Dear all,
Dr. Wortis raises a good point. I live just outside of DC/Arlington County and could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon on my way home from work on September 11th. The atmosphere here is eerie and solemn. I spent that evening babysitting children of a teacher who was kind enough to remain at school with the 10-15 elementary school children whose parents could not pick them up because of traffic/closed roads/who knows what else (word of advice- do not dispense Coca-Cola to 3 and 6 year olds at 9PM; even if they SWEAR that their parents let them drink it ANYTIME and they PROMISE to go right to bed afterwards).
The nation is in need of volunteers. If you would like to help, please email emergencyresponse@dc-cares.org. Include your name, address, phone number(s), email address, and any special skills that are relevant (not flow cytometry, but if you were once a builder or a grief counselor or something). Also if you don't live closeby they would like for you to indicate whether or not you are able to travel to DC or New York. They will compile the information and match volunteers with assignments.
Thank you.
sarah
>Sarah B. Tanksley
>Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
>United States HIV Research Program
>Division of Retrovirology
>1600 Gude Drive
>Rockville, Maryland 20850
>Telephone: (301) 251-8398
>Fax: (301) 762-7460
>Email: stanksley@hivresearch.org
>
>"Henry H. Wortis" <henry.wortis@tufts.edu>
>09/13/2001 06:33 PM AST
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> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
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> Subject: Response
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>Please, in using this forum to respond to Tuesday's events can we limit ourselves to
>mobilizing aid for the victims and
>offering sympathy?
>
>In view of the diversity of our views, it does not help to accentuate differences.
>This is my response to a recent
>message that suggested that violence by those with one view is "uncivilized" while
>what others do is civil.
>
>I am simply reminded of the words of Kurtz in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" or Coppola's
>"Apocalypse Now".... "The
>horror! The horror!"
>
>--
>Henry H. Wortis, M.D.
>Professor, Pathology/Immunology
>Tufts University School of Medicine
>136 Harrison Ave.
>Boston MA 02111-1817
>(617) 636-6718
>FAX (617) 636-2990
>henry.wortis@tufts.edu
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