My dear friends, this must not be.
We OS/2 users have often been maligned as zealots, cranks, crackpots and worse but through our travails, we have
forged a community with a spirit that rises far above these petty affairs. We take care of our own in a fellowship which
embraces members in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Western Europe, Russia and Singapore (and those are just the countries
from which this editor has received correspondence.) We are, indeed, an international community and we can, each of us in a small way, respond to this attack; this heinous, cowardly act which is, finally, not just against the World Trade Centers or the city or state of New York, or even the United States of America, but against the whole of humanity. The amount of damage to the telecommunications and IT infrastructure which were housed in the basement levels of the WTC is, tonight, not known and may take many days to assess, but it will have to be repaired, and quickly, to minimize the damage to the American economy. Many of you who read this publication have skills which could help with those repairs. If you can, offer your help when that time comes. Even if you never step foot on site, such an offer, made in good faith, will bolster the spirits of those who are at ground zero. For those of our readers who are Americans, show by both your words and your actions that our fellow countrymen of the Islamic faith are indeed our countrymen and have no connection to the madmen who attacked us today. Embrace them; stand with them; our loss in this is truly their loss as well. We are, after all, Americans together. Finally, I would ask all of our readers around the world to please join me in setting a lighted candle in your window and offering such prayers as you see fit to remember the fallen and the loved ones who mourn them. Let us answer those who create darkness and destruction with light, compassion and hope.
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