Immediately after I heard the news of Paris attack, I tried contacting a French friend of mine who had studied with me at Cornell. I was able to verify that she was safe. However, I could tell she was shaken by the trauma. She told me that her apartment was pretty close to Bataclan, the theatre where most of the causalities took place and she had personally witnessed many dead bodies. I was grateful to find that she was alive and well but at the same time, my heart was crying for the French, as I vividly recalled that France was one of the countries which had been at the forefront of opposing the ill-fated U.S. decision to attack Iraq. If anything, France had made the right choice back then...
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