Dear Folks, This evening I was rearranging my files and such and as a result I came across a large box of old email printouts that I have been saving since 1996. BTW, yes I know that's excessive and I quite doing that in early 2002. But this evening I managed to sort them all out chronically, labled the individual stacks of them with the months/year and store them away nicely on an empty shelf I found in my bookcase containing such things. I noticed that omitted from those messages were some of them from 2000 and 2001. Those were messages posted to the NYNIAGAR list before our list was up and running and one of the subjects during 2000 was my fight against breast cancer which all of you at the time supported me 100% with your prayers and encouragement. However, I had already printed out every one of those emails and I had stored them in a special binder on the subject. But when it came to the year 2001, there was one subject I had never printed out at all. And that was the subject of the Attack on America, 9/11/01. As I recall all of us on the list were discouraged from discussing the subject on the list in that things might get out of hand. Nonetheless, many of us exchanged feelings between ourselves. Because of my difficulty at the time in handling my feelings about the horror of the attack and the aftermath, I never printed those emails out. However, I did save all of them in a special folder and eventually copied them to disk. So it looks like it's about time those messages got printed out and saved. The collection in itself is a primary history source telling how a few of us horrified and inflamed patriotic citizens felt on 9/11 and the weeks and months following the horrible aftermath. I'm certain that printing those messages out will still be difficult for me to handle even now but it's a part of American history that needs to be recorded. And trust me, they will be stored in a very special file. God bless America! vee