Our Tragedy
- Subject: Our Tragedy
- From: C* D*
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:11:44 -0700
Several of you from overseas have expressed condolences to us
on the internet over the tragedies in New York and Washington. I am
sure we all thank you for your sympathy. But I want to caution you,
it could happen to you.
They had the advantage of surprise. The passengers in these
four airliners had little time to reflect and think about their
plight and had no idea what was about to happen. But now, we have
been warned. We do have time to think.
I woke up at 5:30 this morning and I couldn't get back to
sleep. All I could think of was that there was over 200 people that
sat in their seats and let some nut hold a razor blade in the air
while his buddy flew the airplane through a building.
OK. I can understand it the first time. Those people had no
idea there was anyone so crazy they would do a thing like that. But
now we know. We have been warned.
I have a recipe for survival and I hope I have the guts to do
it if the time should ever arrive for me. What could these two or
three people do if almost everybody on the plane got up and swamped
them? Perhaps they could kill ten or twenty. But isn't that better
than everybody. I'm not even considering what their target might be.
American history tells us that perhaps a hundred men at the
Alamo in San Antonio held off an army of a couple thousand and
finally died, every one. This gave us the rallying cry, "Remember the
Alamo!" Well, everybody in the world has a new cry, "Remember the
World Trade Center!"
I say to the pilots, "Never leave the cockpit after the
engines are started, for ANY reason.". I was a fighter pilot in WWII.
We had a "Pilot's Relief Tube" under the seat to take care of that
need.
The question always is, "If I'm first, I may be the one to
die". But what you need to think is, "If someone isn't first, we all
will die, and something terrible will happen, a tragedy!"
To the people and their families, my heartfelt sympathy. To
all you nice people out there (and most people are!), remember,
it could happen over there too. "Get out of your seat and do
something!
---Chas---
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