Son's death on 9/11 builds lives in Afghanistan
                   
theithacajournal.com     Jul 25, 2008            

Couple speaks to students at Tompkins Cortland Community College By Liz Lawyer • Journal Staff • July 25, 2008 DRYDEN — Sally Goodrich reached her hand out toward the young Afghan boy, offering him a handshake. After a moment of confusion, he grabbed her hand for a brief moment. “That was really bad of me,” Goodrich said with a laugh. “He's not supposed to touch a woman.” The moment of unawareness happened in Afghanistan in 2005, on a trip Goodrich took to see the beginning of construction on a girls' school she made possible from her home in the United States. Captured in the footage of a documentary in progress, Goodrich's trip was only one of five she has made to the Middle Eastern country. “What do you think?” someone asked her from behind the camera. The beginnings of the school rose behind her, built stone by stone by... [read full story]                    


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