Here is a message from an Irish woman the actions she and others took when hearing of the disaster.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Margarita Synnott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:33 PM Subject: sept 11 > Dear Peggy > > I am an Irish friend of Brenda Peddigrew and she forwarded me your thoughts > on this awful time so I am writing to thank you for them. As I have told Brenda > we Irish have spent the last 800 years of our history learning that, ultimately, > we can only seek truth by peaceful means and by recognising the humanity of > the other. Tonight we are thinking of the people of North America and their > plight. One of the heartening things to come from the awful time is people's > responses and today I am proud to say Irish people descended on the main airport > to help those people stranded because of the cancellation of flights. People > were brought back to our homes for showers, food and family time, it just sort > of happened and once the word spread the airport was 'cleaned out' and when > my family went there to bring home "An American" there was none left! They'd > all been taken (don't worry in Ireland "an American" includes Canadians even > though I know Canadians are different!) > > With kind thoughts > Margarita Synnott > > *************************** ADVERTISEMENT ****************************** > > Birdseye Hot & Steamy, offers you the chance to win a Home Cinema System > worth £2500 - Check out http://www.birdseyehotandsteamy.ie/comp3.html > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
