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Is America Really as Safe a Place to Live as You Thought?

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So as the poet John Donne once noted, "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

 

I am ever conscious these days that the bell could easily toll for me.   That's why the chill I felt long ago on those foreign tarmacs is with me still. It's why I look over my shoulder, metaphorically, more than I wish I had to.   And it's why I won't be driving through Texas any time soon.

 

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Elayne Clift is a writer,lecturer, workshop leader and activist. She is senior correspondent for Women's Feature Service, columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (VT) Commons and a contributor to various publications internationally. (more...)
 
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