We are at war.
Here. Not only on another country's soil.
We cannot discuss it openly.
Our government has concealed it.
There are few memorials for our fallen heroes and heroines.
Their struggles have not yet been publicly acknowledged.
We have been under attack by provocateurs for decades,
but our government has not sought the help of the nation it was elected to
serve.
My words are rough and unpolished. They are difficult to write.
If I speak, for the most part, in the first person
it is because I can only relate what has happened to me
and what I have deduced.
Those who know have not done me the courtesy of telling me why,
although I have been under attack for most of my life.
Because we are attacked as individuals,
the details of our suffering have been easier to suppress;
we are intimidated as individuals,
and while our government remains silent,
terrorists are stripping our country of the freedom for which it
stands.
We are targeted as individuals,
and in the official silence,
our right to respond collectively has been denied.
We ask for sanctuary
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