Thanks Willem-Jan. This is such a terrible tragedy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willem-Jan Markerink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: EOS Tragedy
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>
> Dear list-member friends,
>
> My heart cries.
>
> Deep condoleances to those who are hit by this tragedy, directly or
> indirectly. My thoughts are especially with those hundreds of fire-
> and policemen who gave their life in an effort to save
> others....they, of all people, must have known what horrible fate
> was hovering above them, as the blackest possible worst-case
> scenario.
>
> These are not mere local acts of terror, these are acts of terror
> against freedom & democracy, as our highest values of humanity &
> civilisation.
> Any justification is a justification against life itself.
>
> It's in days like this that I see a striking resemblance between
> democracy and love, or even life itself....neither can function
> properly if one tries to shield them against all possible
> evil, and exclude all possible risks....it's their very vulnerability
> that makes them worthwile.
> In that context the saying 'things that don't kill us, make us
> stronger' has reached the highest possible level, by replacing 'us'
> with 'democracy'.
> In respect for those who lost their life or loved ones, let that be
> the spirit in which to honor them.
>
> It's also in days like this that I look at my error-logs
> differently....as with a few catastrophies before, I must wonder
> whether new bouncing accounts are just mere coincidence, or a direct
> result of a member dissappearing because of local disaster. And there
> is no way for me to ever find out.
>
> Let me end with words spoken centuries ago:
>
> "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
> --Thomas Jefferson
>
>
> PS: please please leave the OT discussion out of this....if this list
> can linder the pain & sorrow, if only 1 promille, then it served its
> social function. Be it through non-EOS posts like this, or EOS posts
> as a form of distraction. There is too much hate in this world,
> please let this list be that one rare safe-heaven of peace.
>
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>
> PPPS: ignore the multiple copies, we are working on the next version
> of Majordomo. If you think 60 copies are bad, imagine 10 or 20
> bouncing accounts, creating 600 or 1200 error-messages in my
> admin-mailbox.
>
> PPPPS: thanx to MI'tje for the inspiration for this message....I
> wanted to write this message earlier, but yesterday I could only
> silently read and watch the horror unfold itself in the various
> media. Where spoken words fail, typed words can hardly replace them.
>
> Your listowner, from the Netherlands.
>
> (had we not sold NewAmsterdam back then, the WTC would have been
> standing on Dutch soil, which makes the connection even stronger)
>
>
> --
> Bye,
>
> Willem-Jan Markerink
>
> The desire to understand
> is sometimes far less intelligent than
> the inability to understand
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