Querido y Estimado Efren, It's been many years since i briefly lived in Madrid across the street from Estacion Atocha, taking my chocolate con churros every morning at the station front. I want to send my love to you and all your countrymen, and also say how proud I was to see everyone take to the streets in support. The same day, by coincidence, I passed by NY Ground Zero, 2 years and 6 months since the WTC attack, and was amazed how sterile what is now a construction lot seems now, although many tourists were still looking for the twisted metal. That same night I attended a conference about Christians who saved Jews and others during WWII and the main thing we took away was that it was perfectly average, sometimes even otherwise criminal, people who would never think of themselves as heroic who risk their lives for others. I'm thinking of you in Barcelona, and any other Spaniards on the list, and sending love and solidarity- it is the common people- like us on the list- who do little deeds to make the world a little better every day. I am glad to be with everyone here. Love, Steve Koenig
Hi Steve and all, I really appreciate your kind words and all the other messages of support I've received, some of them off-list. Nobody seems to be safe now. Perhaps it is a good moment to revise our convictions and assumptions. Nobody deserves to die like this. There's no justification for someone to perpetrate such an indiscriminate massacre, but we're also wrong. For the moment, the Spanish people went out yesterday and voted massively against the criminal manipulators who led us to this meaningless war. In the middle of the confusion induced by the attack and our own government, people managed to see the light and think for themselves. I really hope to see the same reactions in other the countries where the authorities want their citizens to be blind and deaf. There are no military interventions or ethnic cleansings or collateral damages. There are invasions, genocides and dead civilians. We are not stupid and euphemisms are not enough to fool us... hopefully. I seize the opportunity to send my support to Eyal in Israel, where 10 people died. I hope messages like this become scarcer and scarcer. Thanks again. Best, Efrén del Valle --- Acousticlv@aol.com escribió: > Querido y Estimado Efren,
It's been many years since i briefly lived in Madrid across the street from Estacion Atocha, taking my chocolate con churros every morning at the station front. I want to send my love to you and all your countrymen, and also say how proud I was to see everyone take to the streets in support. The same day, by coincidence, I passed by NY Ground Zero, 2 years and 6 months since the WTC attack, and was amazed how sterile what is now a construction lot seems now, although many tourists were still looking for the twisted metal. That same night I attended a conference about Christians who saved Jews and others during WWII and the main thing we took away was that it was perfectly average, sometimes even otherwise criminal, people who would never think of themselves as heroic who risk their lives for others. I'm thinking of you in Barcelona, and any other Spaniards on the list, and sending love and solidarity- it is the common people- like us on the list- who do little deeds to make the world a little better every day. I am glad to be with everyone here. Love, Steve Koenig
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