Earlier, city saluted glass worker who helped.
Ginny DiMario said she lives near the site of last week's plane crash and felt compelled to take part in a candlelight vigil Thursday night near there.
"I was born and raised in Austin, and I have never seen anything like this happen before," DiMario said. She joined about 30 other people at sunset Thursday. They gathered across U.S. 183 from the Echelon I building because the frontage road in front of the building is still closed.
Austinite Andrew Joseph Stack III posted an anti-government manifesto online before piloting a single-engine plane into the Northwest Austin building, which housed some offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the apparent target. The crash killed Stack and 68-year-old Vernon Hunter, who worked for the IRS.
The vigil was promoted through Twitter, a social media Web site.
"We wanted to come out here and show our support for both families and everyone that was in the building," said Kim Hollenshead, who helped organize the vigil. "We just wanted to come together and let our neighbors know that we are still here for them."
Ricardo Guerrero said he lives in the same neighborhood as the Stack family. He said the crash and fire at the Stacks home have left a sense of powerlessness in the community, and he hoped that by being at the vigil, he was showing support for the Stack and Hunter families. >>>>>
Photo's of Plane crash vigil, 02.25.10
Danger Zone: Your Office
February 26, 2010
When a "disgruntled" man makes a suicide-by-airplane attack on a federal building you would think that Capitol Hill would explode with outrage.
You'd think!
You think?
But not so much.
A few top officials with the IRS and the Treasury Department expressed horror and regret over the attack. Especially to the wife of the 68-year old IRS worker who was killed.
But elsewhere, not so much.
Which has some IRS workers wondering if there is anybody out there, and does anybody care?
An IRS worker named Mike put it like this: >>>>>
Zealot who flew plane into IRS office is no hero
9-11 suicide pilots acted on grievances too; this is different?
Ken Hunter has a right to be upset. The man who killed his father by crashing a plane intentionally into a Texas IRS building is being portrayed as hero on Web sites and even has a fan page on Facebook.
Hunter's father, Vernon Hunter, was the IRS employee killed in the Austin building the plane hit. "How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane ... and flies it into a building to kill people?" Ken Hunter said. "My dad, Vernon, did tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad's a hero." >>>>>
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