[MR] News from NY, forwarded from cooks list

[Nelson Beth]

From: "Ian Mitchell" <ostgardr at hotmail.com> 
Subject: [Sca-cooks] A Sad Day in Ostgardr    
 
A Sad Day in Ostgardr (Please forward to othe SCA
lists who might be
interested)

Greetings to all the friends of Ostgardr across the
Known World on the
morning after from Baron Ian of Clan Mitchell the
Viceroy of the Crown
Province of Ostgardr.(The Baron of New York)

First let me say that we think we have accounted for
all the members of 
the
SCA who worked in the World Trade Center. All
survived. Some of the 
stories
of escape are hair raising..

Thank you all for your concern.,

Even though the Scadian family seem to have all
escaped, none of us are
untouched. The  Deputy Chief who coordinated the
Police Department's 
United
Way Campaign for three years (That's what I do) is
listed among the 
dead. I
have not yet dealt with the loss of my friend.

My son, Mitch Jr. (Lord Michael MacIan), is a
paramedic. Please keep 
him in
your thoughts -- he works for a private ambulance
company that took 
heavy
casualties at the base of the WTC yesterday morning.
Thank GOD he 
wasn't
there when it collapsed, but was held at the mouth of
the Brooklyn 
Battery
Tunnel by dispatch. He was on the phone complaining
loudly to his 
mother
that he couldn't get in there to help..when the
buildings  collapsed. 
And he
fell silent as he stared at the cloud rising where the
buildings had 
been.
The picture that the networks  keep showing of
ambulances crushed and 
ash
covered is of the staging area for his company.  He
knows of one friend
killed, one in very critical condition, twenty injured
and a dozen 
among the
missing. He is scheduled to be there at 7AM today,
Wednesday.

People have asked , "What can we do?"
My response is pray and give blood and money to the
Red Cross.   New 
York
only had a two day supply before this happened. I
helped with crowd 
control
at one of the blood centers yesterday. People were
wonderful. The need 
was
so great that the motorcycle cops were making pickups
every half hour. 
This
blood need is not going away soon.

Please keep us all in your thoughts as we come to
grips with what has
happened to our City and our friends.

You can reach me at ianmitchell at yahoo.com


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