[Steppes] Society friends and colleagues, please read.

[Richard Flickinger]

Thank you Gabrielle for your report.  In this most trying of times it is
very important that each of us search our hearts and remember that all of us
who love peace and freedom, are of one mind in our stand against the
mourning of the losses that humanity suffered, not just on 11 September but
on each occasion that ignorance and fear dictated cowardly acts of violence.
  May the comfort of the One that each of you Honor be with you.

Brother Kris


>From: "Jann Mays" <hlgabrielle at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: steppes at ansteorra.org
>To: steppes at ansteorra.org, glaslyn at ansteorra.org, lindenwood at ansteorra.org
>CC: blankengoalie at juno.com, bkloff32 at hotmail.com,
>bleavitt at metroplex-control.com, damienharrelson at hotmail.com,
>davidappleton at compuserve.com, only1 at hex.net
>Subject: [Steppes] Society friends and colleagues, please read.
>Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:07:42 -0500
>
>Greetings unto my friends and colleagues in the Society from Gabrielle
>Honorée de Saint Pierre.
>
>This is an excerpt from the editorial that appeared in the National French
>newspaper, Le Monde, two days after the WTC tragedy in New York.  I have
>taken the liberty to translate the editor’s opening paragraph of his
>September 13th editorial in order to share the thoughts and the sympathies
>that the French feel for America in light of this tragedy.   My hope is to
>break down misplaced hatreds and prejudices, aimed at the French, which I
>have noticed among some of my friends and colleagues in the Society.
>
>“In this moment of tragedy when words cannot truly express the shock that
>we
>feel, the first thought that came to mind is this one: we are all Americans
>and we are all New Yorkers, just as surely as John F. Kennedy declared
>himself a Berliner in 1963!  Therefore, how can we not feel the profound
>bond with these people and with this country, the United States, to whom we
>are so closely allied and to whom we owe our liberty, and, thus, our
>solidarity?”
>
>Jean-Marie Colombani
>Editor in chief of Le Monde
>Editorial, 9/13/01
>
>(Translation by Jann Mays, 10/10/01)
>Excerpt taken from the “Alliance Française de Dallas” October, 2001,
>newsletter.
>
>Thank you for taking the time to read this in order to further this great
>desire of mine to better the world through cultural understanding.
>
>Sincerely,
>Gabrielle
>(mka Jann Mays)
>
>
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