[ncte-talk] Peace? Not today...

[Al Sylvia <alsylvia@yahoo.com>]

My dear friends,

I've spent a day, unlike any I've ever spent, and never want to spend
another like it.  I compose this crying.  I cry in thanks as not a member
of my family has been harmed.  I cry in sorrow as I watched horrible,
horrible events today (I, too, could see the towers from my classroom).  I
cry in grief for all of my kids whose friends and family perished today 
(and there were so, so many).  I cry in anger that there are humans alive
who could perform such horrendous, brutal acts.  I cry in outrage at
seeing others delight in such horror.

But mostly, I cry in emptiness -- in a place where once dwelled my faith
in human kind.  What was I thinking?

And I can't seem to stop the tears....

Al