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by **David Butte** » Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:33:52

>> ...It is the biggest one-day loss
>> of life on US soil since Antietam in 1862.
> David,

> Now this is an interesting fact. Did you actually know
> this yourself, or did you hear it someplace? I only
> ask because in all the media coverage so far in the U.S.,
> I've never heard it mentioned.

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Got it off the radio. As to you not hearing it in the US, I'm very
surprised to hear that - I'd have thought it would be something
mentioned often over there, especially with all the talk of war in
the air right now.

I have a dreadful fear that my remarks may prove not to be true,
though - about 23,000 people died at Antietam (figures from John
Bodin's post in this thread), and the estimates for the dead we're
getting over here start at 5,000 and go anything up to 40,000.

And one more grim statistic - it seems certain that this will be the
most Britons killed in any terrorist outrage - Jack Straw, our
Foreign Secretary, has predicted that the final toll will be at least
in the "middle hundreds", and at least one newspaper has said 1,000.

If it's of interest, I got the Antietam statistic first from BBC
Radio 5 Live, which I have on pretty much all the time at the moment.
It's a news and sport station, but obviously there's a lot more news
than sport right now. Anyone who's interested in how the UK is
covering things could do a lot worse than to have a listen:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

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by **Gill Bate** » Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:21:15

that is NOT STRANGE

did you note how some people on the street behaved
in the LIVE coverage ???

it is almost like business as usual..........??
or is it just new yorkers.

> > This local woman (Spokane Washington in the upper NW corner of the USA)
> >called in a Radio talk show and complained that all her SOAP OPERA TV
shows
> >were being interupted by the continuing coverage of the disaster.
> > The host was flabbergasted and gave her a chance to pull back , he
asked
> >her if she didn't care that maybe 30,000 Americans could be buried in the
> >rubble of the WTT. "Don't you care about them?" he asked....
> > She paused a moment and then said...
> > 'Well...No I don't'
> > The radio host promptly cut her off and shut her off.
> >We Americans can be a strange lot.
> >dave henrie

> Hopefully this is simply someone who really wanted to hear her voice
> on the radio and thought of the most outrageous thing that she could
> in order to do so. It is unimaginable to me that a fellow human being
> could actually feel this way at a time like this. I prefer to think
> that it is simply not possible (no matter how closed minded and
> misguided that notion might be.)

> Todd Walker

> twalker at jam dot rr dot com
> http://twalker.d2g.com/gpl

by **GraDe** » Sun, 16 Sep 2001 03:52:10

Well,
Sometimes you get people using this sort of thing to get some attention....
just like Trolls in Usenet.... what ca you do..it's a strange world.

by **George Majo** » Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:36:29

Man that woman is an idiot.

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by **Eldre** » Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:35:19

writes:

You mean the people behind the commentators smiling and waving trying to get on
TV? I was saddened by that... WTF is WRONG with people...?

I really think the same might have happened in ANY big city. In a smaller one,
the community would be more close-knit.

Eldred

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by **Ian Greenwoo** » Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:00:01

oh yeah and to the US friends that i have made down the years on this
forum and in the Nascar2/3/4 & GPL/VROC fraternities, most people in
the UK are right behind your great country and thinking of you at
this time.

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:19:49 GMT, Gary Stephenson

>In my local newspaper today, they went to the local university and asked
>some students the question "How do you feel about the attacks on
>America?" One of our brightest commented "I don't care much. Hopefully
>it should roll over like anything else." Thankfully, the other nine
>students who's responses were published indicated that they felt
>SOMETHING about the tragedy. Maybe there is some hope for the future.

>Gary

>> I was listening to talk radio on this the day after the WTT attack. Lots
>> of outraged callers, lots of touchy feely types that thought retaliation
>> would lower ourselves to their level. BUT ONE WOMAN STOLE THE SHOW. I
>> would guess by the sound of her voice she was somewhere in the 40's to 50's
>> range in age. Thats just a guess tho...but here is what she called in
>> for...

>> This local woman (Spokane Washington in the upper NW corner of the USA)
>> called in a Radio talk show and complained that all her SOAP OPERA TV shows
>> were being interupted by the continuing coverage of the disaster.
>> The host was flabbergasted and gave her a chance to pull back , he asked
>> her if she didn't care that maybe 30,000 Americans could be buried in the
>> rubble of the WTT. "Don't you care about them?" he asked....
>> She paused a moment and then said...
>> 'Well...No I don't'
>> The radio host promptly cut her off and shut her off.
>> We Americans can be a strange lot.
>> dave henrie

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