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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3894)	12/11/2001 3:14:28 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Yes, damn shame about Peter Blake, Mq. Not the first eco-hero killed by bandits. The lady who protected the mountain gorillas in Uganda was also cowardly assasinated. Her name presently escapes me. Why wasn't he armed? Or was he armed and unable to get to his weapons? One would think that he would be well-armed in view of the well-known fact that river pirates infested the neighborhood.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3894)	12/11/2001 3:22:39 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 12247

I was referring to the 911 horrors. To celebrate Marconi's without at least noting the world-wide commemoration of September seemed callous. I had read of Sir Peter Blake's death, but I didn't know how close his English connections were. It's strange that pirates are often thought of as part of the romantic past, when they are still a very real and nasty problem. Perhaps romanticism of pirates is a British or, more specifically, an English thing? - Drake and various other Elizabethan seamen made their living from plundering foreign ships while the English Government's attitude varied from irritation, through toleration, to encouragement.