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Nessun Dorma, in New York City
September 11, 2001
Hello: Dear
Friend,
Glad to know that your friends in NYC are safe. I just thank heaven that the PKUers whom I know in NYC and DC are all safe! I sent email to my PKUer buddies in US, and got kind replies and thanks from nearly all of them, the only ones not replying are in California and Texas, where the really peaceful sunshine is generously shared to People. Zhiyi is apparently safe, and now at Shiningdays BBS we can see he has been surfing on US BBS for some time and selected pinpointed posts to paste there. Another PKU classmate at Columbia Law School said she'd stay in dorm and watch TV, which has been quite along her own way --- even in PKU she used to stay at dorm and reading all kinds of novels. Your classmate Tao Weiqiong was fine, as well, though she "saw the two buildings collapsed".... that's really sad experience. Arthur said, you must have already known, it's sad, awful and he'd go back GWU staying inside watching TV only. Anyway, DC was less damaged than NYC, at least psychologically. Another PKUer who's in DC today, was actually on the open road at that time, and he reported that the police were shouting people to "stop using your cell phones!". Everyone was really scared and knew nothing to do..... Poor teacher GE Yun-song. I just sent him a Teacher's Day greeting one day before, and he kindly asked me my recent life yesterday. Today he hurriedly to tell me take great care of myself. I happily thanked him and let him know that all his students in NYC and DC are still safe now. One of my UMKC classmates, her elder sister would have been on the airplane hitting into Pentagon today, if she had not had found another cheaper air-ticket online. Oh Lord, "that" ticket is not just "cheap" ---- it is precious, it's invaluable!!!! Worth a life!
You know, I have been living
in this country for two full years. I'm not one of the
Americans
and I am not a mainstream person (not just mean I am not Caucasian
(white people)), but I still sympathize with the people there in
NYC deeply. The city is just like Beijing, an
always-moving-on metropolitan, where people struggle and
hard-work everyday to earn their own food, to build up their
professions, to forward on the roads to their dreams. The
terrorists, no matter they are Americans or Mid-Easterns or
whatever foreigners, are really sick ill ugly ones. Those
crazy people, no matter what their object or goal is, just
for their sucking dark purpose, terminated hundreds of
thousands human lives in the most cruel some and damaging
way. Thousands people must have died
Both the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon are places I have seen
with my own eyes two years ago. At that time, I was one of
the twenty-millions gathering at the Time Square in the
center of New York City on Y2K night. That was the time when
all kinds of rumor circulating around, speaking of possible
terrorism attacks. How about there was something happen
then? Simply -- I wouldn't be sitting here writing this
email or editing this website.
Alas, let's get something inspiring. How about the CNN host, the old man (looks around 50-60 yrs old) standing high by a window (or in the open air) of another high building? With the smoking WTC behind as the background, he still reminded and encouraged eligible people to donate blood at the designed hospital in NYC and DC. Maybe it's not his own idea, but of the program editors. However, I don't think any CCTV staff or program editor can have a calm spirit as CNN people. Or maybe the CCTV is less to care about THAT. When NYC Mayor Mr.Guiliani inspected in the evacuated Manhattan zone, not much bodyguards or accompanying officers, not like our Chinese communist comrades.
Well, some one would like to refer me as "pro-US". Anyway, I'm coming here to see more, to know more and to learn whatever I'll have opportunity to learn. Even the "Qin1 Chai1 Da4 Chen2" sent by Qing Emporors knew to learn from the grassroots and local officials in the old days, I really don't NEED to hide my interest in pursuit of improvement in academic and personality cultivation.
In the TV, NYC is 00:13
midnight now. All the city are still lighting. Just
like the dear old New York who has been standing there
behind the Statue of Liberty for a hundred years.
Don't just see
that I say so
much good words of NYC, for the President, he didn't do a
good job. What's the purpose for hiding off during the day
time, and broadcasting a pre-recorded speech in a secret air force
compound? What's the hell that "we don't
know where the President is, at present"? He should
jump off from his holiday camps and directly head back
to the White House, just across the Potomac River, where the
smoking Pentagon lying only three miles away. Even if
the terrorists will launch another suicide bomb
aircraft to the White House, he himself, even if single, should go
back and deliver a live speech to the whole nation and people. W
Bush should learn from the communist Joseph Stalin, who
insisted to stay inside Leningrad with the Russian soldiers
and people. W Bush should learn from the predecessor to his
Dad, the Democratic President
Jimmy Carter, and Mrs.Carter, when the nuclear stuff leaked, the Carters
went to the spot and inspected.
Bush's statement was
still good (who knows whether he himself wrote it or not?).
It began with "Today the Freedom is attacked by
faceless cowards, and the Freedom will defend it". The
Freedom will defend it, that's what I hope.
However, indeed,
today, the Freedom is attacked by Best, Xixi @ Kansas City |