Reprocutions on FIRST teams from New York events

[Jessica Boucher]

Im sorry if this opinion is recoiled with great dissention, but I think Carolyn was literally misinterpreted, due to the great amount of snap judgements made concerning the disaster yesterday (which isn't wrong to have happened, it is a normal reaction to crisis situations).

Anger isn't going to help us right now, it makes us no better than them. What can be found out, is how the American people, in connection with supporting nations, can help repairing the damage done and making sure it won't happen again.

I think the question now is how we as a community, within FIRST and within the world, can help eachother begin the repair process. Personally, if I had started a thread like this, I would not want to start it off with "Ok, so who do you know was directly affected by this?"...we do not know everyone here on such a personal level. Sponsorship is something that everyone within FIRST can relate to, which I think is why it was chosen as a topic of discussion.

In any case, the question remains in my head: How can I help? How can we help?