----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: RE: Wiesenthal Ctr Report
> At 11:07 11-4-02 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > >>Last I heard, there were several hundred people in there of other > >>nationalities. Were they all given US citizenship per September 10th after > >>the attack? I always hear about "3,000 Americans were killed" but nothing > >>about the non-US citizens who died. > > > >Your sarcasm is not appreciated, and I suspect it is an attempt to > >trivialize the point I am making. > > I am not being sarcastic, and I am not attempting to trivialise a point. I > was asking a simple question about why people say "3,000 American citizens > were killed" when in fact several (hundreds?) of the victims were of other > nationalities. Such a message suggests that the loss of American lives was > horrible, but the loss of non-American lives was not important. > Yes, you are very correct, there were several hundred furriners at the WTC that day and a couple hundred of them died. But for the purpose of argument, we were responsible in some small way for their safety, and we will claim them statisticly as Americans when speaking in the broadest terms. We dont tend to exclude furriners just because of an accident of birth. <G> xponent Inclusive In Our Protection Maru rob
