[PRCo] Thanks Greg:

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Thanks Greg.

When you live 150 miles away from New York it is easy to believe you are
immune from the day's events.  Not true.  I've come to understand that
you can live in London or Melbourne and still be affected.   

My wife's youngest sister Adele and her husband are both living but
every much affected.  They live in Summit, New Jersey, in a very much
upper class suburb of New York.  Since banking is the major contributor
to high salaries in New York, and many of the people working in the
World Trade Center were in finance or insurance, it follows that it
could affect their neighborhood.  It did but it went deeper than just a
passing affect.  

My brother-in-law in in international banking. Steven didn't work in the
World Trade Center but most of his staff did and so did his boss.  He
could have been there had a meeting been scheduled for yesterday
morning.  His boss walked out to get a newspaper and is living.  Steven
himself had to sleep in a friend's apartment in New York last night
because there was no way out of the city. Not a major problem.  But that
whole floor in WTC disappeared and all of the people that worked for him
are somewhere in the rubble.  

Steven and Adele have two young children, ages 11 and 8.  Six of the
other children in their school no longer have parents.  Six that we know
of and that was only one of six elementary schools in Summit.  

I want to believe that my God is also in each and every one of your
churches or synagogues or temples too but events like this tend to
challenge one's beliefs.  I still want to believe that.