my last OT post, I promise

[Joy M]

No: HPFGUIDX 26299

One of the most painful and poignant parts of last week's tragedy, 
for me, has been reading the biographies of the victims that appear 
every day in the paper.  Little things make me cry – the man on the 
DC-LA flight who, with his wife and kids, recently moved to Virginia, 
and was on his way back to LA to pick up the family's golden 
retriever.  The people who called and faxed and e-mailed their 
families that there was a fire and they were evacuating the WTC and 
were never heard from again.  The DC school kids and teachers on a 
National Geographic-sponsored trip, who must have been so proud to 
have been chosen.

I read today about a woman named Rhonda Rasmussen who worked at the 
Pentagon, who with her husband was planning on moving to California.  
According to today's Washington Post: "He will go to California alone 
now, and he won't have Rhonda to read to him along the way.  `She 
read to me, anything,' Floyd Rasmussen said.  `We just started 
reading Harry Potter; we'd read to each other or she'd read as we 
drove.' "

--Joywitch