[PRCo] Re: Tragedy

[Bob Rathke]

Thanks, Greg.

Bob 9/12/01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg King" <tramway at alphalink.com.au>
To: <sfmunihistory at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <SSVRR at aol.com>; <RBatt600V at aol.com>; "Paul Copeland"
<pacopeland at home.com>; "JVE" <PCC7407 at webtv.net>;
<pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:12 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Tragedy


> To all friends and list members,
>
> Without even checking my E-mails, I just want to get this off to our
friends, the American people. What happened yesterday was the most shocking
act of treachery I have ever seen, we thought/hoped that the worst of this
cowardly sickening murder, had dissapated after the terrible Lockerby Pan Am
bombing. My family and I have some idea of what fear of terrorism is, we
were in New Orleans in 96 and about to fly out to London the next day when,
the news broke of TWA flight 200 going down, the first reports were a
terrorist bomb or missile, we were on edge all the way from Dulles to
London. We were later in my wifes' home country, the former Yugoslavia and
saw first hand the devastation wrought on those people.
>
> I particularly feel for the flight crews and their families, being a pilot
myself (though not for a living), I know those crew were either dead or
incapacitated at some stage before the course change, no pilot would allow
that to happen, witness the many occassions where a crippled aircraft has
been steered away from populated areas only to cost the crew their lives,
it's not heroism, it just comes with the territory and I know those pilots
would have fought to the death to avoid what was going to happen.
>
> Lastly, I would like to express my familie's and my most sincere and heart
fealt condolances to my firends over there, to the members of the lists and
indeed to all Americans in this, yours and the world's darkest hour, I can
only hope that none of you have lost loved ones or friends in the terrible
barborous act.
>
> Let us all hope that, the perpertrators of this insanity are quickly
identified and brought swiftly to justice. Our thoughts are with you all.
>
> Greg and Senka King
> and family.
>
>