7 years ago today
Janet Baraclough wrote:
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> from Janet Wilder > contains these words:
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>> Janet Baraclough wrote:
>>> The message >
>>> from Janet Wilder > contains these words:
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>>>> My mother lived in Paterson, NJ and she told me that the Arab community
>>>> was celebrating by dancing in the streets. To this day, I cannot imagine
>>>> anyone living in this country rejoicing at such death and destruction.
>>> How did your mother know what it was she saw them celebrating? How
>>> could she tell it was not a wedding, or birth, or religious festival?
>>>
>>> Janet in Scotland.
>
>> My mother, who, BTW passed away in 2003, was with a group of friends who
>> had gone to an Arab neighborhood in Paterson to get something in a
>> particular shop, IIRC, said that they heard many references to the WTC
>> being shouted in the streets.
>
> Hardly surprising at the time!! In other cultures (like the UK)
> it's the custom for newsvendors to shout the latest news on the street
> .
>
>> I don't think it was a wedding. No one saw a bride and groom or anything
>> like that.
>
> But you don't know, unless they asked or were told.. It could have
> been any kind of a harmless celebration such as a special birthday or
> baby born.
>
> Janet
Sorry if I offended you, but the truth is the truth to me and I really
don't care how you want to warp it. Those people were shouting and
cheering the destruction of American lives and an attack on American
soil. I know it to be a fact and I don't really care what little dances
you want to do to get around it.
Bye.
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Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life
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