Re: RC: Where does UAE stand? from Angie

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

I attended the Olympics in Canada in 1976. The seating for the dressage was 
on a hillside. There were armed (with rifles, not just sidearms)guards 
visible in the treeline at the top of the hill, and most likely surrounding 
the entire venue. It was a bit unsettling, because other wise the country 
felt just like "home".
We Americans have had a feeling of security all of our lives, that other 
countries have never taken for granted.

Nancy Mitts


>From: "BE" <betndez@budget.net>
>To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:   Where does UAE stand? from Angie
>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:30:43 -0700
>
>
>     One of my most vivid impressions of the WEC in the UAE was going into 
>the stadium guarded by armed guards--there to prevent terrorism.
>
>     Heidi
>
>
>         Yes, mine too, and thanks for pointing this out.  That is an 
>experience that probably most in the U.S. have not had. . . attending 
>concerts, ball games, any large public gathering, and being surrounded by 
>men with weapons.  During my years of traveling in developing countries, 
>several in Africa as well as Southeast Asia, it was first scary and 
>shocking to walk along streets or enter buildings being faced with men 
>holding big guns at the ready (I don't know what kind but some looked like 
>machine guns and others looked like elephant rifles) pointed at my chest.  
>Amazingly, after awhile I got used to it and hardly gave them a glance.
>     In time people, like horses, become inured to almost anything.
>     Is there a message here for us?
>     Betty Edgar


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