Posted on 11/08/2001 5:04:14 PM PST by young1
Chelsea was in NYC on 9-11 and wrote about her experience in the latest issue of "Talk" magazine. These are my fav quotes.
"One thing I recall is the somewhat irrational medley of thoughts running through my head: my parents, the tax cut, and Humpty-Dumpty."
"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the the families of the thousands I knew must have died."
"I was expounding on the detriments of Bush's tax cut as we approached Grand Central Terminal and were met with hordes of people running out of the station.."
"Once we stopped running I started praying. I prayed for my country and my city. I stopped berating the tax cut and started praying that the president would rise to lead us. And I thanked God my mother was a senator representing New York and that Rudy Giuliani was our mayor. I have never reacted so viscerally to a leader, particularly not to one I had been criticizing just the day before for some insensitivity or other.
"As soon as my father got back to New York, I was anxious to bring him to Manhattan......I knew he would want to connect with everyone who was confused and suffering..."
"As he always does, my father made me extemely proud."
"My mother, meanwhile, had worked nonstop, and as my father and I walked around Union Square, person after person approached us to tell us how grateful they were to her, how proud they were of here. I am still so unspeakably proud of her too, and as a New Yorker, grateful for her and her colleagues' efforts."
"That Monday I went to Rosh Hashanah services w/family friends, the Iscols.... In early Aug Zach (their son) was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps..... most people could not understand his decision. Why waste a Cornell eduacation on the military? "
I'm not sure if I still have this issue (I may have thrown it out) but if I still have it, I'll definitely bring it along to the next happy hour as well, along with the current issue.
Not in the next 2 weeks, I hope- I'll either be on vacation or on the wagon.
"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the the families of the thousands I knew must have died."
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