8.05.2009

The Homecoming

If you get to watch any of the coverage of the return of the two journalists from North Korea to the U.S. this morning, do it. “Thirty hours ago, Euna Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be sent to a hard labor camp. And then suddenly we were told that we were going to a meeting. We were taken to a location and when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us President Bill Clinton.We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end." If you can free yourself from juvenile comments about Clinton for a moment, can you imagine the elation you would have felt to see him standing there? And can you imagine the feeling of simply being home?
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