[1005] in peace2
Fwd: Not in Our Son's Name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix F AuYeung)
Thu Sep 20 00:12:10 2001
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Cc: slyster8@hotmail.com, ngrove@muhlenberg.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:12:12 -0400
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From: Felix F AuYeung <felixauyeung@juno.com>
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From: "John Kelly" <jkelly@hungercenter.org>
To: "Felix AuYeung" <AuYeung@alum.MIT.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:30:28 -0400
>> >
Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez's son Greg is one of the Trade Center
victims.
Copy of letter sent to NY Times:
Not in Our Son's Name
Our son Greg is among the many missing from the World Trade Center
attack. Since we first heard the news, we have shared moments of grief,
comfort, hope, despair, fond memories with his wife, the two families,
our friends and neighbors, his loving colleagues at Cantor Fitzgerald /
Espeed, and all the grieving families that daily meet at the Pierre
Hotel.
We see our hurt and anger reflected among everybody we meet. We cannot
pay attention to the daily flow of news about this disaster. But we read
enough of the news to sense that our government is heading in the
direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters,
parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further
grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our
son's death. Not in our son's name.
Our son died a victim of an inhuman ideology. Our actions should not
serve the same purpose. Let us grieve. Let us reflect and pray. Let us
think about a rational response that brings real peace and justice to our
world. But let us not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times.
Copy of letter to White House:
Dear President Bush:
Our son is one of the victims of Tuesday's attack on the World Trade
Center. We read about your response in the last few days and about the
resolutions from both Houses, giving you undefined power to respond to
the terror attacks.
Your response to this attach does not make us feel better about our son's
death. It makes us feel worse. It makes us feel that our government is
using our son's memory as a justification to cause suffering for other
sons and parents in other lands.
It is not the first time that a person in your position has been given
unlimited power and came to regret it. This is not the time for empty
gestures to make us feel better. It is not the time to act like bullies.
We urge you to think about how our governement can develop peaceful,
rational solutions to terrorism, solutions that do not sink us to
the inhuman level of terrorists.
Sincerely,
Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez
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