![]() ![]() Kimeli is the first to offer his family’s most valued possession, his cow. ![]() The men, women, and the children are silenced in disbelief, until an elder asks, “’What can we do for these poor people?” For the Maasai, once a nation of feared warriors, “the cow is life” as the peaceful, nomadic cattle herders that they are today. Kimeli, a young Maasai man, returns to his village in Kenya after being away for a long time with “one story has burned a hole in his heart.” He remembers the “uildings so tall they can touch the sky,” he saw the “ires so hot they can melt iron,” he witnessed the “moke and dust so thick they can block out the sun.” He was there in New York City on September 11, 2001. ![]()
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