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9/11-My true story of being held captive in Iran during 9/11,
Though she endured a childhood of physical and sexual abuse, nothing would ever equal what happened to her in Iran the weeks following 9/11.
Lori, an American married to an Iranian, had been working and living as an ordinary member of Iranian society for almost 4 years when she had heard rumors that the U.S. was going to be attacked. That was on September 9, 2001. She tried and failed to call home and give warning.
The news that all those rumors were horribly true came on September 11th 2001. That was when her husband suddenly announced that they had to go back to the States in case there were repercussions.
On September 12, 2001, Lori and her husband were at the Shiraz bus terminal intending to catch a bus to Istanbul and from there to Heathrow and home to the U.S.A. They were totally unprepared for the convoy of troop carriers that suddenly drove up and the armed men who came pouring out to take the hapless couple prisoner.
There was no explanation offered. The men took Lori’s husband one direction and she another, pushing them blindfolded into the back of the troop carriers with other prisoners, mostly Iranian.
Who the armed men were was anybody’s guess but they took their prisoners to POW camp in unfamiliar territory and there, Lori was held, tortured, raped, and starved with them for over a month. Her husband was not to be seen again.
Lori was rescued with one of her fellow inmates by the girl’s family and, after riding a llama for 1-2 days over mountainous terrain; she arrived at the Iran Immigration center. By then, she weighed in at only 70 pounds, was still suffering from the many injuries she’d received at the hands of her torturers, and wanted badly to get home to her family in the USA. Even then, she had to fight Iranian Islamic bureaucracy to have permission to go, as the husband was unavailable to grant it. In any Islamic country, unknown to many western women, the husband or guardian’s permission is always required for a woman to travel anywhere.
Lori had been married to Mohammad for 9 years and thought she could trust him but, since their arrival in Iran in 1998, his personality and behavior had changed so radically as to make this most recent nightmare highly suspicious.
The events told here are true. It was no coincidence that this American citizen had been placed into a concentration camp. In fact, it raises many questions and should be a caution to many!
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Fellow bloggers….a category for you!
Fellow bloggers and friends, I’d like to start a category for all my friends and bloggers who might have something important to say. Not saying that EVERYTHING you say is important. But when it is something you urge to be shared or if it touches me in that way that only some things can, I will re-post your blog entry or award here. If you go to the categories I will add “BLOGGERS & FRIENDS”.
The first addition to the new category is Micki Peluso’s recent interview.
I hope we all utilize this category to the best of it’s ability and share those things that are really IMPORTANT to get out and/or something that just needs to be said somewhere else besides on your blog. I thank you and I hope this is a good idea.
Lori
Reader Appreciation Award (MY NOMINEES):)
We are at the end of January of the new year and my blog is studdned and appreciateve upon receiving the Reader Appreciation Award from ranniyork . While I try to visit blogs as often as I can, lately I’ve been lagging and I apologize. But Raani’s blog is WONDERFUL, insightful and has a lot of variety and I visit it quite often. Even once in a while when I’m not too busy (for which I apologize for) I even leave comments:). I urge you all to visist this blog and choose to follow it, I guarantee you won’t be sorry. She is an insightful individual with whom I have the utmost respect for.
Click the link above and click “follow” with your “WordPress” account and enter your email with any other account!
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As with any award, there are rules. The “rules” for this award state that
1) I apparently cannot award someone who has already been awarded. Now, that is a tough one! Some bloggers receive awards and do not display the badges plus it would take an immense amount of time to go to all my followers blogs to see who and who has not received the award. As for this blog: it was a recipient in 2012 but this is my first in 2013. I suppose it is okay to accept since it is a new year.
2) And I cannot give the award back to the person who bestowed it upon her.
With those thoughts in mind, I would like to thank all of the people who comment on my blog, but especially ranniyork who honored me with this award. She’s a regular visitor and comments quite often on my blog!
To my recipients, here are all the rules for this award: 1.Award your top 6 bloggers who have commented the most. 2.Be thankful. 3.You cannot award someone who has already been awarded. And you cannot give the award back to me. 4.Don’t forget to tell the bloggers you’ve awarded. 5.If you don’t want to pass on this award, that’s okay to. Just admire it.
I herewith do bestow the Reader Appreciation Award to. . .
http://www.deirdretolhurst.blogspot.com/ Deirdre Tolhurst
http://delindamccann.blogspot.com/ Delinda McCann
http://www.mallie1025.blogspot.com/ Micki Peluso
http://iousex.blogspot.com/ Sandra’ Nachlinger & Allen
http://extraordinaryireland.blogspot.com/ Rosemary Adkins
http://www.lisafender.com/ Lisa Fender
Please, ALL visitors and followers: The one drawback I see to the blogger awards is the limitation toward paying each award forward. While I may have listed only a few, the names missing does NOT mean your visits go unappreciated. Should anyone want to grab the badge and pass it on to your own readers please do so! After all, it is all about paying it forward: joy is in the giving!
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Gun violence in schools
I thought this article was excellent in it’s explanation of arming teachers in order to protect students. It was posted by a retired school teacher and it has covered aspects of the situation that I never thought of….welll done Mr. Thomas!
http://delindalmccann.weebly.com/2/post/2013/01/teachers-packing-heat-preposterous.html
"Lori's Song" 