TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Feeling Proud of Three Americans who Foiled Terrorist Attack in France

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Feeling Proud of Three Americans who Foiled Terrorist Attack in France

I've been feeling proud of these three Americans who foiled a terrorist attack in a train heading from Amsterdam to Paris: l-r in the picture Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, American Ambassador Jane Hartley, and Alek Skarlatos.

I've been following every scrap of news about this incident since the news broke and am looking forward to tomorrow's event where the heroes will be honored by French President Francois Hollande.

Kudos also to the other brave men who fought the train terrorist: the French who wishes to be anonymous, French-American Mark Moogalian, and Briton Chris Norman.

Brave men, all of them!

Read a followup article about "Americans Receive France's Highest Medal" After Subduing Gunman on Train.

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Tags: terrorist attack, train, France, American servicemen, Spencer Stone, Alex Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, France train attack, #francetrain

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.