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Rachel Corrie stirs idealism, controversy. Still dead.
 Late Olympia peace activist still inspiring to some
...naive idiot to others.
Cindy Corrie never imagined losing one of her children, nor did she believe she would survive such a loss.
Then why'd they let her go to beautiful Gaza?
Then on March 16, 2003, the unthinkable happened. Her 23-year-old daughter, Rachel, was crushed beneath an Israeli bulldozer as she stood defending a Paleo weapons tunnel the home of two Palestinian families in Rafah, Gaza.
Naive, stupid foreigner is no way to be in Gaza. Ask BBC guy.
Cindy, 59, and her husband, Craig, lost made up their minds then to keep their daughters words few as they were and message idiotic as it was alive, despite their loss. In fact, within the hour, we did start making decisions, Cindy Corrie said, and one was because Rachels words (in diaries and e-mails) had had such an impact on us, that those words needed to be available to people. She had worked on that. That was something she wanted to see happen.
| Few things are sadder than parents trying to rationalize the senseless loss of a child. |
Rachel Corries voice can still be heard four years after her death, when the controversial play My Name is Rachel Corrie opens Thursday in Seattle.
Can we rename that "My Name was Rachel Corrie"?
| "Saint Pancake Flounders"? |
Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-16 |
