Isn't it odd that in this age of complex technology that hijackers were able to inflect all that damage using box knives? And isn't it odd that, with all this technology, rescuers are reduced to moving the rubble by hand one bucket at a time? And isn't it odd that the most requested items on Red Cross/FEMA lists are ordinary workclothes? Gloves, boots, underwear socks? Just something to think about.

-- Kelly Saderholm (Markelly@scrtc.com), September 15, 2001

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I think the reason they are moving the rubble by hand is not to miss any clues to identification of victims. Jo Ann

-- Jo Ann Weaver (hillfarm3@peoplepc.com), September 16, 2001.

Your absolutly right, Jo Ann, and of course rescue workers are using sophisticated equiptment to listen/detect for sounds-though I would put my money on the dogs! Its just that at a time when people keep saying how fantastic technology is and how it does everything, (I'm talking the last few years now)we still have to rely on human brains and human hands. I guess I'm just a techno-phobe.

-- Kelly (markelly@scrtc.com), September 17, 2001.

Low tech wins again. Also some "experts" were saying that this happened because the government depends way too much on high-tech for spying instead of infiltration. I possess Luddite tendancies on much of life. It it ain't broke, don't fix it. The human touch is still so very valuable.

-- Sandy Davis (smd2@netzero.net), September 17, 2001.