We have followed with much interest and
appreciation the development of the Rotaryclubhistory site and congratulate
you on its all embracing nature, especially your efforts to provide such
comprehensive and sensitive coverage of the tragedy of 11 September.
My Club has endeavoured to encourage
Rotarians throughout District 9640 to visit your site at regular
intervals and in this regard I have add the following page to the
Parkwood Rotary Club site:
We will always remember those events in
New York and Washington and the outpouring of worldwide sympathy to the
families of the victims which was so ably reported to us by you. At the
same time you have done a marvellous job for Rotary by bringing our
history to us in pictures and commentary. Altogether you have created a
site of which all Rotarians can feel extremely proud.
Internet Communications Officer
Dear President Helen
Reisler,
In your hours of sorrow,
President Fraser McNaught, the Board & Members of the RC of Bright
District 9790 Australia, wish to express our deepest condolences to you,
your members and the people of New York. Bright has a membership of 36 and
all our hearts go our to you. Our International Toast tonight Thursday
13/09 will be to your Club & Members.
This email
comes to you from the Rotary Club of Leeming in Western Australia.
We are a relatively young club, chartered some 7 years ago in the South
Metro suburb of Perth. We have just 25 members. We live in a quiet
backwater of the world down under.
We are a
mixed gender breakfast club and we meet at our local Golf Club. We
are greeted by kangaroos as we go to our club each Wednesday morning.
Last
Wednesday, the 12th of September we met as usual.
There was
an air of shock and horror as each member came through door.
Many
members had been up all night watching CNN News.
The world
had gone mad, we saw picture after picture of scenes that were surely out
of Acropolis Now. or , irony of ironies, from the film shown 2 nights
previously on local TV, Clear and Present danger by Tom Clancy. This
couldn't really be happening.
Dear
Friends, we feel for you, we weep for you.
Over the
last two days there have been many outpourings of grief for the US, prayer
meetings, simple neighbourhood gatherings where ordinary folk have
expressed their horror, everyone is talking about this, everyone is
horrified, you are not alone.
Today our
Firemen met en masse in Perth for a candlelight vigil in memory of the
brave men and women who lost their lives in the service of others.
On
Wednesday morning , our time, which was still Tuesday night your time ( we
are 12 hours ahead you) we met as usual at 7am. Our sergeant,
Michael Cockram joined me prior to the meeting and said that he felt we
shouldn't have the traditional fines session and heads and tails, my reply
to him was that we would not let any Hijackers interfere with our Rotary
Club meeting, I hope you will understand.
Following
Grace I invited Michael to say a few words about the US tragedy,
Our Grace
talks about every race and creed, our close of meeting statement
talks about freedom and security, on Tuesday 11th September 2001 this was
violated, ladies and gentlemen, join me in a moment of silence for our
American cousins.
President, Rotary Club of
Leeming, Western Australia
