land there.After spending 2 nights 
on a mat in the high school gymnasium ("the hotels are full",so where were 
was the crew ?),we got lucky and found a rental car and set a few canadian 
speed records. slept most of the rest of friday,caught up with the bad news 
and found my way down to where  the twin towers used to be on sat. night. As 
i'm a retired NY FD,i have acceptable I.D. and joined the bucket brigade,did 
some exploring,and got to see it all in person . If there is a soul alive 
that has an atom of sympathy for the low-life that could do this 
catastrophe,they shoud've been with me. I hope we do not play by the rules 
this time,as the only way the 3rd world mentality gets the point is the same 
way they did it to us....I had planned to be in Maxton next meet,but today it 
seems very inconsequential..maybe i'll feel different next week..But i'll 
still have lost 300 family members and 5,000 nieghbors......i've never been 
so tired in my life,but i'm here with my wife and children... and the phone 
calls and e-mails from all over inquiring about us are rejuvenating,while 
bittersweet considering the reason.....As i write this,my son,who is an 
active NY Firefighter,is in the crater,digging. I have no good news or do i 
expect a chance of any,but we will try until we are no longer allowed 
to..................I'm OK,life should be real easy after this....Thank you 
to all for your prayers and good wishes, it helped,big-time to get us through 
this....Bob Wanner

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