by Tobias Van Buren

Created on: September 11, 2008

MY TRIBUTE TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND EBASCO SERVICES, INC. WHERE I WORKED

September 11, 2008 -

This is a WORLD TRADE CENTER tribute I wrote right after the 9/11 attacks. There are a very few areas where I wrote post-script (more recently.)

September 12, 2001

Mayor Giuliani:

Thanks so much for pulling us New Yorkers together at such a time like this! I may have under-estimated you as mayor before, but I sure do not now! You are the FDR of our time and surely deserve another term as Mayor! Remember me? I'm the one who sent you that picture of me dressed as Greta Garbo with two REAL women, remembering how you'd dressed up as a woman - remember? It was in the papers. Also, I went to Gracie Mansion when you honored Disabled Americans about a year or so ago, when it poured! I had received an invitation in my Late Mother's name - Evelyn Krulan, who was deaf most of her adult life. God bless you Rudy! Thanks for being there; thanks for continuing to be there.

For me personally, I might title this "The World Trade Center - 1979-1995 (My16 YEARS WORKING there for Ebasco Services, Inc. - RAYTHEON for the last two years)." Before going into my own story of what the Trade Center/Ebasco meant to me, I just want to say a few things: To begin, I would like to use FDR's December 8, 1941 address to the nation, with some changes to adapt it to what happened yesterday, September 11, 2001.

Yesterday, September Eleventh, Two Thousand One, a second day which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by terrorist forces pretty much of known origin. It is obvious that planning the attacks began many months ago, perhaps years, during the intervening time their terrorist harboring governments had deliberately sought to deceive the United States on false statements and expressions of hope for peace. The attacks yesterday on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC have caused severe damage to American civilian and military personnel and structures. I regret to tell you that perhaps over 3,000 American lives may have been lost, and many more maimed, and the psychological damage. No matter how long it may take us to overcome these premeditated attacks, the American people in their righteous might will win true to absolute victory.

Because of this un-provoked, dastardly attack by these terrorists, including all those who've harbored them within their borders, I ask all Americans' support in what is obviously an

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