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Location: Cicero, NY | Glad your daughter is ok, Mark. Our thoughts go out to the others, including her friends, that may not have been so lucky. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Glad your daughter is ok, Mark. Our thoughts go out to the others, including her friends, that may not have been so lucky. All I can say is "Ditto!" They're all in my prayers. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark,
For once, I don't know what to say that hasn't already been posted both in concern, prayers, and happiness that she has been hurt but will be ok.
I hope that her friends will be found and be okay.
Hopefully, this country will do more than send an assessment team immediately. I know the 'community' of the US will assist in fundraising. My praise to Canada who has already pledged $5 million whereas the European Commission, in its entirety, has only pledged $4.3 million. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Mark, let me add another voice saying I'm glad she made it out of there with relatively "mild" injuries only. And of course I'll be praying for her friends and everyone else. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Long night, but at least we got to talk to her a couple times. I wasn't coherent enough at 4 this morning to ask basic questions. We heard several hours ago that people had talked to one of the 4 kids she was working with, who was still trapped, but the other 2, including her good friend, hadn't been heard from. As Schroeder said, their parents must be going through hell.
They will be trying to locate American survivors that she was working with and will medivac them out, but no estimate of when. Meanwhile, she waits at the embassy.
I don't want to turn this into a Haiti news site, so, I'll just sign off and maybe do a final when she gets back. Thanks for all the hopes and prayers. |
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| Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Mark,
For once, I don't know what to say that hasn't already been posted both in concern, prayers, and happiness that she has been hurt but will be ok.
I hope that her friends will be found and be okay.
Hopefully, this country will do more than send an assessment team immediately. I know the 'community' of the US will assist in fundraising. My praise to Canada who has already pledged $5 million whereas the European Commission, in its entirety, has only pledged $4.3 million. A posting born of ignorance and at the wrong time in the wrong place.
The European Commission is the administrative arm of The European Parliament. Whatever it does out of its budget has to be justified to member states. It cannot spend money voted to anti-terrorist programmes or agriculture or whatever to anything else. The vast majority of help will be given by individual countries not by a central administration.
And given they they had pledged $4.3million from their emergency fund it would seem to my mathematically challenged mind to be more than nothing.
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| Hate to act like a Doctor here , Hell I don't know shit about medicine but you never told us why you fell in the kitchen. ?? If it was not a poltergist and there is no voodoo dolls, then you might have a problem in the old brain box from all the head bangs you have just had. Hopefully without sounding all dramatic...that trouble can kill you and its hard to diagnose.
Did you just black out.?? Again..... don't listen to me but if you have no idea why you collapsed this cold be serious.
Other than that I'll do what everyone else does to threads that are not on track.
"and I'm hovering like a fly......waiting for the windshield on the freeway" |
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Location: Right now? | Northcountry,
Thank you for your concern ... seriously! All kidding aside, I agree, and when I fell in the basement, I really, really did take a hard blow. I didn't want anyone fainting, that is why I didn't post photos from the first day. I was unrecognizable. My face is still swollen and my eye hurts. I did go to the doctor who said I had a mild concussion. That was before Christmas, and I'm scheduled for a recheck next week. I'm getting cabin fever on top of everything else.
All my very best hopes and wishes right now are for Mark's daughter, her friends and the other unfortunates involved in that horrible earthquake.
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Location: SoCal | "A posting born of ignorance and at the wrong time in the wrong place."
not worth a response, time will tell...CLICK |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Boys, cool it. Does it matter who gives the most money? SWMBO will be flying to Miami tomorrow to pick her up. If G8r Bowl was closer to Miami, I'd fly down and spend the weekend with you guys.
Someone at Gtmo bought Rachel some underwear and a sweatsuit and Blue Cross will fly her to a hospital in Miami. Sounds like she'll spend another night in a hospital.
CNN somehow found me and I talked to Wolf on the air and that led to calls from the local media. I hope some good comes out of this. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just suddenly lost my faith in the powers that be. She's safe at Gtmo, but nobody can figure out how to get her out. Can't fly military and it isn't medically necessary to evacuate her, so she sits. |
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Location: Tennessee | I'll bet the powers that be have a lot on their plate. Red Cross is probably throwing everything they have in the area at the disaster areas. Being at Gitmo isn't the worst thing for her, she's in a safe place, it's a pretty big operation, with medical personnel, but they need to get the logistics caught up to the situation. Having the media aware of your situation is also a very good thing. She'll be stateside soon. And if it was my daughter, I'd want her back right now.
Did the Wolf crew make you put on makeup? I would have liked to have seen the segment.
Continued good thoughts. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark, Rachel is now safe and out of harm's way. She is being taken care of at an established facility and has access to the best medical care currently in that region.
Please keep your faith in those powers that be. They were with her, keeping her safe seven stories up as that building collapsed into a pile of rubble under and around her. They stayed with her, got her out of the rubble, got her to the safety of the embassy, and got her off the island. Once her safety was assured, her guardian angel went back to help others. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Mark,
As you say, "She's safe at Gtmo." I'm sure she will be back with you soon. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Mark,
Other than your in hands, she is in the best hands that our resources can provide at this time. The military at Gitmo will provide her the best medical care, food and lodgings outside of your arms.
Just keep in mind that you know where she is: she's alive, safe and in goods hands. May you and yours find comfort in that!
PLEASE, keep us updated!!!
Prayerfully,
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Location: Upper Left USA | What started as an off topic post has taken more than the normal turns and twists and I think its time to stop the discussion here and take it up in other venues.
My heart goes out to Mark and his family as they go through a very difficult trial, one I would never want to endure.
I think it's time to move away from this thread.
This area had significant problems and now has been turned upside down and shaken. Each of us should continue to pray and help out as we see fit and you won't have to look far to find a way.
Mark emailed me and I see that one of Rachel's coworkers in the building is a local girl (I probably knew her in Youth Group with my daughter) and she is still missing.
Apparently Haiti is not a million miles away as it touches us and we realize how connected and fragile we are.
Words are not sufficient my Brother. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | +1 to Mwoody
Mark, if you would like, please keep me in the loop via eMail and I would be happy to update an informational post that would be locked from response.
We are all concerned and worried, and although this started slightly "off-topic" it can certainly be argued that such a major event affects all of us as members of the group.
As MWoody so clearly states, our concerns have been voiced, but I have no confidence that this thread will remain focused (non ever do) and it will just serve to be thrown in Al's and My face at some future date with a "well you let them talk about that" unfairness accusation.
So please keep us informed, and if you'd like me to make any announcements of information or updates you receive, I would be more than happy to. |
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