Hello Andreas and fellow Squeakers,

As a New Yorker, I thank you you for your kind words. Given the ethnic make up
of this city, and especially the make up of the WTC neighborhood, I am sure that
people the world over may have lost someone yesterday.  Given the overburdened
phone system, there are still friends for whom I haven't accounted.

Despite the dread that many of us feel today, I agree that our work becomes all
the more important. While I am new to Squeak, I am quickly becoming a veteran of
efforts for learning reform, especially efforts that promote a technology-based
learning environment. I see Squeak as the best platform for enabling and
encouraging cooperative and collaborative learning, especially when it comes to
cultural and, consequently, political understanding. Let's keep that foremost in
our minds as we forge ahead.

Thanks again,

John Voiklis
http://www.redfigure.com


> Message: 17
> From: "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: [OT] This horrible day
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:09:23 -0700
> Reply-To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>
> Dear friends and collegues,
>
> The shocking incidents of today make it important for me to say two things:
> First of all, I wish to express my sadness about what happened in New York
> and D.C. and I am sure that all of the World is with the U.S. in this hour.
>
> The second issue, which is actually far more important, is that we are in
> fact working here for a better future - a future in which such horrible
> incidents don't happen, a future in which our children will live and learn
> in peace. Computers - the internet - can help to understand other cultures
> better, can help to understand problems of regions far away better, can help
> to raise our attention to both, tragedies and threats from parts of this
> world seemingly far away.
>
> Let us not get distracted by these horrible incidents. Let us work for a
> better future for all of us, and our children.
>
> My prayers are with the families of all the people in the New York and D.C.
> area. Although the world will never be as it was yesterday, we can still
> work to make it a *better* world than before. What I've seen and heard today
> is in fact giving more hope than one would expect in such an hour.
>
>   - Andreas
>
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