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  6 Initial Proposals (1st of 5 pages of memories)  Getting the
news about how many people died ... how they died ... seeing
their families on TV crying and begging for anyone to contact
them about their missing family members.  I'll never forget a
16-year old girl holding her father's picture up to a news
camera crying and talking and wiping her tears, shaking,
pleading for any news about her father. She kept saying his name
"David. DAVID! His name is David." Knowing that 3000 families
felt her desperation still gets me.  On the flip side, I was
living in a neighborhood in Hudson County, NJ that is largely
populated with immigrants typically displaying flags from their
home land. Before the day was through,