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Whose Homeland Is This?

By Annette Fuentes

A week after the 9/11 attacks, I spoke to my nearest neighbor on our sparsely populated road in rural upstate New York. John is a city transplant with a Queens accent and the coffee-colored complexion of his Lebanese parents. He’s a plumber and a tough guy who has been tossed from several local saloons for his fisticuffs, but now fear was… return to article

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