Relative of anybody we know?

Correspondent:: "just john"
Date: 22 Feb 2005 06:30:05 -0800

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I saw it here: http://www.prwatch.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5356 , but
it's in various other places on the web.

Dorothy Stang

ANAPU, Brazil (AP) -- An elderly American nun killed in the struggle to
protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers and ranchers was buried in
her adopted homeland after a funeral attended by thousands who
remembered her courage and dedication.

Mourners held up saplings to symbolize the jungle Dorothy Stang died
defending as they followed the coffin containing her bullet-ridden body
down a dirt road to a graveyard.

"I feel like a river without water, a forest without trees. It's like
losing a mother," said Fernando Anjos da Silva, who said Stang helped
him get medical care after a logging accident that left him in a
wheelchair.

Stang, 73, a naturalized Brazilian originally from Dayton, Ohio, helped
develop projects to sustain the poor in the area of Anapu, a town of
7,000 on the Amazon's southern edge.

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So, this is what being in a family with Ivan Stang drives people to do?
Perhaps in atonement?

Or is it the other way around, with our Rev. Stang trying to pull his
tribe back toward and average of normal couchpotatohood?

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