Hey,
Just to let you know, the Lambchop Fan Page was recently updated with info
on recent releases and upcoming tour dates. Expect more to come soon!

I also read some discussion about what happened last week on this list and
thought I'd share what one of my classmates experienced. He's an Emory
University School of Medicine student who was visiting NYU when the WTC
was attacked. Prior to reading his account, this whole thing just seemed
like a movie.

Read on,
Jamie
The Lambchop Fan Page
http://listen.to/lambchop
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I have been in NYC since mid-August (on an endocrinology rotation), and
saw the burning towers from where I was working at Bellevue hospital (part
of NYU downtown). We were shocked and horrified as the towers crumbled
before our eyes. Since Bellevue didn't see many of the victims, I decided
to go further downtown to see if my help was needed.

Upon arriving at "ground zero", where the WTC once stood, I finally saw
what war really was. I was numbed as I passed through once familiar
territory: shops I had purchased things in now destroyed, ice cream shops
I had gone to, architecture I had admired now in ruins. I thought of the
attendants who had helped me, wondering if they had been working that day.
Through the acrid air filled with the smoke of adjacent fires you could
see the twisted steel remains of the towers. Sirens and shouts filled the
air, and everywhere people were walking around dazed or crying. I was
asked to assist in the Liberty Tower morgue, helping to ID bodies of
victims. We worked out of a destroyed Brookes Brother's store on the
ground floor of this 53 story building. I felt like I was in a dream as we
did our gruesome task next to shelves filled with dust-laden expensive
shirts, pants, scarves... Out of respect to the victims I won't describe
what I saw, but I will say that it has forever changed me. I have never
seen anything li
ke it, and I pray that neither I nor you will ever have to again. We were
evacuated sometime later when the building began to shift. All I remember
from this is somehow running out of a broken doorway onto the street and
joining the herd of frantic evacuees. The tower is still standing and has
been deemed "sound", but when I returned the next day to work at a triage
location I could barely look at it. So, like I said, the next day I worked
at "ground-zero" triage, located in the former "financial plaza". We
helped by performing eye washes and giving O2 to rescue workers, but
unfortunately saw no survivors.

Last night I went to Union Square, a park located on 14th street (the
furthest downtown location that civilians are allowed to freely pass
through now). Here I saw a make-shift monument to the victims, surrounded
by flowers, candles, singing people. Others argued in the background about
how "we must get even" or "america deserved this"...it was very charged
and at times almost came to blows. It was a place for New Yorkers and
others to heal and to vent. It was a good place to go...

I planned to fly out of La Guardia on Monday sep 17th, but changed my
flight to Sunday from a smaller NY state airport. I'm actually loathe to
leave because the battle is not done here. I'll be glad, though, to get
back to familiar and safe Atlanta surroundings.