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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Berry" <tberry@hcea.net>
To: "Kristi Warab" <kwarab@wheelock.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: NY News


> Probably something about it never happening here before.
>
> Peter Kurilecz rightly pointed out that America has been attacked by
foreign
> powers before, but this is something unprecedented. Early news media
> comparisons to Oklahoma City were very quickly rendered trivial by the
> enormity of the crime. (And that's what it is.) As another poster pointed
> out, even comparisons to Pearl Harbor fail beyond a certain point becuase
we
> cannot say a given nation or regime did this. The perpetrators live in
> shadows and strike from the safety of anonymity.
>
> In another aspect of all this, there is the kind of violence that we
become
> used to - news of terrorism in foreign lands, the violence in our
> entertainment, in local crime, in our thoughts and words behind the wheel.
> It all becmes so repetitive that we become dulled to it. Then something
> monumental like this happens and we learn anew how to be outraged. I fear
> for the day when even crimes of this magnitude no longer outrage us.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kristi Warab" <kwarab@wheelock.edu>
> To: "Thomas Berry" <tberry@hcea.net>
> Cc: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: NY News
>
>
> > I did not mean that planes are hijacked and crashed into buildings every
> day.
> > What I meant was that violence is wide-spread and it happens. Why is
> America so
> > special?
> >
> > Kristi
> >
> > Thomas Berry wrote:
> >
> > > No, this does not happen every day anywhere else in the world. It may
> reside
> > > in some people's hearts everyday, but for it to be manifested so
> savagely is
> > > exceptional.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Kristi Warab" <kwarab@wheelock.edu>
> > > To: "Thomas Berry" <tberry@HCEA.NET>
> > > Cc: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:23 PM
> > > Subject: Re: NY News
> > >
> > > > Just think...in other countries, this sort of thing happens every
day.
> I
> > > hope
> > > > that this tragedy will make make others think about that and the
> > > deep-rooted
> > > > causes. The media can portray a very different reality.
> > > >
> > > > Kristi Warab
> > > > Technical Services Librarian
> > > > Wheelock College
> > > > Boston, MA
> > > >
> > > > Thomas Berry wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I know now how my parents felt upon hearing of Pearl Harbor.
> > > > >
> > > > > What has gotten into the human race that it has become acceptable
in
> > > some
> > > > > cultures to scream profanities at school children and to slaughter
> > > thousands
> > > > > of civilians in the name of one's cause?
> > > > >
> > > > > Best wishes,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thomas Berry, Archivist
> > > > > Historical Construction Equipment Association
> > > > > 16623 Liberty Hi Road
> > > > > Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
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> > > > > tberry@hcea.net
> > > > > http://www.hcea.net
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Linda Little" <cityclerk@MORGANTOWN.COM>
> > > > > To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:44 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: NY News
> > > > >
> > > > > > Prayers are going out for all...:)
> > > > > >
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