Re: Our Tragedy
- Subject: Re: Our Tragedy
- From: r* c*
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:50:06
Dear Charles,
Latest information presumes that people "did get out of their seats" on the
flight that went into the ground near Pittsburgh.
Robin Corwin
>From: Charles Dills <cdills@charter.net>
>Reply-To: cdills@charter.net
>To: brom-l@bdt.org.br
>CC: slott@thetribunenews.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Our Tragedy
>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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