Received: from mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net (mailhost1-chcgil.chcgil.ameritech.net [206.141.192.67]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1ONmYP02038 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:48:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from LabK ([67.38.127.158]) by mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20030224234835.UJPN9465.mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net@LabK> for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:48:35 -0600 From: "John Kamplain" <john_kamplain@albanyparkcommunitycenter.org> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8595] RE: RE: War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:50:49 -0600 Message-ID: <FLEIJPFJGNEBFCGDMABPMEDDCEAA.john_kamplain@albanyparkcommunitycenter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000001c2dc17$546ec7e0$6501a8c0@Default> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O Content-Length: 2611 Lines: 77 Right on, Cindi!!! > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Cindi > Riley > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:17 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8585] RE: War as a cross-cultural issue > > > Your students want to know why the U.S. goes around attacking > people all the > time? Do they study the history of Japan during the 20th century? I have > great reservations re: the present action being contemplated, but > I do know > if we really wanted the oil in Iraq we could have had it long > ago. Yes, the > U.S. makes many mistakes, but we don't go around attacking people all the > time. > > ******************** > Cindi Riley > Assistant Director > Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry > 1403 Prince St. > Beaufort, SC 29902 > phone 843-525-6658 > fax 843-521-1945 > criley@lowcountryliteracy.org > www.lowcountryliteracy.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Charles > Jannuzi > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:15 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8579] War as a cross-cultural issue > > Well here I am, an American in Fukui, Japan, and I have EFL > students asking > me, Why does the US attack everyone all the time? Why has war > become almost > an annual event? > > What do I say? My country right or wrong? That American's > unsurpassed power > somehow gives it the moral right to decide who lives and who dies? > > Do I get indignant and tell my students they are talking 'crap'? > My students > right here in Fukui City can go ask their grandparents if they > want to hear > real memories of what war actually means. The entire city was incinerated, > and the forested hill in the center became one giant charnel. > > I walk there every week among the trees and look at the thousands upon > thousands of gravestones that show life after life barely lived and then > snuffed out. > > Indignation is cheap. I don't think of their questions as attacks. I tell > them what my views are, and they actually appear thankful that not all > Americans think like the current administration does. > > I suggest some Americans I know review what freedom of speech means. They > might start with the recent articles of John Pilger, an > Australian. Written > in a plain English that most federal emergency management > bureaucrats can't > touch. You might also ask why is it that such blunt journalism > makes up less > than 1% of what is published and almost none of it in the mainstream press > in the US. > > Charles Jannuzi > Fukui, Japan >
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