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...OXFORD, England—“Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but are you an American?” a young woman right behind me in line asked in a McDonald’s here in Oxford a few months ago, detecting my unmistakable American accent as I was ordering a large French fries. “Because I’m really so sorry about what happened on Sept. 11,” she continued, “and I want you to know that all of us here in Britain were absolutely...
...that supportive tone here in Europe has done so much to sustain me through a troubled time. When I left the U.S. to study at Oxford just over a year ago, I was freshly traumatized by the national ordeal we all had endured just a couple of weeks before. Leaving friends and family to travel far from home is always tough, but that trip was all the tougher when I knew that my loved ones were living under the cloud of fear and confusion that the terrorists had imposed...
...reinforce our security. And they’re insulting to all those Europeans who share our values and want to work with us to fight the terrorists who killed so many Americans last year. Next time my American accent encourages another sympathetic comment from a Brit in the Oxford McDonald’s, I want to be able to tell her that all Americans value our trans-Atlantic partnership just as much as she does...
...Crimson was unable yesterday to contact Erica’s sister Jasmine Waddell, who is studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar...
...Oxford, England...