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Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:51:58 -0400
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Also to add insult to injury, we have never ever had a wide coverage of the
Paralympics, even when the US has hosted an Olympic event.  :(

Kat

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Carla Rockwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We had very good coverage in Canada. We with the Cerebral Palsy list need
> to get busy and write to the execs at NBC, first, then hit the US print
> media. This is unconsionable, well and truly. I'm still fuming!! All those
> US athletes who worked so hard to get where they got and to be slapped in
> the face. Shame on the USA and shame on the television network execs for
> not sufficiently engaging their brains to realise - 'there but for the
> grace of God go I.' They had servicemen and women participating; people who
> lost limbs in defence of their country. I am beyond appalled at how they
> were treated, or rather how they were NOT treated. They were virtually
> ignored which told them very clearly that their service was of NO value, of
> NO importance. Shame on the US!
>
> Are you angry enough to write to NBC and to Barack Obama? Go for it. Do it
> today
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