My father works on the 72nd floor of World Tower Two...we pray that he was evacuated before the second plane and is safe...I have been unable to contact anyone as of this time.

-- kritter (kritter@adephia.net), September 11, 2001

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He is safe, thank you.

Many got out of second building ok..before second plane and well before collapse. For those who were not so lucky..my deepest regrets.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), September 11, 2001.

Glad he's safe Kritter. A very close and good friend works right across the street from the twin towers and I left a message on their home machine. I'm really worried and can only hope they are ok. Ironically, this was their last week there before starting a new job here in NJ next week. I was close enough to the city today to see the smoke. It's drifting to the south and is miles long along the horizon. If ever there was a time when prayers were needed, this certainly is it.

-- (sonofdust@please.pray), September 11, 2001.

I've been praying (and crying) a lot today. This is all SO surreal isn't it? Kritter, I'm relieved to hear your father is OK. Rob, let us know when you find something out.

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 11, 2001.

(((kritter)))

-- helen (so@awful.so.awful), September 11, 2001.

(((rob)))

-- helen (hang@on.there), September 11, 2001.

Just got a call. My friend isn't in New York, but, thank God, away on a business trip in Florida.

Still, this is numbingly awful... like myself, almost everyone around here knows someone that either lives in the city or works there. Unlike myself, many are still waiting to hear from loved ones. All we can do is wait - and pray.

-- (sonofdust@keep.praying), September 11, 2001.

(((((Rob))))), ((((((Kritter)))))), ((((((FRLians)))))))

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 11, 2001.

Rob, I'm SO thankful your friend is OK. My heart goes out to all of those who lost someone. I attended a prayer service last night at my church. Everyone is grieving. (((((((America)))))))

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 12, 2001.

We, too, went to a prayer meeting at our church last night. And all day today, continued to pray as we tried to be productive. My heart goes out to all those in the agony of hoping against hope that their loved one is still alive and will be saved, and to all those whose hope is gone. Somehow God can use even great evil to produce greater good, and I pray that this will happen yet.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 12, 2001.

(((((((Tricia)))))))

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 14, 2001.

One relative has an official death count of 700 coworkers. Another relative lost a loved one in the pentagon. We knew this. Hope faded for lives, now the hope is fading for bodies.

Today at work a long line of condolence cards were waiting for us to sign. We lost some too, or some of ours lost some of theirs. They didn't tell us we even had any people there until they gave up hope for life. We never met these people. We talked to them. I knew them through my ears. I know you through my eyes. How odd to weep for people we've never touched.

-- helen (one@last.duty), September 17, 2001.

But our HEARTS have touched! (((((Helen)))))

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 18, 2001.

((((Helen)))), it would be more odd if you did not weep. I know you have a heart; only the heartless have no tears for this insanity. I'm sorry to hear you are one of those who had personal knowledge of some killed in Tuesday's horror; I pray for you and all have been personally affected.

Around the world, many who had heard no voice, read no writing and seen no face wept for the too soon dead and the suddenly bereft living. We still do. And many of us still pray.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 19, 2001.

Relatives were officially notified that positive id was made on their loved one. At least they have a body to bury.

-- helen (sad@sad.sad), September 21, 2001.

Amazing how one building, in one city so far away can become so personal ... so quick.

Found out yesterday that my brother and my cousin both had meetings scheduled for the Pentagon Tuesday morning, but both were postponed on Monday night (9/10) ...

Another engineer here at work used to be on the 80th of the WTC ... spooky hearing him talk about using the stairs and elevators.

From personal experience ..... not from abstract guesses.

-- Robert Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 22, 2001.

Robert, SO glad your brother and cousin weren't there at the time.

Helen, I hope that will give them a measure of closure. I realize it won't ease the pain, but if it were me, I would prefer having a body to bury. Tomorrow at Yankee Stadium will be a very sad day... I'm praying for all of the families.

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 22, 2001.

No name, just another voice. A guy called today. He was in the building across the street from the WTC and now he's been called back into the military. I said I would pray for him. (Not company policy, but I think they'll let it slide.) I thought maybe we ought to adopt our people in service and remember them daily. I've adopted this guy. I'll never know what happened to him, but I'll pray for him always. Just a thought...

-- helen (rusty@lines.to.God), September 24, 2001.

Bringing this thread out of the archives, on this auspicious anniversary.

Today, as it was two years ago, my prayers go out to those touched by this tragedy, and those that remain.

All of us.

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), September 11, 2003.

Sobering.

Two years later, and the same thoughts echo.

-- Robert & Jean Cook (RobertCook@GA.herewith Lon), September 13, 2003.

Thanks for the reminder, Aunt Bee. My only response is still tears and prayer.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 14, 2003.