I feel like I would like to share with you a note I received from a dear friend who is a Priest from a parish reasonably close to the WTC. On topic, he is the owner of 2 very much loved Cavaliers. This is what he said....Phyllis << I got into the ground zero area for four or five minutes with a cop friend and believe me what we see on TV is a very small part of the reality. It's devastation. The emergency workers are incredible - you can neither see nor breathe in the area but they're working with a grim determination that I've never seen before. Some are actually injured but they refuse to leave. Fire trucks, ambulances, huge trucks used at construciton sites are sitting there crushed like they were made of aluminum. It's horrible. And then to think that there are thousands and thousands of people dead in that small area! Innocent men, women and children. The Bellevue Chaplains report that the worst part is beginning. Hundreds of people are lining up outside of the Medical Examiner's Office at the hospital looking for news about loved ones. You can see people walking around with photographs of loved ones trying to get some kind of news. I guess that as time goes on these family members could no longer sit at home waiting for news but had to come to the city. It is the same at St. Vincent's Hospital: people are dazed, numb, too exhausted to even cry any more. The fire house east of us on 29th Street has six men still unaccounted for. I saw one figure on the TV that the Fire Department is missing 291 men. Of course, you all probably know that Fr. Judge, the much beloved Franciscan Chaplain for the Fire Department was killed at the scene. Ministering to all this grief will go on for a long, long time I'm afraid. Pray to God that we will find the words and the strength to bring God's comfort. >> ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
