Re: Report from Lower Manhattan

**D*@aol.com**

Adam,

As one of those email friends you've never met, I want to send a message of 
solidarity and support to you and your family. I was born in New York, but 
grew up out west in California. After college, I went to live in the City as 
a young man, got a little garden going behind a youth hostel off 88th near 
Central Park, and almost took a job at a little magazine just across the 
street from the World Trade Center. I remember how massive and solid those 
two towers seemed, casting their long long shadows. Today, I watched in 
horror and disbelief as they fell. I know you've dedicated yourself to 
building community and justice and a better earth through community gardens. 
That's what will make a lasting difference in the world, not crashing 
airliners into buildings. I'm very relieved that you and your family weren't 
hurt, and we all down here will hold you in the light as you work to heal and 
rebuild.   

Thanks, too, for telling us what you saw. More than any TV coverage, your 
honesty got through to me. You are 100% right, we are in for interesting 
times. It's essential that we keep hope alive, as Dr. King used to say, but 
some days surely are darker than others.

Don Boekelheide
Charlotte NC

a message dated 9/11/01 11:02:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Adam.Honigman@Bowne.com writes:

> Friends,
>  
>  I'm typing this a half mile away from what used to be the World Trade
>  Center. My wife, a RN Case Manager is on duty in her hospital's intensive
>  care unit in Midtown waiting for casualties. My son's high school is in the
>  east 90's and I'll be at home soon to wait for him ( the subways are closed
>  down, the city is a no fly zone, the smoke from our windows is here on
>  Hudson street is amazing.)
>  
>  The subway stopped at 14th Street and I walked to work because I knew that
>  this is where my family would be calling me to stay in touch. The view of
>  the building as it crumbled in flames and smoke... how can I ever forget 
it?
>  
>  
>  My hands are shaking.... I was temping as a paralegal at the World Trade
>  Center law firm Brown and Wood years ago during the last bombing in '93.
>  Walking down the 60 flights of stairs in smoke with my scared and out-of
>  shape co-workers was no fun. I remember coughing out crap for three weeks.
>  
>  There are no stairs now.
>  
>  I'm leaving work now to give blood at nearby St. Vincent's Hospital where
>  the bulk of the casualties are going.
>  
>  We are in for interesting times.
>  
>  God Bless America and all of us.
>  
>  Adam Honigman
>  

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