We are dedicating this page to the friends and families of
those killed or injured during the cowardly attack on an innocent American
civilian population on 9/11/01; also to the rescue workers and volunteers who
have given so much of themselves to help during this tragedy - some have given
all.
----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah Porter
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: MY TRIBUTE.......
IN MEMORY OF ALL THE AUSTRALIANS WHO WERE KILLED ON 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2001, IN THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY.
DEBORAH PORTER,
A PROUD BUT SAD AUSTRALIAN
The Day The World Cried
By David McKenzie
I cried on Tuesday. Well actually it was Wednesday morning that I cried as I woke up and turned on the TV. You see, I live in Australia and when I got out of bed the tragedy had happened only a few hours before.
As an Australian I am very proud and I love my country. But I have always known that as proud as I am about my country I am not as proud as Americans are about their country. Nothing in the world compares to the love Americans have for their country.
If there were a world champion pride competition, America would win it every year. Every Single Year!!
I have known this as long as I can remember. Americans are very proud people.
They sing their national anthem with passion. All of them. They hold their hands over their hearts when they sing it. They show their emotions to those around them. They are not afraid of what other people think of them because they are proud.
On this most tragic of all weeks, others have destroyed buildings and killed people in America.
But there is one thing they will never destroy which is America's greatest attribute.
PRIDE.
That's because it can never be done.
No-one will ever be able to destroy a nation that has so much pride.
As usual, Americans will pick themselves up and move forward with their unending positive attitudes.
Have you ever seen an American who does not have a positive attitude?
I haven't.
Even in the face of adversity they are positive people.
On the news last night I saw a man whose girlfriend was unaccounted for in New York. His voice was trembling as he spoke to the commentator. His girlfriend had been on one of the top floors of the WTC and he spoke to her twice by cell phone after the planes had hit the buildings. In the middle of the second call the line went dead and he did not speak with her again. Then the building fell down and he watched from the street. All hope was lost.
But no. All hope was not lost. This man, with his trembling voice trying to hold back the tears was talking of how his girlfriend was going to be found. He was saying that she could still be found. He kept a positive attitude for the outcome.
That defines Americans. No matter what happens they know how to continue on. They have an amazing self-belief as a people.
This self-belief cannot be broken.
It is why we in the rest of the world look to them as the leader. They have the pride, the self-belief and the positive attitude that we aspire to.
Well, most of us. Some others are jealous.
But jealously will never defeat pride.
The Day the World Cried - article by David McKenzie of http://www.brisney.com
From Persian - Heart of Gold - Australia
Subject: The World Perspective
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:39:17 -0400
Forwarded from an Australian living in America. He offers a broader perspective than what our media is giving us.
There is SO much to be said about the terrorist events in America this past week and I am sure I will write much over the coming weeks. However for now I want Americans to realize the INCREDIBLE outpouring of genuine support
and love from the rest of the world that is NOT being reported IN America. You are hearing bits of it, like how Buckingham Palace flew the
American flag and played the American anthem at changing of the guards, both for the
first time ever
Bill Clinton was in Australia when it happened and ironically the Prime Minister of Australia was in Washington, 600 feet from
the Pentagon. Immediately the whole country was locked down in case there was an attack against HIM (Clinton) . . . all
planes were grounded etc.
Also in Australia firemen across the country have volunteered to fly here to help. One, Mehar Maku wrote a beautiful song for
the American firemen to inspire and support them.
It goes on and on. World leaders everywhere giving speeches and interviews with tears in their eyes. Millions of people coming to US Embassies everywhere to pray, leave flowers and show support. Understand that the world is seeing this as more than an American event but as a HUMANITARIAN disaster that must never happen again. The world is joining hands, even hard core Arab countries, in their condemnation of this atrocity against humans and humanity saying it can never happen again, that we MUST do life on Earth differently and that we must find new answers.
Meanwhile here in America almost none of this is getting through in the media... the main message is "business as usual" which means " we are at war and will now go and kill a lot of people".... there is no thought of new approaches. We are told that Bush is gathering, building a coalition of
countries when in fact the world rushed to help.... bottom line the "story" we are getting IN America is VERY different to the rest of the world . . . which IS business as usual.
The thing that so saddens me is that America and Americans are missing the gift of PURE LOVE from the rest of the world - literally as part of the family of humanity - because they
are not being told of it through media.
What WE are being given is hard nosed facts and actions and NOT the huge heartbreaking world wide tragedy that this is and that we must cry, weep, scream and yell for and about so it does NOT happen again.... not by blowing the Arabs to hell but by finding NEW ways to work and live
together. It is nothing less than the challenge of our New Millennium. If we just bomb and kill our hurt out we will keep the cycle going as it has been for so long. Sure, get the bastards who did it, but THEN heal our world.
Find common ground or else NYC and DC will be the daily news from now on. The world is seeing America deeply wounded and is collectively coming to lick the world and help the healing and you don't even know!
PLEASE tell your friends. Please copy and distribute this to others so THEY know. Your media is not telling you this. I WANT Americans to know that the world REALLY IS with you... like on the streets in Australia and Europe and New Zealand and Canada and our so called enemies even, Yasser Arrafat was so heartfelt in his hurt and condemnation of these actions and then gave blood for the wounded. THINK ABOUT THAT!
The world is now literally in the New Age. It was baptized in blood, horror and shock and we must .... we MUST find a way to stop it everywhere.... people are still, days later, openly weeping, hugging, talking in the streets, in stores. No one has gone to work for days. Australia is shut down as everyone mourns and sends love and support and the rest of the world is doing the same thing too. Let it in America.
The world changed the other day. FOR EVER. We are having a hippie moment of collective "we are the world" love and recognition that on planet Earth there are no passengers, we are all crew.
The reaction to this in Australia is 10 times bigger than when Di passed away... it is huge everywhere!
EVERYONE cares. You are not alone America when so often you have been. Get that, please. You are cared about, cared for and accepted and embraced by humanity as part of us all... by the whole world who weeps for you, and for itself, for the madness we have sunk to, collectively.
Now lets end this madness we have been in for so long and find some REAL new answers to not just come together, but to stay together!
©2001 - Tomas Gregory - aspenastrologer.com
