Terrorists at Paris

And Paris Cries

By

B.D. Adams

©2015

     On this typical Saturday afternoon, here in the United States, my fiancé and I were watching college football. I wasn’t at my laptop, but decided to see if I had any emails. That’s when I saw the Yahoo! homepage account of what was going on in Paris!!

     As when I first heard on the radio station, in 2001, about a plane that crashed into a building in New York City, I wasn’t aware it was a Tower in New York City. Once I turned on the TV to understand what was happening in NYC, the reality bit hard. The same as when I first became aware of what I was reading about in France!

     Terrorists in Paris!! Many already dead and even more wounded!

     I said to Daniel, “Turn to CNN. Something horrible’s happening in Paris.”

     When I saw on the news station that my beautiful Paris was under siege by terrorists, “Oh, my God” went through my mind and came out of my mouth many times.

     The other word was, “Why?”

     No crying, but misty eyes at what this meant. Of course, my deduction was that ISIS was responsible … and they were, as learned later!

     The City of Light can now be described as “The City of Fear!” Now, they will not feel comfortable with whom they might see near to them. Rather like New Yorkers after the Towers were destroyed. Paris has been marred by uncouth, hateful churls that didn’t have the decency to respect a city of art and culture.

     The terrorists had absolutely no respect for beauty and history in their world!! Fine – destroy the history and beauty of your land. Why destroy, cause mayhem in a land many hundreds of miles/kilometers away that took in the refugees from the world these terrorists had destroyed?

     Granted, the terrorists hadn’t destroyed monuments or museum pieces (as far as what has been reported), but Paris is a state-of-mind, not only of tangible items.

     I had been very fortunate to visit Paris many times when my husband (at the time) and I lived in Germany (read other Blog Posts). We had been to the Louvre to see the fantastic paintings and all the ancient artifacts and all the monuments that Paris boasts.

     Many times we would sit at sidewalk cafes to enjoy wine or beer along with Parisian foods.

     My ex-husband was a marathoner and would go on his training runs in the mornings in Paris while I would enjoy coffee and a pastry and read a magazine to await his return. I am so thankful nothing like that happened when we were there.

     Even with the attack on the Towers in New York, there will never be an answer to that huge, unbelievable WHY!!!!

     These men committed murder … yes, murder … of non-military people, nowhere in their war-zone. Unbelievable!

     And that is the other question. Where IS THEIR war-zone? If they are truly trying to make the world their war-zone, are these churls really that inane, that stupid?

     I mean, even the Russians seem not on their side. Granted, Russian assault-rifles had been found in a car parked on the street and by the killed terrorists, who died mostly by their hand -- suicide. However, those weapons could have been gotten by many other sources.

     My memories of Europe, which of course include Paris, are now tainted by this horrible, nasty … no word really describes my feelings. However, my mind will remain with these people of love, art and integrity!

     Will there be other mindless acts of devastation or murder? Probably. I and others can only hope, beyond hope, that these military misfits will be found out by people in their religion – whatever religion that could be -- or families to discontinue this very unnecessary slaughter!

Pray for Paris

And all other cities and countries hurt by ISIS!

Venus de Milo -- Louvre