Plucked to Safety From Lebanon, American Evacuees Return, Lament the Dead

[Rose Siding]

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Haggard and wearing clothes they had slept in, but otherwise healthy and in good spirits, many of the roughly 150 evacuees exulted and applauded when the government-chartered DC-10 touched down at Baltimore/Washington International Airport.

Some wept tears of joy; others, tears of sadness. Some had worried that they and their loved ones would never make it out of Lebanon alive, while others feared for the safety of kin and friends left behind.

“We lived through horror; I’ve seen little kids burned alive,” said Tom Charara, 50, an aerospace engineer from Long Beach, Calif., who with his wife, Rola, and two young children went to visit ailing relatives in Beirut. “A country is being destroyed, people are being killed, and the whole world is watching.”
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The Lebanese people, Ms. Brannon said, want America’s help in ending the violence.

“When they hit a target,” she said, “one woman came to me and said: ‘Please call America. Please call America for us.’ So they do view you as a nation that stands with them.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/world/middleeast/21evacuees.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[uppityperson]

1. Good to have these people back, hopefully talking about what they saw

what they experienced. Talk to everyone please evacuees. Lots and lots of interviews and pictures and all that media publicity. Tell it like it is.

[Laughing Mirror]

2. "Please call America?"

The woman must mean South America or Latin America. Certainly she cannot believe George Bush's America stands with her.