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Article: Young people from New York City and Northern Ireland share experiences with terrorism
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 26, 2002
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Dateline: NEW YORK
In a stark college room near ground zero, a group of young New Yorkers
on Friday heard stories of coping and recovery from young survivors
of a 1998 terrorist bombing in Northern Ireland.
In a teleconference organized for Global Youth Services Day, the New
Yorkers, all from Stuyvesant High School and Manhattan Community College,
heard from Claire Gallagher, who was 15 when a car bomb in Omagh
left her blind.
"When I'd been told that I wouldn't see again, I didn't know what
to think, I didn't know what to do," said Gallagher, now a university
student. "Most of all, I was glad I was still here."
She said her decision to get a guide ...