Connecting to Hope
Kim Pearson
Nearly 40 years ago, when the assassination of President Kennedy became the first national tragedy Americans collectively witnessed on television, columnist Marya Mannes wrote: "There are moments of such magnitude that they must be clearly remembered." On the morning of September 11, 2001, individual Americans and people around the world siezed upon the Internet, as well as television, radio and telephones as a way of making sense of madness. What we saw and heard seemed scripted by some B-grade Hollywood hack: first the news that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, then live images of a second plane, and the towers imploding, and then the word about the Pentagon and the rumors of elsewhere, and there were no words to be said, and no sense to be made, but we kept searching. Miraculously, as the telephone lines to New York and Washington crashed, e-mail kept working. So did the World Wide Web, although unprecedented demand cause repeated network clogging. Quickly, major news organizations around the world stripped their sites down to the bare essentials to ease network congestion. Like journalists around the world, we at The College of New Jersey quickly mobilized to cover the story. The results of that ongoing coverage will appear here and on the website of our campus newspaper, The Signal. May our efforts, and those of the media around the world, promote understanding and peace. If you would like to share your thoughts and stories, please visit our FORUM. REPORTS FROM GROUND ZERO
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-- contains several interesting links, including a
statement from
an
Arab-Israeli peace organization and commentary from the Japanese-American
Citizens League. (added 9-13-01) |
The 9-11 section of Prof. Janet
Gray's