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"He has family in Alsasua. Educated. Speaks French and has driver’s license. Wants to get out home. Far away. So we have to catch him ASAP.

This is how ETA leaders, the armed and separatist band but overall, the terrorist gang, see one of their next candidate… And some young Basque people still think these guys are heroes. And also some US newspapers still call them "separatist band". Well, so far these heroes and separatist band have killed more than 800 people in Spain, 486 military and 353 civil people (including babies and children, tourists, etc).

I wish that young Basques start seeing these heroes as riffraff, they will not defend neither the Basque country interests nor their own collaborators’ interests. They only take care of themselves. It’s time for some Basques to open their eyes, teens and young people mainly, and look at the future with hope instead of hate. And some neuron may help too.

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Today is a sad day. Late night I saw in the news a picture which made me jump. My ESL teacher picture was there: What’s going on? Hold on – I put my hand on my wife’s who started to make channel surfing. I couldn’t believe it!: Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz has been disappeared! The Seattle police found her car into the ferry and her purse and keys on a table close to the ferry’s cafeteria. And nobody knows what could happened, maybe a suicide, maybe she was kidnapped, the police is working on that.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soundoff/comment.asp?articleID=395991

Lynn was my ESL teacher when I just arrive to the US from Spain. She taught me for a year not only to refresh my rusty English but to make friends, improving my relationships skills, and also she introduced me to the Bellevue Community College, where I had some experiences as well very interesting.

But what I will never forget is the opportunity she gave me to get involved in my community. I thought then that a good idea to improve my English and get a better integration in the US society was to volunteer somewhere. I asked her about that and she encouraged me to volunteer in a Elementary School as a teacher assistant. I will never never never forget that beautiful year, where I share my time with the kids, even her own sweet kids.

I honestly hope she is well wherever she can be. Lynn if you read this, just let you know I’ll never forget. Thank you.