<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Horace = wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    "<FONT face="Times = New Roman" size=3>1. Don't joke about it, even if you think it might help cheer someone<BR>up."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Absolutely, Horace. = Just remember that people, when under stress, often react in wholely = inappropriate ways. Some people respond by trying to laugh even a situation such as = this off. It's their only defense mechanism. If any of you encounters someone = reacting in this manner, it may not mean that they really are reflecting their true feelings, so don't be too hard on them. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    The events of this = morning are hard to comprehend, or grasp the enormity of the destruction. I would = guess a death count of tens of thousands. God be with us all in the days ahead.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    In regard to loss of = life and destruction of property, what happened today is much worse than what = happened at Pearl Harbor. Not strategically, unless our financial markets were the = real targets, which they probably were.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></FONT><= /DIV></BODY></HTML>