AFTER TRAGEDY'It was the most horrific, horrendous thing I've ever
seen in my life. We watched the cloud envelop Manhattan and the river.
I'll never forget it as long as I live.'
-- Lyle Davis, a Newport Beach resident, on seeing the World Trade
Center collapse from across the Hudson. Davis was in Newark on business
'You hear about New Yorkers being rude. But when we were out there,
people were walking up to us, shaking our hand. Some even told us they
know where Costa Mesa is and thanked us for our support.'
-- Jim Ellis, Costa Mesa fire chief, on spending a week in New York
earlier this month to deliver a check for $7,500 collected by Costa Mesa
city employees to benefit the families of firefighters who died in the
Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack. Ellis went to New York with his son,
Kevin.
'Americans come in all colors. You cannot take this out on people
because they are different than you.'
-- Dave Snowden, Costa Mesa police chief, cautioning people not to
point fingers at certain groups because of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
'I think we will all experience these events differently because of
this, in the same way we experience going to the grocery different than
we did two weeks ago.'
-- Sandy Robertson, associate director of the Philharmonic Society of
Orange County, on how the events of Sept. 11 will affect the Eclectic
Orange Festival. The six-week festival opened Friday.
'Cannot be a Muslim in the eyes of God if you are not acting like a
Muslim. Evildoers do not belong to any religion. Their ideology is pure
evil."
-- Sayed Moustafa Al-Qazwini, imam of the mosque at the Islamic
Educational Center, stressing that the destruction of life is in no way a
part of Islam. The Costa Mesa mosque held an open house Nov. 3.
'This event has been compared to Pearl Harbor. But when you take an
American jet plane full of passengers and turn it into a weapon and hit a
building with thousands of people in it with the intent of hurting them,
you wonder where the humanity has gone.'
-- Rabbi Marc Rubenstein of Temple Isaiah, reacting to the destruction
of the World Trade Center in New York City
'The last thing people should be doing is to panic and come running
into our emergency room.'
-- Steve Moreau, senior vice president at Hoag Hospital, on the
anthrax scare gripping the country
'I'd like to ask them how they rebound and regroup. It's OK to talk
about strategy and tactics, but how do you face the aftermath of
