I'm fine and have heard back from friends and family in New York and DC.
And, actually, easy enough to create the Obligatory Blake's 7 reference here. I don't think the "Is Blake a Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist" thread will be resurrected for a long time. This wasn't about an attempt by someone to alleiviate their own conditions-- it was an act of cruelty. Bayban the butcher, might do something like this, not Blake.
Checking in from Boston--where there's rather more activity afoot than in much of the rest of the country (except NY, Washington and Pennsylvania of course), due to the fact that two of the hijacked flights involved in the incident originated here. Also, a disproportionate number of victims *aboard the airliners* were from the New England area. To the best of my knowledge, no one I know personally was involved. But the local TV has been broadcasting a steady parade of heartbreaking interviews with victims' relatives...
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