From the president's remarks (What? No duct tape and plastic sheeting?)

[kpete]

From the president's remarks:

We also know this -- the American people refuse to be terrorized. Because what the world saw yesterday in the aftermath of the explosions were stories of heroism and kindness, and generosity and love: Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood, and those who stayed to tend to the wounded, some tearing off their own clothes to make tourniquets. The first responders who ran into the chaos to save lives. The men and women who are still treating the wounded at some of the best hospitals in the world, and the medical students who hurried to help, saying “When we heard, we all came in.” The priests who opened their churches and ministered to the hurt and the fearful. And the good people of Boston who opened their homes to the victims of this attack and those shaken by it.

So if you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil -- that’s it. Selflessly. Compassionately. Unafraid.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/16/president-obama-american-people-refuse-be-terrorized
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/4/16/14341/2953

[tanyev]

1. I had a coworker back in 2001 who was ready to run out and get duct tape and plastic sheeting.

We had a regional FEMA center nearby and she was certain we were a top target. Sigh.

[uppityperson]

2. No cans of tuna and boxes of dried milk under your bed. Alas.