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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Sep 15, 2001 4:22 am Subject: Deaf Students' Expression of Sorrow | ||||||||
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SignWriting List September 14, 2001 My dear friends, Stefan, Irina, and everyone - Thank you for the SignWriting messages expressing sorrow over the tragedy. Your SignWriting is clearly written. It helps to write about sorrow. We are in shock here. Work stopped for me since Tuesday. Although none of my family was killed, it still feels like it. Friends were killed. The attack was on the world, not just the US, since many people from all over the world...educated and dedicated people...worked at the World Trade Center. The name of the towers means just that "the World Center"...and so they attacked the world on Tuesday.... I can imagine your poor children and students must be frightened...but we will do our best through SignWriting to give them a channel of expression - ....And through continued positive thinking and belief in a higher power, we can all change the world for the better...and we all must work to do so...for the next generation. I am writing my responses to the Deaf children in SignWriting right now. I am not a teacher of ASL, but I do sign with Deaf friends, so you can tell your students that Valerie knows her symbols, but Deaf people are the experts on the signs themselves!...I write ASL with a hearing person's accent ;-) Please give all your Deaf students a big hug from me. Tell Irina that "Yes...I did see the horrible news on television too"...and "Yes...it is bad, but we are going to make it better again, and she must not be frightened." I hope she and her classmates will write more SignWriting about their feelings, and send them to me. Then I will post them on the front page of my web site, along with messages from the Deaf students in New Mexico. And Stefan, I saw your web pages and they are absolutley wonderful - the drawings on beautiful - what talented students you have! Please see my next message for my response to Irina - Val ;-) Valerie Sutton | ||||||||
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