Beverly Eckert, a story of achivement!
Have you ever wonder, how your life would be after you lose someone special to you? Well you are not the only one that hasn’t and Beverly Eckert was one more person in earth that hadn't think about it. She was a regular women like anyone else, she was very happy, and world's events didn’t affect her until the 9/11 attacks, when her whole life turned upside down. “World events didn't seem to affect me, that's what I believed at the time. All that changed on Sept. 11th, and I guess I just found that I couldn't just sit back and be a victim. I hate that word; I guess we're always called victims' families and things like that. I hate that term, what it conveys is helplessness and no control. I think …ver más…

“I think we all know now that the Iraqi war was kind of predestined before Sept. 11. That was going to happen anyway and Sept. 11 was used to motivate the American people to support the war. It just breaks my heart that people go over there and are dying and being mutilated and they believe what they've been told, that this is the way to fight terrorism, this is the way to prevent another Sept. 11th. And there are a lot of family members that don't agree with that.” Beverly added.
Six or seven months after Sept. 11th, she joined the group Peaceful Tomorrows. In Peaceful Tomorrows she met people who share the same point of view as her about violence. She participated in many marches against the war in Iraq, where she showed her discontent of the way the Bush administration used the 9/11 attack to motivate people to support the war. Beverly Eckery died in the Buffalo airplane crash on February 12, 2009, and until her last day of life she was a strong supporter against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Interview with Beverly Eckert - Stamford, CT, March 3, 2004