On Sep 11, 2012, at 19:39 , [email protected] wrote: > Nope, not the consulate. No embassy here, it's in Ottawa, our federal > capital. > > The American consulate is a large bunker-like concrete building which has > over the past decade been made even more imposing and secure with huge > concrete bollards around it (to resist truck-bombs methinks). > > No, this was just a house. Why the Stars and Stripes? Dunno. Maybe an > American ex-pat? War resistor (that peace sign in the window looks very > suspicious and communistic)? Or maybe just someone who wants to show > solidarity on this somber day.
We do thank the Canadian controllers and airport folk to allowing 20% or more of all the planes in the air that morning to land and park for a week. Not to mention feeding and transporting the thousands that really weren't where they were supposed to be. Let's hear it for Canada Rail… Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
