Fw: sept 11

Peggy Holman peggy at opencirclecompany.com
Fri Sep 14 08:49:57 PDT 2001


Here is a message from an Irish woman the actions she and others took when
hearing of the disaster.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Margarita Synnott" <mfsynnott at oceanfree.net>
To: <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>
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
>
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