A Letter To A Friend
Dear Joe,
It's been a little more than five years since I last saw you. My how so much has changed.
Claudia and I moved out of White Plains about a year after we saw you. We moved out to Milford, CT. But a lot has changed at home, too.
Sports Page, where you held court, is now moved. It's in the "Old Mall" now, an attempt to capture some of the nightlife that has taken hold in central White Plains. The old building in south White Plains is currently vacant and waiting to either be torn down or replaced by a bank or something.
Our city itself is different. You'd hardly recognize it. Scyrscrapers tower over where Macy's used to be. Sears is now a Wall Mart -- could you believe there's a Wall Mart in White Plains? And all those dollar stores on Mamaroneck Avenue have been replaced by restaurants and bars. It is a completely different city from the one you knew.
Five years ago we lost you. I spent the first couple of years afterward in a kind of shock. Now, I've regained my consciousness and am more determined than ever to insure that you and those we lost with you will not be forgotten and, more importantly, that you will not continue to be used by our government as an excuse to take morally unjust actions.
None of us who knew you have forgotten you. And none of us ever will. It is long overdue for us who miss you to make sure those responsible are held to task. At the same time, we who remember must make sure that others don't die in your name fighting those who were not involved and are not threats to us.
This, Joe, is my promise to you.
Eric
It's been a little more than five years since I last saw you. My how so much has changed.
Claudia and I moved out of White Plains about a year after we saw you. We moved out to Milford, CT. But a lot has changed at home, too.
Sports Page, where you held court, is now moved. It's in the "Old Mall" now, an attempt to capture some of the nightlife that has taken hold in central White Plains. The old building in south White Plains is currently vacant and waiting to either be torn down or replaced by a bank or something.
Our city itself is different. You'd hardly recognize it. Scyrscrapers tower over where Macy's used to be. Sears is now a Wall Mart -- could you believe there's a Wall Mart in White Plains? And all those dollar stores on Mamaroneck Avenue have been replaced by restaurants and bars. It is a completely different city from the one you knew.
Five years ago we lost you. I spent the first couple of years afterward in a kind of shock. Now, I've regained my consciousness and am more determined than ever to insure that you and those we lost with you will not be forgotten and, more importantly, that you will not continue to be used by our government as an excuse to take morally unjust actions.
None of us who knew you have forgotten you. And none of us ever will. It is long overdue for us who miss you to make sure those responsible are held to task. At the same time, we who remember must make sure that others don't die in your name fighting those who were not involved and are not threats to us.
This, Joe, is my promise to you.
Eric
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