My friend, Mike, is in the US Coast Guard. Since the beginning of September, he has been in the Caribbean chasing down drug runners. The only news of the attack he has gotten has been through emails and what his superiors have told him. I would like to pass on some of the more positive aspects of the aftermath.
Do any dopers have a current count of the amount of money people have donated to help the victims and the families?
Anything along those lines would be most appreciated.
if this makes us get serious about terrorist threats, then maybe we will save millions of lives at the cost of 5 or 6 thousand.
I’m sure if OBL had had a nuke, he would have used it in NYC or Wash DC. Really, this was a low-tech attack and with all the nukes not accounted for in the former USSR states . . . let’s hope military action can keep these terrorists in check (or preferrably in the ground).
Except for the part about the dollar amount of donations, the question is too open-ended for GQ. I direct all other comments along this line to the IMHO thread List some positive things that may come out of this and ask that this thread be limited to discussing the amount of donations.
has as running tally of online donations to the Red Cross disaster relief efforts.
as of this writing, it’s over $20 million.
I made a modest donation there the other day, then went back to reload the page to see if my donation was immediately reflected. Boy, was it ever. The page had gone up by about $30,000 in a couple minutes (most of that wasn’t me!).
I kept reloading the page thru the afternoon, and that rate of donations was pretty consistant - on the order of hundred of thousands of dollars per hour.
it’s slowed down a bit now. but for this geek, that little changing number on a web page was rather moving.