Subject: A day which will live in infamy
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senoritafishI orginally posted the following at the now defunct ChickClick.com's boards. A few days later, Dragoness Eclectic , the webmistress of a fanfiction site I frequent sent an email and asked if we were all all right. I found it touching that she was concerned for her myriad readers. Later, she asked to post our emails back to her. She has kept this on her site ever since, for which I am grateful.
Subject: A day which will live in infamy
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:00:24 -0700
From: "DragonessNewDBZStuff" <dbz_notify@republicofnewhome.org>
To: cyhiggin@pipeline.com
I'm still stunned by the events of Tuesday, September 11. Please...
Is everyone okay?
--dragoness
Re: A day which will live in infamy
(Oxyjulis@cs.com, Mon Sep 17 21:11:40 2001)
Dear Dragoness,
Thanks for your so much query and that your concern about your
readers. I haven't checked my email for awhile so please forgive my
late response. I live in California and did not know anyone in New
York personally. However, this is not to say I was not affected; I
think we all were. The following was something I posted on one of the
ChickClick message boards - which was quite scary to read - people
were posting as things were happening.
**********************
I'm currently on maternity leave with a 3-week old daughter. She
nurses every 2-3 hours or so, so things have been feeling a bit
surreal to begin with from lack of sleep. My mother-in-law woke me up
Tuesday morning and told me to turn on the TV. "The WTC buildings have
collapsed. They were both hit by planes and so was the Pentagon." I
watched in horror until my two little boys woke up and I changed the
channel to cartoons - a 2 and 3 year old do not need to see people
jumping out buildings even if they don't understand what is
happening. The oldest saw pictures of the explosions later in the
evening and said "Fire's bad - firemen save the city" (Oh, honey, if
only they could have). I had to explain to him that some bad people
had done a very bad thing and hurt a lot of people. Then he asked if
monsters had done it (he likes the Powerpuff girls); and I told him
unfortuneately the monsters were human.
What I have been feeling the last few days must be how my parents felt
during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with the added feeling of terrible
grief for all the lost lives. One of the things that affected me most
was a woman's voice I heard on the radio that afternoon, as I was
pacing back and forth in the living room trying to soothe my daughter
to sleep. She was in tears, trying to get out Manhattan and back to
her 2-month old daughter she had left in daycare that morning. "Will
she even have a tommorow? What kind a future is she going to have
now?" I just burst out sobbing; I felt exactly the same way. I
couldn't get to sleep until 3am the next morning; I heard jets flying
over and assumed they must be military.
I agree those responsible should be brought to justice; however, I
fear any retaliation the US performs will only bring more retaliation
from other terrorists. It will just start an endless cycle. They are
spread out across the globe, and we can't hope to get all of them at
once. One madman will eventually be replaced by another. I am more
saddened than angry that people can be so filled with blind hatred
(here as well as overseas - the poeple shooting up mosques and
businesses are just as bad). I know, however, it is mostly extremists
that feel this way. I was touched to see the emotion expressed by
Yassir Arafat and suprised to hear on the news the same sentiments
expressed by Khadafi in Libya.
And to the people who were castigating the girl who said "life goes
on" in the previous (ChickClick.com)thread (one of whom I noticed had the same three
words in her signature-from a quote by Robert Frost) - yes it does,
though we still feel pain and grief. Though I've been crying on and
off since Tuesday, the sun is still rising and setting, I still had to
get through a job interview yesterday, there were meals to be prepared
and the baby still needs to be fed (and speak of the devil, she's
waking up again). In the end, a semblance of normalcy and routine will
be what keeps us all sane in this crazy world.
*******************************
I'd also like to say "Thanks so much" for for your stories; at a time
like this some pure escapism is truly needed. I only wish Goku,
Vegeta, and crew really existed so they could prevent incidents like
this. Where are the superheroes when you need 'em? Hell, I'd even
settle for the Powerpuff Girls.
Leeanne (aka Senoritafish)
P.S. Also many thanks for bringing Radditz back to life. I liked his
hair, too, and how could any member of Goku's family be completely
evil?
Subject: A day which will live in infamy
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:00:24 -0700
From: "DragonessNewDBZStuff" <dbz_notify@republicofnewhome.org>
To: cyhiggin@pipeline.com
I'm still stunned by the events of Tuesday, September 11. Please...
Is everyone okay?
--dragoness
Re: A day which will live in infamy
(Oxyjulis@cs.com, Mon Sep 17 21:11:40 2001)
Dear Dragoness,
Thanks for your so much query and that your concern about your
readers. I haven't checked my email for awhile so please forgive my
late response. I live in California and did not know anyone in New
York personally. However, this is not to say I was not affected; I
think we all were. The following was something I posted on one of the
ChickClick message boards - which was quite scary to read - people
were posting as things were happening.
**********************
I'm currently on maternity leave with a 3-week old daughter. She
nurses every 2-3 hours or so, so things have been feeling a bit
surreal to begin with from lack of sleep. My mother-in-law woke me up
Tuesday morning and told me to turn on the TV. "The WTC buildings have
collapsed. They were both hit by planes and so was the Pentagon." I
watched in horror until my two little boys woke up and I changed the
channel to cartoons - a 2 and 3 year old do not need to see people
jumping out buildings even if they don't understand what is
happening. The oldest saw pictures of the explosions later in the
evening and said "Fire's bad - firemen save the city" (Oh, honey, if
only they could have). I had to explain to him that some bad people
had done a very bad thing and hurt a lot of people. Then he asked if
monsters had done it (he likes the Powerpuff girls); and I told him
unfortuneately the monsters were human.
What I have been feeling the last few days must be how my parents felt
during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with the added feeling of terrible
grief for all the lost lives. One of the things that affected me most
was a woman's voice I heard on the radio that afternoon, as I was
pacing back and forth in the living room trying to soothe my daughter
to sleep. She was in tears, trying to get out Manhattan and back to
her 2-month old daughter she had left in daycare that morning. "Will
she even have a tommorow? What kind a future is she going to have
now?" I just burst out sobbing; I felt exactly the same way. I
couldn't get to sleep until 3am the next morning; I heard jets flying
over and assumed they must be military.
I agree those responsible should be brought to justice; however, I
fear any retaliation the US performs will only bring more retaliation
from other terrorists. It will just start an endless cycle. They are
spread out across the globe, and we can't hope to get all of them at
once. One madman will eventually be replaced by another. I am more
saddened than angry that people can be so filled with blind hatred
(here as well as overseas - the poeple shooting up mosques and
businesses are just as bad). I know, however, it is mostly extremists
that feel this way. I was touched to see the emotion expressed by
Yassir Arafat and suprised to hear on the news the same sentiments
expressed by Khadafi in Libya.
And to the people who were castigating the girl who said "life goes
on" in the previous (ChickClick.com)thread (one of whom I noticed had the same three
words in her signature-from a quote by Robert Frost) - yes it does,
though we still feel pain and grief. Though I've been crying on and
off since Tuesday, the sun is still rising and setting, I still had to
get through a job interview yesterday, there were meals to be prepared
and the baby still needs to be fed (and speak of the devil, she's
waking up again). In the end, a semblance of normalcy and routine will
be what keeps us all sane in this crazy world.
*******************************
I'd also like to say "Thanks so much" for for your stories; at a time
like this some pure escapism is truly needed. I only wish Goku,
Vegeta, and crew really existed so they could prevent incidents like
this. Where are the superheroes when you need 'em? Hell, I'd even
settle for the Powerpuff Girls.
Leeanne (aka Senoritafish)
P.S. Also many thanks for bringing Radditz back to life. I liked his
hair, too, and how could any member of Goku's family be completely
evil?
