That’s really all I wanted to say.
**((((((((((((((all)))))))))))))))) ** 
I second that. Also, people of New York, Washington DC, and the families of those on the airplanes:
My thoughts and prayers are will you all.
I meant WITH you all.
This has me so upset, I can barely type. I’m dazed, numb, and heartbroken – and know what I’m feeling is only a drop in the bucket to what those closest to this are feeling.
Again, I send my thoughts and prayers to all.
Thank you both. I’m waiting to hear about a friend who was scheduled to be at the Pentagon one day this week-I’m not sure if it was today or not.
I’ve got e-mails sent to his fiancee, but she hasn’t read the e-mail yet I suppose.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. Mine too, go to the dead, the injured, their families, and the country.
Thanks, daffodil.
There’s a similar thread in MPSIMS–where this may really belong too–but right now Net traffic is jammed. It took 10 minutes to just move a thread from GQ.
Four of our mods also live in New York.
Still live, by all that’s merciful. But two of them were damned close to ground zero and Alpha–second day on the job–is being called in to help identify the dead.
We’re scrambling to cover but routine housework may go begging for a while.
I’m leaving this open–and here–because the world can use all the decency and compassion it can find.
Veb
I was asleep. Imagine how overjoyed I was to wake up and see the WTC collapsing.
I have not felt like myself today. At all. It’s a feeling I don’t like.
Down Under Dopers are truly saddened and thinking of you over there.
Right now I don’t believe there’s an over there, here or anywhere.
There are only people.
Veb
I am so sorry. My thoughts go out to all who’ve been affected by this.
Sad. Angry. Helpless.
Those are the only feelings I know right now. They all suck.
I was born on Long Island, not too far away from Manhattan. I feel shock, anger, sorrow, and some emotions words simply can’t describe. My thoughts go out to all who have been killed or injured today and their loved ones. This is a dark, dark day for everyone and Jay Leno isn’t on to cheer us up.
Or even Letterman. But even they couldn’t cheer most of us up. Changing the subject: I mean this in no way to be insensitive, but I sincerely hope that all that is “New York” won’t be lost. I know that when I was a kid, I looked at New York as a place where you could just lose yourself in the culture and the fast paced lifestyle. It just seemed like a magical place to me, and I hope that the spirit and ambiance of the area isn’t lost. I hope that we won’t let some miscreant’s actions let us think of New York just in a somber light.
Thank you Veb for keeping this open.
I posted a new thread without checking first for similar ones.
I agree that you can use all the symphaty and emphaty in the world.
Still thinking about you all. ((((((((Americans)))))))))
I couldn’t believe it at first, I know I live many miles away, but here in Ireland we are feeling your pain also.
I don’t know what anyone can say to the people most affected by this tragedy, I imagine no words can console you, or even begin to describe the horror you have faced lately.
But please, in spite of all your ill-feelings toward whoever you may think has perpetrated these dispicable acts on the world, do not rush to any rash actions.
If you lash out with violence, this will only further the aims of the terrorist groupings who have committed these terrible heinous acts, they want the civilised world to go to war, they want to destroy peace.
They WILL be caught, and punished, but please not by death, that will make them Martyrs, and hero’s in the eyes of their supporters.
Once again I express my condolences to all people affected by these awful and tragic acts.
I saw the whole thing as it happened on the BBC news here in London. Until last month I was working for a company with its HQ in the south tower, so I’ve been expecting bad news during the past couple of days about how many of my friends were dead.
Tuesday afternoon I had to visit my mother in Liverpool and just got back to London a couple of hours ago. These two days have been pretty tough, but fortunately the e-mails waiting for me from co-workers in the London office have contained mostly good news.
So to anyone who got bad news during these last couple of days, I feel very, very sorry for you.