I hope nobody minds my posting this. It was posted on the Dulcimer Board. I really think it’s a great idea…lest we forget these men & women who are still digging tirelessly through the rubble for any shred of remains.
A follow up message suggested perhaps a postcard would be better due to the Anthrax scare. it seems to me it is the least we can do. How bout it gang ! Gm
On the news, they are saying that the firemen are getting discouraged
because they have not found anyone is more than a week. They leave out
the part about the horrific conditions and sights they see, but through
it all, they go on and on and on and on…
So here is an idea: A Card-Writing Campaign. Go out to your local
Hallmark (or wherever it is you by your greeting cards) and buy a card
that reflects what your feelings are about their heroic efforts and send
it to them at:
NYC Fire Department
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005
Just think how powerful this message can be. If all of you send this
e-mail to everyone you know, and they send it to everyone they know and
if
all of the people who get this note send a card, we can be the start of
a
miracle. Kind of like when the Post Office delivers all the mail
addressed
to Santa to Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.
Lets start our own miracle. Lets show these brave men how we feel about
them. They need our love, support and encouragement.
Dear GM,
Again your good and kind heartbeat is heard among the whistles.
We must remember the heros who are still doing their heroic jobs. Thanks for reminding us. God bless them. God bless you. And America!
There is no real need for a card campaign, the world has told FDNY and NYPD what they think of heroes who risk their lives, and it is about time. I speak as a New Yorker, although I’ve live in Jersey for the last six years. The cheers and salutes our uniformed services have gotten from their fellow New Yorkers have, to some extent I hope, overridden the second guessing they have been subjected to by politicians and activists over recent years.
About a year ago six FDNY firemen, including a Lieutenant, were killed in an arson fire in Brooklyn (or Queens), they were looking for people who were said to be trapped - the report may have been a lie, or a mistake, but they died doing the same thing as the firefighters and police on 9/11. Read Kipling’s “Tommy Atkins”, and reflect.
Let this comment not be read as any lessening of the heroic actions of NYPD and FDNY on 9/11 (and ironic, if one removes the slash it is 911), but let it draw attention to the fact that they have been doing this for a long time. Sometimes they make mistakes, and there is the ocassional bad apple in the basket, but the men that had a six story building collapse on them looking for three people were the same as the hundreds of men looking to save thousands.
Recognize them all, the one in your town and the hundreds in mine. Each has made an individual decision to risk his life to save the life of another. Numbers make it more horrific, but each individual is a life and a world, and a decision to value honor and commitment to service above personal survival.
Send your cards to your local fire department, they take the same risks in mineature, but each individual is equally important.
I’m glad to know you are still among the living Jon Murphy…I’ve been wondering about you. I appreciate your views and you are absolutely right. We should appreciate our own firemen and policeman more than we do. The fact remains that these men and women (I presume)in NYC are still doggedly searching through the rubble. For the sake of their morale…it certainly couldn’t hurt to let them know they’re still thought about. And while I’m at it, I will send a card of appreciation to our local fire fighters and law enforcement personell. And just for you Jon…I’ll sign my name. Betty
I returned yesterday from a week at Ground Zero (working in a support role, not actually digging). The Red Cross support centers there have cafeteria style set-ups for all the workers, including the firefighters, police, construction crews, etc., and they leave cards and letters(mainly from schoolkids across the country) on the tables, so the workers can read them while they eat lunch or take a coffee break. Cards addressed simply to the Red Cross, Ground Zero, World Trade Center, NY NY (yes, that will get it there) can then be shared with all the rescue/recovery workers in this way.