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Let's relax, please



Ladies & gentlemen, if I may ask, can we please at this time, of all times,
cease & desist from our heated (if not angry) postings?

I personally don't really give a damn whether flying a flag is an
appropriate response or not.  I don't care who else has suffered (though I
have even less kindness left than before for the Palestinians after seeing
them celebrate in the streets of the West Bank).  I don't care whether
terror on a grand scale happened here first or not.

People, probably in the thousands, have died.  Hundreds of thousands of
husbands, wives and children have lost their wives, fathers, and husbands,
brothers and sisters, friends and cousins.  The right to basic safety, so
assumed here in the US, is no longer true.  Significant damage has been done
to our city, our infrastructure, our commerce, our nation, and our world.
The world will never be the same again, and we should recognize that.

Each response, be it flag waving, blood donation, prayer, physical, mental
or emotional support, should be in the eyes, heart and mind of the
individual.

Please don't compound ALL OUR suffering with petty debates about
nationalism.

Trust me, it's really not helping.

DS

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Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu

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