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My
husband’s union, SEIU 1199, which represents SU employees, also
represents many of the workers both at the Pentagon and the World
Trade Center, who are janitors, window washers, etc...300 are presumed
dead, thousands have lost their jobs. These are poorly paid people
who will probably not enjoy the government handouts being given
to wealthy businesses to rebuild. The union is raising funds for
their relief. Despite our sadness about the victims, we are completely
opposed to U.S. military action against countries in the Middle
East, Asia, or Africa over this terrorist act. There is no justification
for wantonly taking innocent life or for destroying the infrastructure
in very poor countries. Such a plan will never work as a deterrent
to future terrorism, it will only ensure its continuance for at
least another generation.
Linda Alcoff
Professor of Philosophy
Syracuse, New York
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When I woke up today and realized I had not dreamt this,
I was overcome with a profound sense of sadness....These terrorists
struck at the symbolic heart of America—its business and its bounty—its
World Trade Center. I now regard those thousands entombed in the
towers as martyrs to the American dream and the American cause.
I see them entombed in a destroyed American symbol—which must
now be rebuilt by the nation. As a New Yorker, it is something
I will expect and insist on from our government and its citizens.
I want a national response.
Raymond von Dran, Dean,
SU School of Information Studies
Syracuse, New York
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John
Trever ’65 Reprinted by permission of the Albuquerque Journal
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Every thought that is not of the tragedy seems to
me like a horribly selfish waste of my thoughts. So I watch,
and I wait. For what, I’m not certain. Whatever it is, I’m
sure it’s worth waiting for because time has stopped for
me. “Business as usual” is a phrase that today sounds awkwardly
optimistic, but what I wouldn’t pay for September 11 to
have been just “business as usual.”
Michael R. Sandy ’03
Rochester, New York
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We
have prayed to our Buddha in the temple for your families’
well-being.
Kwang-Berm Lee
former SU student
Korea
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I
hope that the world will see us as a people who picked ourselves
up, dusted ourselves off, and continued to carry the flag
of hope to the rest of the world.
Wilder J. Leavitt ’86
Bethesda, Maryland
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Doug
MacGregor ’79 Reprinted by permission of the Fort Myers News-Press
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