:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 ::

hmmm...
And people wonder why we're there... This says a lot. After all, a picture's worth a thousand words, right?

I found a black and white version in Newsday here at home along with a couple of letters.

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The photograph of a mural at an Iraqi military building that shows a jetliner crashing into a high-rise building should have been the cover of the newspaper that day ["A Desert Reminder of Sept. 11", News, March 27]. Perhaps the headline could have read, "Is There a Link?" or, "Hmm, Could This Be Proof?"

As I walk past the houses in my community of parents who never made it home that sad day in September, my resolve grows ever stronger to assure that no one is ever again at the mercy of fanatical hatred.

No one is "pro-war". Unfortunately, the peace we have taken for granted all these years had to be fought for by our fathers and grandfathers.

Eileen Bellini
Manhasset, NY

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The next time anti-war protesters tie up traffic in New York City, throw bottles at police officers, and question why we are at war, they should be handed a copy of that photograph of the mural.

Bill Scheu
Shirley, NY

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Thursday morning while reading Newsday's coverage of the war, I was sickened to see the mural of the two high-rise buildings -- with one airliner smashing into it and another about to. Then I turned the pages and read in disbelief that Ikhlas Aljazani is outraged that Muslim and Arab immigrants are being questioned by the FBI ["Interviews Cause Outrage", News, March 27].

I, too, am outraged. My husband fled the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. These immigrants fled tyranny. They should consider it their civic duty to answer questions and provide any information they think will be helpful to the war on terrorism.

L.W. Trotta
Kings Park, NY

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There were very few people who weren't touched by what happened one and a half years ago. Two friends of Mom's from the SCCA were on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. I'm not "pro-war", but I understand that peace only comes after you struggle and fight for it. I'm not willing to sit back and wait to see if Iraq was going to pull a nuke out of its butt and use it on us. I'm not in support of taking the risk of another attack as bad as (or, God forbid, worse than!) 9/11. No thank you. I saw it once. I'd much rather see it prevented from happening again.