I don't consider myself to be a particularly eloquent man, but the events today have compelled me to step forward and express my feelings briefly, even if only through the medium of email to the recipients on this list.

I have spent the last several hours after getting home from work, doing as I'm sure many of you have been doing, watching the coverage of this act of terrorism and the response by America and the people of New York.  It still feels unreal to me, that such a tragic event of this magnitude has taken place anywhere in the world, let alone here in the United States.  That human beings could perpetrate such an act of cold-blooded and cowardly mass murder, using innocents as both the weapons and the targets in an act of terrorism, leaves me stunned.  I cannot believe what has just happened to this country.

This is one of those defining moments in human events when history turns an unexpected corner, affecting the world for decades to come.  The rules have now changed.

I am afraid, and I am angry.

I also realize that sending this email through the list could get me tempbanned, but at the moment I really don't care.  Writing and reading fanfiction seems like such a small thing now.  I guess, in a way, this was a wake-up call for me to be more aware of the world outside anime fandom.

Thank you for reading.  I just needed to vent.
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