Posted on 06/14/2003 11:45:18 AM PDT by OriginalV
Now, she is being held up as a martyr for Middle East injustices, a hero in Arab countries, a poster child for peace. Hers is perhaps the first mock casket ever carried in Gaza City with an American flag covering it. Photos of her have been made into banners and are unfurled at rallies from New York to Tel Aviv.
Evergreen professor Simona Sharoni named her daughter after Rachel Corrie. Beirut did the same with a street there.
In Rafah, a preschool, a youth center and a woman's empowerment center now bear the name of Rachel Aliene Corrie.
"Rachel has become larger than life," said Phan Nguyen, a friend from the International Solidarity Movement. "She wouldn't have wanted to become like that. ... She would've been like, 'Why am I getting all of this attention and the Palestinians don't?' "
Craig and Cindy Corrie said that before their daughter immersed herself in the politics of the Middle East, they viewed the conflict as much of the rest of the world does: white noise of the subconscious.
"That issue has been out there all of our lives," said Cindy Corrie, 55, who grew up on a farm in Denison, Iowa. "But once Rachel told us she was going there, that changed everything. We had a personal connection to it."
Craig Corrie had been a reluctant Vietnam War hero. His many medals, including a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, were long ago hidden in a plastic grocery bag in his mother's basement in Des Moines, Iowa. When he returned from war to Des Moines in 1971, he told the Army not to notify the local news media about his medals.
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Game over
If Rachel was alive to see that, she'd turn in her grave.
There is a distinct possibility that Rachel was murdered by the Palistinian medical personel that attended her. She would be worth far more in propaganda value dead than injured.
Ironic.
Could be German as well.
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