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SOMETHING I HOPE TRUMP HEARS AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION
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“Let the door hit ya
“Where the Dem voters bit ya
“As we say, ‘Bye, ya’”
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BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Song: “Gernika”
Artist: Dave “Hedgehog” Mason
Artist Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Info: “I am a British-born, South African-raised singer/songwriter and bagpiper/composer currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently playing farmers markets, coffee houses, open mics in and around the tri-state.”
“On April 26, 1937 mankind carried out its first-ever aerial attack on civilians by the military as part of Franco’s Civil War. The bombings were carried out by Hitler’s Luftwaffe ‘Condor Legion’ and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria. Pablo Picasso painted his well-known, often-criticized painting based on the attack by the Spanish government. I wondered what a survivor of this atrocity might make of our continued bombardments against civilians, especially in war-torn Syria.”
Price: $1 for song; this song is a single.
Genre: Folk, Protest
Links:
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Heroes
• One of the heroes of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting was Waleed Shaalan, a 32-year-old engineering graduate student and Muslim who came to the United States from northern Egypt. Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, said that an email from a student who wished to be anonymous, but who was in the same room with Mr. Shaalan when the gunman attacked, told the story of Mr. Shaalan’s heroism. Mr. Shaalan was badly wounded, but the student who later emailed Mr. Dymond was unharmed and played dead as he lay by Mr. Shaalan. The gunman left the room but later returned and looked around. Just as the gunman was about to discover the unharmed student, Mr. Shaalan deliberately attracted the gunman’s attention. The gunman shot and murdered Mr. Shaalan, and he left the room, leaving the unharmed student alone. Mr. Dymond says that the anonymous student wanted the story to be known “so that the family of Waleed understands the sacrifice.” Hearing Mr. Dymond’s account of Mr. Shaalan’s last moments of life, Mr. Shaalan’s mother said, “He was trying to save someone else.”At Virginia Tech, Mr. Shaalan was active in the Muslim Student Association.
• In 1986, the Crites family took off in a Cessna 172 airplane from Banff National Park in Canada. However, the winds were high and the airplane crashed in a stream soon after takeoff. Dr. Darrell Crites, who was piloting, and his wife, Gloria, were killed instantly. Their two daughters, six-year-old Tammy and 11-year-old Korrina, were still alive. Korrina was badly injured with a broken jawbone, wrist, and cheekbone and fractured skull; Tammy had a broken collarbone. Korrina could barely move, so Tammy used luggage to float Korrina to shore. Korrina could not move any further, so Tammy set out to find help. She walked through the woods, shouting for help. Three women hikers heard her, but they couldn’t find her, so they telephoned Scott Ward, the park warden, who used a helicopter to find Tammy, who then led him to Korrina. Mr. Ward said later, “When the plane crashed, her father’s body was lying on top of Korrina. Apparently, Tammy pulled her sister out from under her father, got her up onto the creek bank and then headed off for help. Isn’t that something for a 6 1/2-year-old girl?”
• On Friday, 4 February 2011, a mentally ill Hispanic man started stalking Sabrina Scott, an African-American single mother in a New York subway. Ms. Scott said, “I tried to get away, and he started chasing me. I panicked.” As he chased her, the mentally ill man hissed, “Are you scared of me?” Ms. Scott cried out for help, which arrived in the form of a tall African-American man wearing a baseball cap and headphones. As the two men fought, Ms. Scott fell onto the subway tracks. When she regained consciousness, paramedics were taking care of her. The Good Samaritan who had come to her aid had chased off the mentally ill man and then had gotten Ms. Scott off the subway tracks before he himself left.While recovering in the Bellevue Hospital Intensive Care Ward with a concussion and a dislocated thumb, Ms. Scott said, “I want to say thank you to whoever it was. I have a son that I need to be here for, so thank God I’m still alive. Thank God.” Ms. Scott’s father, Ben, said about the Good Samaritan, “He really saved my daughter. We’re all so glad that no train was coming. That would have been devastating.” Constance Zuniga, Ms. Scott’s sister, added, “We’d like to thank him personally and take him out to dinner.”
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