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Impressions from Ground Zero: (CLICK YOUR BROWSERS "BACK" BUTTON WHEN FINISHED)
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Crisis brings out the best and the worst in people. This we
saw during the Bombing of our great city. Here in New York it has brought
best of the best in people and the worse of the worst in people.
As I walk the streets of this vast city I see posters, hundreds of them, with pictures of the missing, most with a heart rendering appeal to help find them. The closer I get to Ground Zero the more posters I see. Not just hundreds, but thousands of them. The posters alone give a measure to the magnitude of this disaster. Without a doubt this has been a time when New Yorkers rushed to help and succor New Yorkers. Heroes here have been aplenty. The motto of New York City's finest says, "We rush in while others rush out." This they did and died, but in the process saved 25,000 of their fellow New Yorkers. But then, there are the others, the scum, the sadist, the perverted. Can you imagine having spent hours of anguished waiting and desperate searching for a mother, a father, a son or a daughter and receive a call that your loved one has been found and waiting for you at the Red Cross center - only to arrive and find that it was a macabre joke?. Or to receive a call that tells you your loved has been seen - with Saint Peter, followed by fiendish laughter? This only makes the unbearable hurt more unbearable. It is bad enough to try to break one's body, it is far worse to try to destroy their souls. The Shadow used to say, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men." Gratefully, the best of New York has far overshadowed the worst.
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