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2002-09-11

Yes, I know how you feel -- I have not been able to get through to my NYC
friend but I did call her mom's house in my hometown and talked to her
brother, who told me she had managed to call and she's OK and so is her
son, and her brother was the one who told me that she had seen the first
plane as it went over. Hopefully I will get thru to her later but it
appears all the lines are full or down. I hope you are able to locate
your friends soon.

Thanks for your good thoughts -- they are appreciated.
Kathleen

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:51:52 -0700 "Evelyn Jerome"
<evelyn_jerome@hotmail.com> writes:
>Kathleen --
>
>I am glad to hear you are ok. Please know I'm thinking about you and
>all my
>DC and NY friends right now -- I have 2 NY friends who are unaccounted
>for
>and it's really alarming.
>
>I will write more later -- keep your spirits up and whatever you do,
>be
>careful.
>
>Love and thoughts,
>Evelyn
>
>
>From: Kathleen E Lyon <beener20@juno.com>
>To: andack@bellsouth.net, beazley.1@osu.edu, Brudney.1@osu.edu,
>Anne_Carlson@cargill.com, Colker.2@osu.edu, beditor@bellsouth.net,
>smgerber@jonesday.com, sfg@crab.rutgers.edu, govhouse@cyberramp.net,
>hellerhm@prodigy.net, HHERWARTH@aol.com,
>mary_hughes@ohnd.uscourts.gov,
>evelyn@jhu.edu, amilloyd@yahoo.com, JAMKWM@aol.com,
>merritt.52@osu.edu,
>montgomery34@hotmail.com, Northern.1@osu.edu, coneill@hwbpromo.com,
>HWBCathy@aol.com, meanswan@aol.com, nrapoport@uh.edu,
>bray@slk-law.com,
>sfh3353@copper.net, SteeleTig@aol.com, meeshmls@aol.com,
>jilly1@mindspring.com, stantzoo@swbell.net, starr@psci.net,
>buckleyfan@aol.com, eta639@airmail.net, shkaw5@earthlink.net,
>gaylynn209@aol.com, julie_k71@hotmail.com, kpoling@mowery-youell.com
>Subject: Update from DC
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:03:14 -0700
>
>I just wanted to let everyone know what's going on here. I am fine,
>but
>very rattled. When I got to work this morning I went straight to
>e-mail
>and didn't hit the web like I usually do to read the papers, etc. so
>I
>had no idea what was going on until my brother Geoff, who works for
>the
>State Dept at the embassy in Moscow, called me from a cab in
>Frankfurt
>Germany and explained that he didn't understand German very well but
>from
>the radio in the cab it sounded like planes had hit the World Trade
>Center and he wanted to know what was going on. I was stunned and
>turned
>on NPR and just started repeating to him what they were saying, and
>that's how I learned. We talked for a bit and were both very
>distressed
>but as it seemed limited to NYC there wasn't much for us to talk
>about
>except generalities and in terms of the difficulties he would face
>trying
>to get out of Frankfurt back to Moscow. But as soon as I hung up the
>phone, the reports came in one after the other: a plane ran into the
>Pentagon, a bombing at the State Dept, the Old Executive Office
>building
>is on fire, West Wing of the White House evacuated, just one thing
>after
>another, and then more reports were coming in about the plane in
>Pennsylvania, and the scope of it hit me, and it was just incredibly
>overwhelming at the time. One person on our floor has a 13" black
>and
>white TV so I ran back there briefly and then ran back to try and call
>my
>brother back to let him know about how everything was going haywire
>in
>DC, but our phones were dead.
>
>The NLRB is not in a federal building per se -- we rent space from a
>private company, so we are not a high risk building. But we are 4
>1/2
>blocks from the White House and so things seem to hit close to home.
>The
>thing about DC is that everyone knows people in other agencies, is
>married or otherwise related to someone in another agency, used to
>work
>at the agency, etc., so when one agency is affected, esp. one as big
>as
>the Pentagon, the whole city feels it because of those deep
>relationships, so at least in those first two hours or so, it was
>extremely upsetting for what seemed like everyone. It's just so
>utterly
>shocking. In my case I was very upset for the country, worried a bit
>for
>myself and DC's immediate situation, worried about Geoff and the
>vulnerability of US embassies and other interests abroad, and I have
>a
>brother in the Marines and all I could think of was war (though he's
>not
>in a position to be likely to go), and I was worried about my mom,
>who's
>health is not good, worrying about her kids.
>
>A colleague who lives nearby offered me a ride home and I jumped at
>the
>chance. It took over 2 hours to get the approx. 10 miles to my
>apartment, but it gave me an opportunity to try and come to grips
>with
>all this and for my friend, who is very calm, to calm me down. But
>it's
>just incomprehensible.
>
>I have not turned on the television, b/c I just can't handle it at
>this
>point. The only coverage I've seen totals less than about one
>minute's
>worth this morning, and the news reports on the radio and what I've
>heard
>from my sister and mom are just too disturbing so I don't think I will
>be
>able to watch any time soon. As strange and frightening as the
>experience in DC was, it is so minimal compared to what NYC is going
>through, which is truly beyond comprehension at the moment. My
>friend
>was walking to work and saw the first plane going right over her. All
>I
>can think about are the people in the all the different planes being
>aware of what was going to happen to them, the people in the WTC when
>it
>collapsed or those who jumped in desperation before it collapsed --
>it's
>just too much right now. I am sure many of you feel the same.
>
>Thanks for letting me talk. I have been having crying jags all day
>and
>know I'm not alone. Feel free to talk back -- it helps.
>
>Kathleen

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:51:52

Update from DC