Hope All Are Well

[Tuna]

We have located most of our employees by this time, although there are countless spouses, ex employess, friends and neighbors still unaccounted for at the World Trade Center. Communications are extremely difficult, with most news related web sites impossible to reach, mobile communications gone, land lines over extended. Email has been one of the few communications lines uneffected, but most of the concerns regard people we cannot reach in this manner.

This site continues to be easy to reach, so excuse the non albie report, but hope all is well with as many of you possible.

[Tuna]

Just heard my ex-boss, laid off several months ago and now working in WTC, made it out alive. In hospital with head injuries, but alive.

[fmw]

I too hope everyone who posts on this board is safe. I work downtown near the Seaport and walked off the subway at Fulton Street shortly after the planes crashed into the buildings. When the first tower collapsed, there was total panic in the streets. I know a few people who work in those buildings and pray they are ok. On one hand, it makes everything discussed on this board seem pretty damn insignificant. On the other hand, I sought out this site tonight because it reminds me of some things I really enjoy in life.

[Tuna]

This is beginning to sink in for me, as I saw his picture in People (pgs 14 & 15) yesterday and received an email from someone who had visited him in the hospital. In the picture, his head injury is not visible, but the injury to his arm is.

He is a part time EMS worker and, from the email I received, I understand he helped someone down from the 40th floor, and suffered his injuries on the street as one of the towers fell. Surgery on his arm was successful, and although he suffered bone chip from his skull, he should be all right with time. He thought he would be back to work Monday (yesterday), but his family has managed to hold him down for now.

The email also told of one other ex-employee I knew well, who also survived the ordeal.

I cried for the first time today, buying a copy of the magazine, as the image of my ex-boss standing there, blood dripping down his leg, a police officer pointing as if to say its time to get to a hospital, began to make what happened more real to me, and brought my thoughts quickly to someone I know who did not survive, and the countless others I did not know. I know my ex-boss will continue to press to go back to work (that is so like him) although hopefully he will be pursuaded to devote at least some time to his rehab.