Posted by Mike Seaver on September 11, 2001 at 13:50:38:
In Reply to: Who's Doing What During The WTC Tragedy posted by Allan Sniffen on September 11, 2001 at 10:06:55:
MY GOD! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO! When Abe Lincoln said that cannon tracks would never be seen on the Blue Ridge Mountains, little could he have known about hijacked airplanes.
Our management team from the TV station were gathered at a lodge way out in the boonies of Calhoun County Illinois when the proprieter of the lodge informed us about the WTC tower being on fire....we immediately began watching only to see the horror escalate into the second plane purposely slamming into the next one! How utterly insane is this world!! I'm glad I'm getting old!
Here locally, in Quincy, IL, we have suspended all programming on both of the TV stations and are carrying NBC and CBS feeds respectfully. We are doing local "cut-ins" to direct residents of our 3-state area where blood drives are being held, where they can send donations and supplies, where to volunteer for Red Cross duty to go to New York City (we've already dispatched one group) and where people can go to pray for this country and those who lost their lives through this needless, cowardly attack! I suspect we will continue to do this until such time there isn't anything "new" to report.
God bless all of you in the area and especially those who may be touched in any way by this. For what it's worth, the 40,000+ residents of this community are all pulling and praying for all of your city's people.
This is a time when words just don't seem to say what needs to be expressed so I'll just say bless you all.