Dear Flow Friends, I am writing from the 68th street and First Avenue in New York to thank all of you that have sent your messages and prays to us. The Manhattan streets are not the same, the restaurants and theaters are either close or empty, the Central Park and the Fifth Avenue are quite empty. The people from New York and from Washington are suffering the direct hit. Everybody here is hurt, either physically or in the soul. After the first crash we do not believe it, then the second crash and then the first tower went down and after that the second tower went down and the sky was covered by smoke that clouded almost all Manhattan. At the same time, we learned that Washington was hit and the fire was also bursting into the sky. It was a beautiful blue sky with not clouds at all. The only cloud was from the flames. Then, you feel that you are vulnerable and that you life can be cut short as it happened for the victims. Sometimes you think that it will be an announcement and that this is a movie that has a half time break and you will go out and the towers are ok and no people are hurt and this is a very good movie. But, there is not movie, only pain, tears and deaths. People hug each other, cry in somebody shoulder and walk, walk, walk, walk for empty streets showing pictures of the love ones. Many beds were empty the next morning, many fathers did not read stories in the evening and many mothers did not bless in the evening. This does not make any sense at all. It is not logical, is not rational, is just beyond any rational concept of respect for human life. Many people is volunteering, helping each other, just putting together the pieces of the soul and facing the challenges of the new day knowing that we are humans and that we are going to get through and face a new beginning. Rafael >To my colleagues and people of the United States, > >Although I cannot find words that would be appropriate to the magnitude of >the devastation and sorrow inflicted on the people of America, I write to >this forum to express my heartfelt sympathies as an individual and an >Australian. > >Our nation too is in shock, disbelief and mourning of the massacre of >innocent people and carnage to a country and people not at war. > >I am so sad that this has happened. > >Jeanette Drew > > > >Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology >King Edward Memorial Hospital >University of Western Australia >Perth, WA, AUSTRALIA. -- Rafael Nunez M.D. Associate Laboratory Member-Immunology Program Manager Flow Cytometry Core Facility Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Box 98, 1275 York Avenue New York, NY 10021 Telephone (212) 639-6392 Fax (917) 432-2333 E-mail: nunezr@mskcc.org
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