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Some thoughts
Dear Collegues...pray your indulgence...I must give expression to some inner
thoughts.
9-11-01
I saw people at the windows,
Trapped fellow human beings,
Like prisoners behind bars.
A woman leaning out,
Impossible to get to,
Plaintively waving a white cloth.
People falling....slow motion,
But not at all Hollywood-poetic,
Headed for hard, sharp-edged rubble.
What were they thinking?
How could they do that?
The fragility of the human body;
In the blink of an eye,
A life ended, snuffed out.
Not just a body, but a personality:
A way of speaking; a way of walking;
The feel of their arms around you;
The look in their eyes.
A cell' phone call to a neighbor:
"Hi, Jenn. I'm at the World Trade Center.
They told us to go up on the roof and wait.
I guess a helicopter will come to pick us up.
Love you. Tell the kids I love them."
A prayer please for the families left behind.
That they be given strength to pass through this time
and continue their lives along a new path, in memory of those
who are not around to see them grow and develop.
Gunnar M. Berg, YIVO Institute
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