[Travis McGee]

If you live in Washington, New York, Seattle or San Francisco, it might be nice to bring some flowers to their consulates to express sympathy for their national pain today.

[Velveeta]

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[A Navy Vet]

Go Here to donate to tax-deductable charity for Beslan victims.

[Guillermo]

If they could read English, I'd encourage them to destroy the source from which Islam emanates...Mecca.

[Matthew James]

Excellent idea!

[ellery]

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[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Travis. There, but for the grace of God, goes us.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the family and friends of these victims, and the officals are going to get skewered for doing what they had to do.

[MarMema]

Thanks for the great idea, Travis. I will take icons with flowers.

[LTCJ]

Thank you, Travis.

This hits my family really hard. My niece started school this year. She was born six years ago, 200 miles from where this happened. My wife made two trips to this region with her sister in 2000 and brought back many good memories and pictures of these kind people. Each picture of this horror seems a twisted warping of those photos.

My SIL is having to guard to TV closely - my neice knows she's from Russia. I dread the day when she learns of this and is old enough to put the pieces together with the other facts that will rob her of her childhood - she was born on 11 September ...

May God bring comfort to these Russian families. Our prayers are with them.

[valleygal]

Thanks for the info. I was just telling my family I would like to get in touch with the consulate and then found your thread.

[ZULU]

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[MadelineZapeezda]

O Lord who watches over children in the present life and in the world to come because of their simplicity and innocence of mind, abundantly satisfying them with a place in Abraham's bosom, bringing them to live in radiantly shining places where the spirits of the righteous dwell: receive in peace the soul of Your little servants , for You Yourself have said, "Let the little children come to Me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Amen.

An Orthodox prayer

[MadelineZapeezda]

O Lord who watches over children in the present life and in the world to come because of their simplicity and innocence of mind, abundantly satisfying them with a place in Abraham's bosom, bringing them to live in radiantly shining places where the spirits of the righteous dwell: receive in peace the soul of Your little servants , for You Yourself have said, "Let the little children come to Me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Amen.

An Orthodox prayer

[Question_Assumptions]

Bump.

[primeval patriot]

There's a new consulate in Houston Texas.

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THE CONSULATE GENERAL  OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN HOUSTON

Address: 1333 West Loop South, Ste.1300,
                 Houston, TX 77027.

Consul General:  Nikolay V. Sofinskiy
 

___________________________

I can only offer a virtual bluebonnet.

[MarMema]

My husband and I will take an icon and flowers tomorrow to the Seattle consulate. We're taking Andrei Rublev's Trinity, primarily because it is a new one we have in our home set aside already.