Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:29:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Jivko Georgiev <jivkox43georgiev-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Theorize *this* Those who can, they theorize, Those who cant, they feel released of theorizing. I feld so many times released, so i found that it needs some theory. Regards! Jivko --- SeaPiglet-AT-aol.com wrote: > Frankly, I feel *released* from theorizing more than > I'm refraining from it. > My sensate, concrete, and emotional life takes > priority. But I'll offer some > bits for others to theorize if they choose. > > Three weeks to the day, almost to the hour, before > the first plane crashed > into the WTC, friends of mine were involved in a > horrible car accident. The > husband died. The wife was horribly injured. The > accident was all over the > news all day, because a chemical truck was involved > (the truck driver > suffered a broken leg) and a major highway was > closed for hours. I may have > heard about the accident during the day in traffic > reports, but because I > don't drive that stretch of road, I paid no > attention. The names were not > released until about 5pm, after next of kin were > notified. I found out in > the evening, when another friend called me. > > I went over to that friend's house and we began > calling people in the > community theater that the couple were involved in, > to make sure they knew. > While we did this we had the TV on for updates and > kept a radio tuned to the > all-news station which was issuing updates every > quarter-hour and said the > victims' names every hour. My friend called the TV > stations and and told > them how to correctly pronounce the couple's last > name. When the 11 o'clock > news came on, we taped it. We checked every channel > (only one got the name > right). In between we kept calling people and > talked to them. > > It was odd trying to connect the news story to our > friends as we knew them. > On TV it looked like any other anonymous news story, > and in the meantime we > were sobbing on telephones, calling up the hospital > to see if the wife's > parents have arrived yet, and we were convinced that > friends of the couple > without direct access to radio or television (many > were camping at a music > festival that was being set up, and the couple was > expected there to help) > did not know. > > At the hospital in the critical care unit, when we > went to visit the wife, we > met the friends and relatives of other trauma > victims, some of whom had also > been in news stories. It was a way of avoiding > going into details about the > patients. "You probably heard about it in the > news." > > I don't know whether seeing the smashed-up minivan > in the news, and hearing > their names in the media helped or hindered my > grieving. But it was part of > it. Nowhere near the biggest part of it, but it was > significant. > > So make something of that. > > Ellen > > In a message dated 9/17/01 8:37:00 PM Eastern > Daylight Time, > semanticterrorist-AT-home.com writes: > > << I've noticed a pronounced trend on this list...it > seems as if ever > since the events of 9-11, some have decided that > everything that was > done before, theorizing or whatnot, was a joke, and > that they have > "woken up" to the "true reality" and we need to > give up our > theorizing. >> __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/
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