email799.xml

email799.xml

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2002-09-11

Dear Mike, it´s good (very good) to hear, that you´re
alive ... btw I can´t imagine that you´re OK, having
witnessed all that. But again it´s good to read that
you make the best of it. I hope it will be most
supportive to you (and your friends and family) if I
tell you how we feel back in Germany.

Sandra and myself, we are both very sad and shocked.
Partly due to the excellent broadcasting and
communication systems, that deliver real-time and very
real and shocking news and pictures. At worked we
interupted a quiete important meeting, because we were
in the only meeting room with TV and nobody could
hesitate to watch the incredible news. I am shocked
not because I have lived in NYC but we have friends
and relatives there. But most of all I think we are
shocked because terrorism of that kind is new - even
for us Germans. As you know, during the 70s and 80s
Germany has seen brutal /left wing terrorism. However
in most of the cases the terrorist targets were
symbolic persons in politics and the economy. Never as
I can imagine, so many innocent people lost there
lives and the value distroyed was so high. We are very
much with you and if there´s anything that you need
... please let us know.

I hope you can cope with the bad things you have
witnessed and wish you the very best.

Best wishes

Philip & Sandra.

9-15-01

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