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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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1 posted on 06/14/2003 11:45:18 AM PDT by OriginalV
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To: OriginalV
a hero in Arab countries, a poster child for peace.

It kind of fits --- with the way she went, they can use her literally to be the poster.

3 posted on 06/14/2003 11:49:51 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: OriginalV
They failed to mention miss Corrie's posthumous Darwin Award.
4 posted on 06/14/2003 11:50:01 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Weaselle
Puke!!
5 posted on 06/14/2003 11:50:08 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: OriginalV
I saw the graduation ceremony of Rachel's class at EverRed college on tv....grads wore those black-white checked Arab scarves over their caps and gowns, and Rachel's mother wore a black-white checked dress while giving some address at commencement. What's wrong with this picture? Where was the American flag?

Rachel was exposed as an all-out anarchist. Her parents, who look like average middle-class people, are now taking up her anarchist battle? Expect to see them on the streets of Seattle soon throwing bricks through Starbuck's windows for Peace. Come to think of it, isn't Starbuck's owned by a Jewish fellow? (Schultz? Schwartz?) Is that why the anarchists target them all the time?
6 posted on 06/14/2003 11:52:22 AM PDT by PoisedWoman (Fed up with the CORRUPT liberal media)
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To: PoisedWoman
Roll out the bulldozers!
7 posted on 06/14/2003 11:53:28 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: OriginalV
You don't have to excerpt articles from this source. Only LA Times/ Washington Post sources, a list of which can be found on the FR main page.

Articles from all other news sources should be posted in full.
8 posted on 06/14/2003 11:56:05 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: OriginalV
Funny how you don't hear much about human shields anymore. They were a great source of entertainment. Maybe we can find some protestors to drive Hamas leaders around.
9 posted on 06/14/2003 11:56:56 AM PDT by Normal4me
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To: OriginalV
Now, she is being held up as a martyr for Middle East injustices
B-A-R-F
10 posted on 06/14/2003 11:57:10 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: FITZ
with the way she went, they can use her literally to be the poster.

LMAO! A few coats of shellac and a handful of thumbtacks and voila! Liberal immortality.

11 posted on 06/14/2003 11:59:53 AM PDT by PoisedWoman (Fed up with the CORRUPT liberal media)
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To: OriginalV
I don't remotely mean to be unkind.

But if one of my three daughters deliberately decided to lie down in the path of a bulldozer, didn't move when it was obvious the bulldozer wasn't stopping, and got run over, I'd grieve like any parent.

And I would at least scratch my head and wonder where I had gone wrong in her education.
12 posted on 06/14/2003 12:00:50 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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EverRED State, as you so properly named it, had cop killer Mumia abu Jamal as commencement speaker in 2000. It doesn't require a high school diploma to attend and it is the most anti-American school in Washington with Western Washington University running a close second.

Rachel Corrie's parents should have been the ones used as bulldozer track lubricant for screwing her head up from birth.

I would also like to see our state either defund the school or better yet, when they have one of their famous anti-American rallys send over a single bomber from one of our Air Force or Navy bases with a MOAB and accidentally on purpose drop it on the school, oops!
13 posted on 06/14/2003 12:03:00 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: OriginalV
Rachel Corrie was an idiot. He rfriends lied about the circumstances of her death and her parents are idiots for falling into the same crowd.
14 posted on 06/14/2003 12:03:19 PM PDT by Bogey78O (check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
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To: Clara Lou
Now, she is being held up as a martyr for Middle East injustices

Just until the media hype dies down and they start replacing her named "monuments" with Muslim-martyrs. She is still an infidel.

15 posted on 06/14/2003 12:05:58 PM PDT by WellsFargo94
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To: OriginalV
So... the apple didn't fall too far from the tree. Notice the flattering picture of Rachel? Quite a contrast with the images of her face contorted with hatred when she was in Gaza.


16 posted on 06/14/2003 12:07:06 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (http://c-pol.com)
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To: OriginalV
The headline of this article ticks me off.

This girl wasn't "slain". She committed suicide.

17 posted on 06/14/2003 12:09:37 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: OriginalV
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.

This is what the 60's liberals have done to our Vietnam Vets, reduced many to feeling ashamed of serving their country when it called them to do so. Regardless of whether or not we should have been over there, to NOT support our troops is extremely demoralizing. God bless this man for serving his country.

What a shame for his children that he couldn't accept his well deserved medals and teach them the value and honor of serving our country, respecting our flag, and pride at pledging allegiance to our great nation.

He'd have a daughter today if he had.

18 posted on 06/14/2003 12:13:02 PM PDT by WellsFargo94
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To: OriginalV
Let's remember Rachel as she really was:


19 posted on 06/14/2003 12:13:55 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: OriginalV
She was supporting terrorists, hated America, hated Israel, did not listen to Israeli authorities and died because of her stupidity. If her parents want to take up the cause, they must remember that they are picking up the same cause terrorists are using and the cause which has been responsible for over a 1000 innocent Israelis. Furthermore, they talk about how there is mock American casket there. Don't they understand these people burn American flags on a daily basis? These terrorists are using her death for propaganda purposes.
20 posted on 06/14/2003 12:14:58 PM PDT by yonif
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