RE: View from the UK

["Andy Leisk" <ALeisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Saw the memorial service at St. Paul's on CSpan this morning - it was live so 
very early in the morning here.  Great that so many in the UK are taking this 
as seriously as those of us in these United States.  I noticed that the 
memorial service also started with Star Spangled Banner.  Commentator mentioned 
that it was the first time that tune had ever been sung in that church.

But one very minor . . .
well, our company has facilities in Ireland (I realize its not part of the UK 
but its close) and they are closed because of a day of mourning over the 
tragedy here - and yet we here in these United States are working . . . does 
something seem funny about this picture or is it just me.

Andy Leisk
Senior Programmer Analyst
Banta Global Turnkey Group
Menasha WI USA
Phone: 920-751-4434




-----Original Message-----
From: David.X.Kahn@gsk.com [mailto:David.X.Kahn@gsk.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:17 AM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: View from the UK


A three minute silence was held across the country this morning at eleven
o'clock local time. Flags on public buildings are at half mast.

Between four and five hundred Britons are thought to be among the missing
at the WTC.

For the first time in its history NATO has invoked a clause in its charter,
declaring that an attack on any single member nation of the alliance is an
attack on all.

Many Americans in the crowd outside Buckingham Palace were visibly moved
yesterday when the band of the Coldstream Guards played the Star Spangled
Banner in an unprecedented alteration to the changing of the guard ceremony
personally ordered by the queen.  During the ensuing two minute silence the
Duke of York, representing his mother, stood shoulder to shoulder with the
US ambassador, William Farish. Her Majesty later returned from Balmoral to
be able to attend a special memorial service today.

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