Replies

I'm sure that more than a few freepers expected us to be killing and eating each other by now. No Muslims or their stores have been attacked as far as I know. Well, I can tell you that Brooklyn is strangely quiet. I suspect many are having trouble sleeping tonight, as I am.

The NYPD and Firemen were magnificent. Many leaders seem to have died at the head of their men. I suspect that now even Al Sharpton will lay off the cops for a week or two. Our mayor was a hero too. Right in the thick of it.

Brooklyn is strangely quiet. I suspect many are having trouble sleeping tonight, as I am.

I am a Brooklynite having trouble sleeping as well. I work on Wall Street and my shift starts at 2:00 pm. I went out at 10 to vote in the mayoral primary (later cancelled), and the soot from the WTC has given me an asthma attack that is now 14 hours strong. It is easier to breathe when I sit up at the computer than when I lie down in bed, so I think this will be the day that I post more than I have in the 3 years I have been a freeper combined!

It is heartbraking to think of the brave firemen, EMTs and Policemen who died in the collapse of those towers. Fleeing office workers from the South Tower said that they passed a non-stop procession of Emergency personnel heading up the stairs toward the injured and dying as the citizens were scrambling down the stairwell to save their own lives. Hundreds of firemen, cops and Med Techs. Heading up to the inferno. The building collapsed soonafter. All are presumed lost.

I understand that the number of firemen lost in the collapse is really unknown because SO MANY off duty firemen from the 5 boroughs and Newark headed down to the Financial District to lend assistance. They can only really make a count of the guys that were on scheduled duty. That's real heroism. Valorous men and women giving up their lives - not because they were on the clock - but because they were needed to save citizens. Damn! You - we all -should be proud of the people in your city.

On a partisan note ... can anyone imagine the chaos that would have ensued under a Dinkins Administration? There would have been looting. For all his quirks, Rudy is going to be missed. Mark Green is gonna restart the same old, same old Dem spoils machine. NYC will be a pit again within 5 years.