Where's that insider troll when you need it? Oh well, here goes...
How insensitive you all are! I knew Rachel Corrie and she was a wonderful, kind warm loving person.
She was a typical teenager, spending weekends at the mall, looking at cute boys, roller blading and playing with her beloved collie, Sparky (known as Yasser in later years).
Sometime in the second half of her sophomore year, she became seriously ill after eating some bad falafel. After a slow, rocky recovery in the hospital, some of us who were closer to her noticed a slight change in her behavior. She'd taken to wearing a muslim headscarf and was fond of yelling "THE AIR STINKS OF JEWS!" during periods between classes.
Then there was the labyrinth of tunnels she dug under the school to get her from one class to another and to her locker. Unusual indeed, but certainly not making her worthy of the ridicule she's received here.
By the time she was a senior, she was well known for lying down in the school driveway and blocking the paths of school busses on muslim holidays. In fact in our yearbook there's a full page spread of her hilarious antics during Ramadan and a truly memorable photo of her slicing her face open for Ashura.
To us, she seemed like a normal, well adjusted teenager, with parents who fully supported her self expression.
When I saw her flattened like a bag of pudding in the mud of Gaza, I was stunned. "Certainly this can't be the 'Rabid' Rachel Corrie I knew from highschool!" I yelled.
You should all be ashamed of the comments you've made surrounding the death of this promising individual.
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
You did a really, really great job on that one. LOL, thanks for the laugh. Wow, you have it down.