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2002-01-07

Monday, January 07, 2002 11:45 AM
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I understand this money is to save the airlines, why not help them fight the lawsuits, in the world, things happen, sometimes because we are the cause, sometimes not.



I know the victims were innocent, hence the word victims, and yes much money was send to help NY and Washington recover, but this will set a standard that all acts of terrorism victims will use to obtain money from the government. I know children lost their fathers, mothers, or other close relatives. Are we entering into an age of more and more victims, what happens next time? Or the next? What about those from the federal building in Oklahoma, is their loved ones not as worthy--their life not as valuable or was it just timing?



Americans die on the nations highways at a rate more than those killed in the bombings (CDC, 1997). It is the fifth leading cause of death, are their lives any valuable, where is the money for their family to get on with their lives? Who pays their families millions to carry on, to bury their death, all in silence from media or government? Do they sue the government for highway money; after all, it was there?



Suing has gotten out of hand, I am worried about the future, making all those families millionaires is not going to accomplish much, money was sent to help the victims families, should the families not be grateful for the outpouring of aid? Yes, there are flaws in the airlines, but the buildings were flaw too, since they collapsed under the burden of heat. Do they sue the company who owns the buildings cause of acts of people who were working for a man so corrupted in the mind that American are enemies?



This is a wake up call! A call to make our airlines more secure, a wake up call to realize American is not as safe as we naive people believe. However, making many people millionaires will not bring them back. Can we say if one must die they should have died in the terrorist attacks, at least their families are being taken care of. Are the victims both unlucky--death--and their families lucky--they died in terrorist bombings? Those that die on our streets, are very unlucky, they should have been at the Towers that fateful, horrific day.



Thank you.

God Bless America
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2002-01-07