"How far reaching did the attack affect you?"

o - Four upper-level management types and one regular
employee from Raytheon Corp. were aboard the flight
that crashed into the Pentagon - a friend of mine and
his wife still work for that company.

o - A noted book-writer and political researcher
Barbera Olson was also aboard that same flight - she
wrote a book in '99 called 'Hell To Pay' that covered
the politcal shenanigans (sp?) of the last 8 years,
she was a guest on the Sunday morning talking heads
shows. We will never get to hear her well-researched
opinions again ...

Jim



----- Original Message -----
From: "Quentin" <qsc@ICON.CO.ZA>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: [OT]: How did the WTC attack affect you, technical wise?


> Other than the killing of innocent people, which has affected American
> members of this list and also other countries (A lot of foreigners died
> in WTC as well, including from here).
> How far reaching did the attack affect you?
> Me, here in Cape Town, SA. My internet was slowed down to a crawl, my
> service provider lost a 45 Meg circuit (international link) due to fibre
> optics being destroyed that ran near the WTC. All traffic has been
> rerouted, cloging up our national lines. Work wise, it took me two days
> to try and email my PCB files to my manufacturer and I had a tough time
> looking up data sheets and other info, including piclist.com.
> And a lot more trivial: I am going to miss viewing the beast of an
> aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, which was due to call on our port
> later this month and was now recalled.
> Small things, I know, but the tremors from this attack runs all over the
> world.
>
> Quentin
>
>

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