Slaughter Of The Aussies
Bali's morgues and hospitals are overflowing and Australia weeps for it's dead. Hundreds have yet to be identified. Husbands and wives and parents, struck down with anguish are searching these grizzly places for the charred and broken remains of a wife or husband or child. Tourists stream out of the country. Grief stricken friends and relatives with photos stand in airport terminals hoping beyond hope that someone has seen their loved one in a hospital. To a country of only 18 million people, this a 9/11 equivalent. From Tim Blair's website:

FORBES IS a small town – pop. 8,500 – in central-west New South Wales. Three men from the town are missing following the bomb attacks in Bali. Everybody in Forbes knows them. Two are farmers. One is a council worker.

The mayor of Forbes, Alister Lockhart, gave this summary of the town's reaction: "In a much smaller way it means the same to the people of Forbes that it meant to the people of New York after September 11."

Does this remind you of anything you read after the WTC went down.