Posted on 06/13/2016 1:59:21 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Brussels attacks: These are the incredible survivors' stories
Andrew Marszal, Mumbai David Chazan, Brussels
23 March 2016 • 9:00pm
Hundreds were caught up in the Brussels attacks on an airport and a train on Tuesday which left 31 dead and 270 wounded. These are some of the stories of the survivors. The survivor from the iconic image
Late on Monday, Nidhi Chapekar put her two young children to bed, said goodbye to her husband Rupesh in the crowded Mumbai flat they share with five other relatives, and flew to Brussels for the last time.
As a chief air hostess on Jet Airways’ long-haul flights, Mrs Chapekar, 40, was in charge of one of the airline’s final red-eye flights to Brussels, just days before it closed its European hub in the Belgian capital.
She would then take an onward leg to Newark, and arrive back home in India in five days’ time.
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Instead just hours later a photograph of Mrs Chapekar covered in her own blood and bomb debris, staring blankly down the lens of a fellow passenger’s camera, would become the iconic image of Isil’s latest terror attack in Europe.
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I can recall maybe one story about one of the Boston Boming survivors, and maybe one of the soldiers that survived the Ft. Hood attack, but none other.
I believe that such news is suppressed by Obama's willing media, because it would remind all of us about those events and how survivors are never the same.
My heart goes out to the people who survived Brussels and Orlando, as well as the families of the dead. But stories about victims surviving and coping can’t be the only thing we read about. We are trapped in a culture that writes about the suffering and other troubles of the victims. We should sympathize with them — don’t get me wrong — but if that’s all we do, we are passive sheep. Another bomb goes off and we all have a good cry together. Or someone plays a song and we all get weepy and maudlin about it. Where are the stories about how we are finding and killing these monsters? Where are the stories where we unleash Hell on them? Where we capture and execute their leaders? That’s what I want to read about.
Ah, ‘we unleash holy hell on them’?? Those, of course, are forbidden by the Emperor and His Thugs. Not that the media would allow them to be published anyway, unless they were anti-conservative. You can bet plenty of folks are writing about that, speaking about that, and most certainly thinking about it. Let’s see the votes in November.
Three people who understand Islam. For the Lady from Mumbai and the young man from Utah, this was not their first close exposure.
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