your quote "Those attacks didn't distinguish between any of our usuall class, economic, racial or educational backgrounds" ,as much as one could argue to its quirky absurd truth, your quote screams out with your omission of the most recent event that, granted not geopolitics wise, but in absolute human suffering dealt its card with the very dinstinguishion between those of different class, economic, racial or educational backgrounds. yours, ac QUOTE]Quote from limitdown: For those of us who went through those horrible days, I say: Semper Fidelis. I told those whom I trade with and against, just shortly after the attacks and the following months afterwards, that they should make a manditory pilgramage to NYC to see what was done and what impact it had. I fielded many comments of carelessness and suggestions that "we" should just get over it and get on, as well as proper comments of understanding and concern. Personally, I continued to have nightmares each time they found more at the site or held another parade. Fortunately they have subsided with time passing, as well as the intensity and stress and panic. Those attacks didn't distinguish between any of our usuall class, economic, racial or educational backgrounds. Perhaps there are many positive things to be learned in how we have rebounded. [/QUOTE]
Hi. Not sure what you're saying here. Are you comparing the responses between the two? Certainly neither "disaster" - one man-made, one natural - had any preference as to socio-economics. The reason the response was so different from one to the other was because 9/11 happened in NYC, a place that has all kinds of immediate resources for rescue, right there in the neighborhood and in the surrounding neighborhoods, and the disaster was in a very concentrated area. New Orleans is a completely different environment and the disaster was much more wide-spread. If, for whatever reason, those 2 planes had crashed smack into the middle of Harlem, and destroyed watermains so that Harlem was flooded, would NY's response have been any different to Harlem than it was to downtown? I don't think so. Would they have had similar problems dealing w/suddenly 1000's of homeless? Yeah, I think so. I'm not defending the crap response in NO, but it's a different scenairo than NYC, you can't compare the two. H