Never doubt that we remember the people who died, you presume a great deal to think that we didn't lose friends or family. However, your constant insistance that we must allow the government's actions to "honor the dead" and "remember those who died on 9-11" are equivilent to insisting that something must be done "for the sake of the children", which is a baseless argument aimed completely at emotion and ignoring all fact. At this point however, I'd like to suggest that we are horribly off topic and have been for a while and that maybe this thread should die now. In the future if someone posts something moderately related (as the initial post was) that you disagree with, please just respond to them. toby On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, webb1973 wrote: > Thank you, Mr. Kuo. It's too easy to forget that there are faces associated > with those numbers we see on CNN of the missing. These are real people who > did not deserve to die. We can debate due process and privacy all we want, > but the voices of those who paid the price for our lack of security on 9-11 > can now be heard only through the voices of those who once knew them. Thanks > for inserting some reality into this exchange. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-crime@/var/spool/majordomo/lists/crime > [mailto:owner-crime@/var/spool/majordomo/lists/crime]On Behalf Of Kuo, > Jimmy > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 12:17 AM > To: 'crime@private ' > Subject: RE: CRIME Kudos to Acting Police Chief Andrew Kirkland > > > >>Mr. Kohlenberg, you seem to have a strong resentment of > >>government's role in your life. That's a joke, dude. > > >Toby is not alone. > > I have noticed something in all this. That is, the sentiment on the east > coast is very different than that of the west coast. > > And I present to you why: > > Mukul Agarwala > http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0109/missing/files/agarwala.mukul.html > Mukul and I spent anywhere from 1 to 5 hours a day, every day, during summer > months, usually playing tennis. Then as President of the Chess Club and > captain of the Math team, I helped to cultivate his capabilities in each of > these two disciplines in HS. > > I write this, the first words I've written on this subject, as Jimmy Kuo, > class of '78, South Brunswick HS, NJ. > > And why is the sentiment different on the east coast? In the NYC area, > everyone has a similar story of someone they knew who was alive on Sept. 10, > or at worst, someone who knew someone. > > And everyone on the east coast knows someone in the NYC area. > > Six degrees of separation on Sept 10 became three on Sept 11. > > Jimmy > > ----- > > The New York Times, October 31, 2001 > > Mukul K. Agarwala > 'Here's Lookin' at You, Kid' > > After he folded an Internet company in San Diego last spring, Mukul K. > Agarwala moved back east to be near his parents in Kendall Park, N.J., > because they were in failing health. His sense of family extended to his > friends' children, too. "He would call every month to ask for a new photo of > our daughter, Riya," said Neeraj Mital, a friend since college. > > Mr. Agarwala's widow, Rhea Stone, said that his sense of concern went even > further. Not long after they met in Hong Kong in 1993, she said, he saw a > newspaper article about a mistreated domestic worker who, like Mr. > Agarwala's parents, had come from India. He went to the Indian diplomatic > mission and paid her fare back home. > > Ms. Stone said her husband's enthusiasms ranged from snowboarding to reading > history to old movies. She could not remember how many times they had > watched "Casablanca." On Sept. 11, Mr. Agarwala, 37, was in his second day > as a research analyst on software for Fiduciary Trust. > > >
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