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Halli’s Comments

Remembering 9/11 From Marcia Ross: “We realized that no one’s life
would ever be the same again. We thought not of ourselves
By Halli Moore but of our children and grandchildren and challenges they
would have to face.”
It never gets easier From Linda Kassner: “Fred Gabler 30, an equity trader
remembering that day when at Cantor Fitzgerald met Mindy when they were both 16.
an unimaginable horror They lived in Manhattan and were expecting their first
occurred. The two World child this month. At his memorial service his father, who
Trade Center buildings in escaped on Sept 11th from his own office in the World
New York were struck by Trade Center told the mourners that the only thing missing
two planes, which killed from his son’s life “was length.” The Fred Gabler Helping
thousands of people. As Hand Camp Fund was established in his memory.”
President Franklin Delano From Richard Winthrop: “My son, a New York
Roosevelt said, “Another Fireman, was working that day. The hardest part was
Day in Infamy.” in the World Trade Center in the belief that God will not being able to get in touch with New York for days
I was taking a water aerobics class when a woman reward them in paradise and quench their lust with wondering if he was safe. Thank God he made it OK, but
ran out to the pool to tell us that there was an accident; scores of nubile virgins demonstrates again the mind’s five of the brothers he was very close to, did not.”
a plane hit the World Trade Building. We all got out of infinite capacity for mythical thinking for regressing into From Halli Moore:
the pool to watch the television inside. But just as we nonrational modes of thought and behavior.” “Buildings crumble, bodies fall
entered another plane hit the second building. This was From Cecil and Herb Lovit: “Ron Rubin was among Into an abyss of nothingness.
no accident. I thought we were at war. the multitude who were lost that heinous day, Sept. 11. Families mourn, cry and wonder
In the next few paragraphs I will quote some of the He was our son’s best friend. Everyone loved loved Ron. While heroes try to put asunder
heartwarming messages of residents of Boca Pointe at He constructed toys for children like rocking horses, The agony of those still breathing.
that time. riding airplanes and played games with them. A home
From Dr. Marvin Perry who taught history at Baruch for humanity was built in his memory in Newark, N. J., It’s hard to imagine the giant World Trade Center
College CUNY and has written many books: Dr. Perry’s and a family now has a wonderful place to call home.” No longer exists,
article on 9/11 was wonderfully explicit about terrorism From Bernice Berg: “We can only hope the good But the hole in the skyline is a reminder of the tryst
and what led up to 9/11. I am only quoting from the people of this world together will excavate these With death and destruction.”
last paragraph. “Religious fanatics utterly committed to terrible thugs from their filthy ditches and caves, and
medieval Islamic views of life and death and employing wherever these cowards hide to cleanse the earth of their Halli Moore is a resident of The Palms. 
the instruments of modern technology, including lethal excrement.”
weapons, remain a frightening way of life in the twenty-
first century. Secondly, suicidal fanatics crashing planes
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September 2 September 17 April 2019 – April 2020 Officers/Executive Committee

Third Quarter First Quarter Chairman and President Barry J. Haberman District 5 Dan Gabrielle (La Corniche)
September 10 September 23 Vice Chair Steve Retzer Esplanada, Caravelle, Palomar, La Corniche,
Vice President Gail Ehrlich and El Dorado
2nd Vice President Jim Collins District 6 Marvin Lazarowitz (Villa Stel)
Secretary Steve King Villa Flora, Montego Bay, Villa Stel, and Palladium
Treasurer Harvey Kaplan District 7 Joyce Britt (Villa Sonrisa)
The Plum/Cortina, Villa Sonrisa and Pointe 100
District Directors District 8 Len Kagan (Costa del Sol)
District 1 Costa del Sol and Costa Brava
Encantada, Valencia and The Palms District 9 Robin Gliboff (Edgewater)
District 2 Steve King (Imperial Royale) Edgewater Pointe Estates and Stratford Court
Promenade, Imperial Royale, Imperial, Regency
and Panaché At Large Directors At Large Directors
District 3 Steve Retzer (La Mirada) Through 2020 Through 2021
La Mirada and Meridiana Carsten Bethge (Valencia) Howard Davis (La Corniche)
District 4 Bob Greenstein (La Paz) Jim Collins (Caravelle) Gail Ehrlich (Villa Flora)
El Viento, La Paz, and Southwinds Harvey Kaplan (Meridiana) Barry J. Haberman (Encantada)

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