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2002-08-19

Anybody over on Big Week hear any further news about the
rest of our gang? I know Lemming is down in the area
there somewhere and I know Wolverine worked in the Trade
Center as I ran into him several times grabbing a smoke
outside the lobby.

We were evacuated from the office yesterday, there's a
lot of false alams going on, and I can understand the
idea of trying to get back on track and working to
implement the disaster recovery stuff that we have. But
hell, nobody is getting anything done anyway. Send
everybody the fuck home and we'll get back to it next
week... that's my say on the matter.

A couple of my friends are missing... I've been asking
around about co-workers and friends of mine at our
customer sites, nobody knows shit, it's all this horrible
waiting game. One friend of mine, a fella by the name of
Jack Murray, was a senior VP at the bank where I'm now
consulting. When I first started with Hitachi some 17
years ago he befriended me on my first visit to his bank
- "Hitachi? We'll it's about friggin time they got some
Americans working for them!" is what he said when we
first met (I was one of the first "local" staff engineers
to be hired). Since then the guy has been lifesaver for
me at work. I don't know how many times I'd run into some
kind of bullshit or be stranded somewhere at the bank
with security giving me a hard time about access and all
I ever had to do was drop his name and the doors would
open. I like to think that I also made it a little easier
for him on my side as well. Many a time he'd call and say
we're having some kind of trouble, not sure if it's your
stuff or not, and I'd tell him no worry I'll be right
over and figure it out.

Word I'm getting is that he got out of the building with
a co-worker but then turned to go back in, probably to be
sure his people we're getting out ok. That was the last
anybody saw of him.

My father-in-law lost some very old and dear friends. You
may have heard about the top FDNY brass that were killed,
they were all very good friends of his. He's a retired
fireman and former fire safety director for Chase
Manhattan Bank. One of the guys that was lost grew up
with my father-in-law, they went to grade school together
and were friends for 50 years.

The feeling I'm getting on the streets, in the subways
and on the trains, is that the shock and numbness are
beginning to wear off and people are really starting to
get pissed off. I know the rest of the country is
probably already to the anger stage. Here we've had the
horror to delay the anger but I can see and feel it
coming. New Yorkers tend to be pissed off people even on
a good day, so this could get ugly. If it turns out that
any country was directly involved (Iran, Iraq, whatever)
we'll they'd be wise to close their UN offices and get
the hell outta town before the mob starts scooping them
up and hanging em from lampposts.

I imagine that soon there'll be lists of the missing
posted somewhere... I have to know but I'm already
dreading it and afraid to look.

Ho

Fri Sep 14, 2001 7:29 am

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