From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #231 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Monday, September 17 2001 Volume 03 : Number 231 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: 3 Minutes Silence [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:02:54 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: 3 Minutes Silence It was touching to read all the messages re: the American terror and this list in the past few days. Sadly, it now seems inevitable that I have lost work associates but my best mate's mother has been traced. I was reading about the 3 minute silence and endorse all the comments. I tend to be cynical and hard bitten towards them because the aftermath of the Princess Diana death is that the UK suffers with a syndrome of ridiculously mourning anybody who dies in a way that would never have happened previously. At football matches, which I attend every week, the 1 minute silence (they only ever happened on rememberance Sunday until recent years) now seems to occur once a month. Last week, we do to have a minute silence for a football commentator who died of old age, it's getting that silly. But I have to say that the 3 minute was one of the most poignant and eerie (if that's the right word) experiences of my life. I'm sure we've all identified with this attrocity because it's ordinary, innocent victims who were murdered in such numbers and horrific fashion as well as the utter devastation and the impending impact this will result from it. The 3 minutes was quicker than I thought it and very vivid too with so many images from this week and a couple of lost collegues on my mind. I have a pic of my girls on my workdesk so focussed on them which made it easier. I don't know about anyone else but this week made me focus on being lucky for what I have and realise I want and cherish in life, a moving experience. There's 5 of us sharing the small office within my workplace but we look out on everybody else (a workforce of about 200). We had the radio on so we knew when it started/finished. It was strange as the clocks on our phones in the office are a couple of minutes fast so we effectively started when everyone else did but finished after them. Although we started working again, none of us have said a word for ages, all still keeping silence hoping someone would call us or come in as none of us wanted to be the first to speak. That was 20 minutes later in an office where you can't shut us up for 20 seconds normally. A week we'll never, ever forget. Nigel But life goes on ... so to Joe Brady who concluded a posting by saying: "joe brady" BE HAPPY,SUPPORT Q.P.R!!!!! Joe, I'm going to be more very happy. I'll be at QPR in 9 days supporting the opposition, Cardiff City. Nothing will make me happier than the win we'll be coming away with. Blooooooooooooobirds!! ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #231 **********************************