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Parents pick up banner of slain activist daughter
The Olympian ^ | June 14, 2003 | GREG BARRETT

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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To: Liberal Classic

41 posted on 06/14/2003 6:11:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: OriginalV
Bulldozer: 1
Idiot: 0

Game over

42 posted on 06/14/2003 6:11:52 PM PDT by Jarhead_22 (Peace can wait. I want payback.)
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To: Weaselle
Hers is perhaps the first mock casket ever carried in Gaza City with an American flag covering it

If Rachel was alive to see that, she'd turn in her grave.

43 posted on 06/14/2003 6:13:45 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("O tempora! O mores!")
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To: OriginalV
Is this the one? Run over by a bulldozer? Flattening a protester with a bulldozer somehow seems fitting.
44 posted on 06/14/2003 6:15:14 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: 2111USMC
This girl wasn't "slain". She committed suicide.

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.

45 posted on 06/14/2003 6:22:25 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: OriginalV
Craig Corrie, 56, was a cavalry sergeant responsible for clearing trees and bamboo for Army bases in Cambodia. His soldiers used military bulldozers similar to the U.S.-made Caterpillar involved in Rachel's death.

Ironic.

46 posted on 06/14/2003 6:32:03 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon
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To: Liberal Classic
Someone needs to be charged with the desecration of a US Flag.
47 posted on 06/14/2003 6:35:04 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon
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To: OriginalV
This may sound cruel, but I feel no pity for her.
Why do people like her not go to Israel and stand in front of a Palestinian suicide bomber?
48 posted on 06/14/2003 6:46:58 PM PDT by Justin714
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To: Liberal Classic
Wow. What a bunch of propaganda. Notice, they are taking "great care" of the American flag, a flag they usually are seen burning in the streets.
50 posted on 06/15/2003 2:05:03 AM PDT by yonif
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To: yonif; Jeff Gordon
I am thinking the same thing: Why is she being buried in the same flag she rejected?
51 posted on 06/15/2003 9:11:01 AM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: PoisedWoman
Come to think of it, isn't Starbuck's owned by a Jewish fellow? (Schultz? Schwartz?)

Could be German as well.

52 posted on 06/15/2003 9:14:13 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan (When someone tells me 'my way or the highway', I take the highway)
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