Before I left for work this morning a very nice person posted a suggestion
to wear red, white, and blue ribbons to show our support for the victims,
families, and friends of yesterday's outrages. While this is a wonderful
idea, (and his/her identity is on my home computer, sorry) I would like to
suggest that there is more we can do in our own little way that is more than
symbolic. Having moved from the Baltimore/D.C. area a year and a half ago I
will be surprised if I don't know someone among either the dead or injured
at the Pentagon or on board the plane from Dulles. The only question is, how
close a friend will it be. I greet each notice of new email with the hope of
finding out that another friend is still alive. And mine is only the
smallest of stories. Millions of people are waiting to hear whether loved
ones are alive or dead and much of that information will be gleaned from the
web through email and web sites. We have already seen that some of the net
has been slowed down and some web sites brought to a halt.

I would like to suggest that we curtail museum-l discussion as much as
possible for the next couple of days to save bandwidth and save email
inboxes from clutter.

Just a thought.


--
Matthew White
Director of Museums
Mount Washington Observatory
www.mountwashington.org

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