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Vicki,
as we New Yorkers face the difficult task of regrouping and getting on with ;ife (those of us fortunate enough to be able to) hearing from tose of you in Oklahoma City is inspiring and a big help.

We are starting a new program to help raise funds for search and rescue dogs and training and their support.

We are pairing families with people who want to genrously give to a specific family, or kind of family...

we are busy, but still numb.

as I review this board each day, as Executive Director of WiredPatrol, I am proud to be an American, and to know that others around the world feel our pain, and are here ot share that pain and help.

to all of you out there...your kind words and prayers keep us going....the families have asked us to express that they too have received so much comfort from your words.

You are all angels....

Parry Aftab
New York, USA - Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 00:24:15 (EDT)

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Hi all, my name is Vicki, and I live in Oklahoma City. When in 1995, I watched our federal building crumble and burn, I could only sit by numbly for the first while, unbelievingly. Thinking nobody can hate this much, people are inherently good. Then as I came to realize, it had happened, and it was happening, and people Were dead, and dying, and hurting and crying, I couldn't say anything. I could only sit and watch as tears streamed down my face. But then, as Oklahomans do, and as Americans must do, I decided that although the doers of these evil deeds are real, and have done these terrible, unthinkable things, that my first thoughts were right. People ARE good, and that it was our duty to prove this again and again to those that want to see all that is great about this country destroyed. For it is not our huge buildings, or bridges, or any man made thing that is what makes America great, it is our spirit. I am lucky enough to work for Feed the Children, so I have a way to feel like I am helping with any disaster. I think that is what helps me heal from these evil things men can do. I have a way to help.
New York and Washington, DC will rise out of these ashes. We WILL show these doers of evil that Americans cannot be beaten by terrorism, or hatred, or any evil thing. We are Americans, and with each other, our leaders, and our God, we can survive anything.
The OKC Bombing showed McVeigh, his followers, the country, and probably most important, each individiual person that we are strong enough to handle whatever comes.
I trust that the leaders of this country are doing what they have to do to protect us, its people. Our job at this point is to do WHATEVER is necessary to help New York City, and Washington, DC, and anyone else unable to help themselves thought these horrible deeds.
Sometimes the best way for us to heal ourselves is to concentrate on helping someone else.
I reach out with love to my fellow Americans, and to all people hurt by this or any other tragedy. I know what I went through in 1995, and I can't even begin to imagine what those in NY and Washington, DC are feeling. OKC was barely a blip when compared to these horrible, horrible things.
I pray to God that He helps everyone do what has to be done, and I know that He had his hands on those airplanes, and those buildings, and all in them, as they went through this terror.
As reality sets in, and the numbness goes away, the people involved in this will hurt, as the entire country is hurting. But whereas we have the insulation of distance, the New Yorkers and residents of Washington DC & the Pentagon do not. This will go past the core and beyond the deep.
I just want everyone to feel the support from Oklahoma City, and from around the world.
Thanks so Much

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