To Those Lit Members Outside the U.S.

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm feeling a need to thank you all for the recent good wishes and prayers, and I thought it was about time one of us extended our condolences to you for the many internationals who also lost their lives in the World Trade Center destruction.

Thank you also for your patience, and for bearing with us, as we wallpaper Literotica Red, White and Blue with our various AVs, poems, rhetoric and historical stanzas. I can't describe how shaken we were, and how angry and focused we are now, and how our sudden national unity and empathy has moved us to spontaneous and enormous demonstrations of patriotism.

I trust that we will all come together even closer in the years ahead.

 

[Gilly Bean]

I wish to say thanks for all the same. You guys have been very supportive in this time. Thank you.

 

[cymbidia]

I, too, would like to extend my immense gratitude to you, individually, for your show of support at this time for those of us who live in this country, and to your governments as well, for thier so-necessary unity with us at this time.

For my part, i especially want to thank the Canadians who have been so exceedingly supportive and sympathetic over the last few days to me, personally. We're divided by a border, true, but united in our residence on this continent. You've all been extraodinary in your kindness to us, to me. Thank you.

 

[OUTSIDER]

I think I can safely speak for a lot of the none US members when I say we truly feel pain and sorrow for your loss and we are only just realising our own loss as well, a lot of people from this country ( UK ) are missing and with the close links between the city of London and Wall street I think there are going to be many feeling the loss.


We are your friends and will do what ever is within our power to help stamp out this evil.

 

[alexander tzara]

Thanks. Everybody's pretty shaken up about it here.

 

[Wizard]

DCL, what a great thought....................

I also wish to say thank you for all the support and kind words you folks have shared with us................


"Thank you"

 

[ShyGuy68]

In my opinion I'm not really doing anything special, besides being there for those people I care for and call my friends. And I do have many friends in America.

It's just naturally for me to support those that I know who are sad, and show that I feel with them. And I do think that we in Europe have a lot to thank America for. And I also think that if it was the other way around, and it had happened somewhere in Europe, you - the Americans - would have done the same thing.

In Denmark the general feeling about what happened is that it's awful. But there are a also a few Palestine fugitives who live in Denmark who were celebrating after the attack happened, but they were all met with disgust from the most part of the community. A couple of students in a college who did just that, were thrown out shortly after the did it, because the leader wouldn't accept that kind of behaivor

I just checked the news, and we are lucky that there are only 5 Danes, and 5 Danish/American missing after what happened, but they are still being searched for in and around New York, and I'm hopeful that they'll be found.

 

[naudiz]

Just adding my voice to the gratitude and condolances.

You're a class act, DCL. Thanks for the post, and thank you, everyone who is sticking together right now, for preserving my faith in humanity at a time when it would be too easy to lose that faith.

To everyone who has lost someone, regardless of where you call home, you're in my heart, and I'm hoping for the best.

 

[Barb Dwyer]

I've been away from the board for a couple of days so it is difficult to catch up on all the wonderful sentiments that have been expressed here. But if the ones I have read so far are any indication, then allow me to add my expression of gratitude to the mix as well.

It is the very idea that we have been brought together as a result of our shared experience which this tragedy has thrust on us that gives us all strength. Your words help heal our wounds, soothe our battered psyches and provide virtual arms which envelop us in a loving embrace.

If we can accept this tragedy, deal with it and learn from it, then it will not have been in vain. We must not only examine our own mortality but focus on why we are here in the first place.

Hopefully, we will be able to find our place in the world and realize that we don't live in a vacuum. Perhaps we will all learn that we need to reach out to our fellow travelers. To smooth the way for them, lend a helping hand when necessary, to make a difference in someone else's life.

Maybe we will all learn that we need each other - and we need to make that human connection.

To all the members -European and others- thanks to you all for your words which have inspired, lifted, encouraged and strengthened me. It is through such communication that I feel a sense of togetherness and unity.

 

[sarahuk4]

Well actually Outsider said it all , i am in England aswell , and feel it deeply the same as Outsider does .......it has hit us all badly ........by the way Outsider did you see the service from St Pauls , it was beautiful ?............

God bless you all .......

 

[Nicole]

I don't often stop by anymore, but when this happened, I came here to let you all know that I was thinking of you and that you were and still are very much in my prayers.

I do believe that this was a hit on any free speaking country, and we have all lost out, BUT, America and Americans lost so much more ... sadly an innocence that a lot of people didn't think America had has been lost.

The world will suffer for what one sick idiot has done to it.

I don't pray, I lost faith a long time ago, but these past few days have been filled with tears and prayer for all that have lost, wether that be in the USA or around the world.

I still sit in hope that more people will be saved, but just as they say they have rescued someone, I think of the families and friends that have just been told the bad news.

This is something that will continue to stay with all of us for the rest of our lives.

My heart and thoughts are right there with you, and I will continue to pray for many months to come.

Peace be with all.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Well actually Outsider said it all , i am in England aswell , and feel it deeply the same as Outsider does .......it has hit us all badly ........by the way Outsider did you see the service from St Pauls , it was beautiful ?............

God bless you all .......

I watched the rerun on the 8pm news, it was a good service and the choir sang the US national anthem really well I thought.

 

[Ask For More]

I think Outsider spoke for all of us....one of my closest friends reported in yesterday after two days of worrying, so I'm pretty relieved at the moment.

Our prayers go out for those who are still missing.

 

[OUTSIDER]

I think Outsider spoke for all of us....one of my closest friends reported in yesterday after two days of worrying, so I'm pretty relieved at the moment.

Our prayers go out for those who are still missing.

Ta mate

 

[Ask For More]

Don't mention it

Did you make any of the services? I work late so I actually slept through everything this morning and I didn't even know it was happening...otherwise I would have got up for it.

 

[pabloback]

we are all in this together

 

[OUTSIDER]

Don't mention it

Did you make any of the services? I work late so I actually slept through everything this morning and I didn't even know it was happening...otherwise I would have got up for it.

I'm not really big on organised religeon so I just tend to send my best thought's in my own way but I can totaly understand why people need the comfort of a priest at a time like this.

 

[Ask For More]

I might go down to the temple if I have time and say a prayer.

 

[lavender]

 

[Debbie]

Thank you for your appreciation, I wish that those of us who are outside America could do more than we are. But I *hug* you all and say again my heartfelt thoughts are with you all.

 

[Nighthunter]

*hugs Deb* thanx, you don't know how much you "just being there" has helped, I want to thank all of the ppl that have send help, or wishes of hope

 

[Renegade]

Just wanted to join in with everyone else and say thank you also for your support. It's truly a great thing to see when so many countrys come together in support like what we've seen in the past week. Again, thank you.

 

[Basia]

Words cannot express the overwheling gratitude that I am feeling right now. Thank you is simply not enough anymore. I work for a toy store, and this evening, all of our lights shut off and we went outside for fourty five minutes holding our own candle light vigil. I have never seen so many people stop their cars and get out to stand at our side before.

Right before we went out, there was a double rainbow in the sky. I don't know about anyone's beliefs or anything, but I think it was some divinity trying to say "Don't worry so much. Everything is going to be okay."

 

[Cheyenne]

Wallpaperer of Literotica with Red, White and Blue, patriotic avatar user, poem poster, rhetoric reciter and historical stanzas cut and paster here. Yup, I've done them all. It is helping me to deal with the tears.

Thanks to you all.

 

[Angel]

In my opinion I'm not really doing anything special, besides being there for those people I care for and call my friends.

You are doing something special and significant.