Flight 93 family advocates peace -
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Published on: 9/12/2002
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Deora's aunt and uncle, Walt and Sandra Bodley of Sebastopol, also struggled with the larger questions, particularly what to do with their own feelings of loss after Deora was killed on United Airlines Flight 93 last Sept. 11.
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"It's been a year of just pain and emptiness," said Sandra Bodley, who has taught nursing at Sonoma State University for 28 years."It came to a head at Christmas when Deora didn't come.That was a defining moment for me. Derrill (Deora's father) and Deora would always be there.
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"Deora was a very vivacious, outgoing young lady who had a real sense of service in the world," Sandra Bodley recalled of her brown-haired niece.Deora helped young children through the America Reads program and volunteered at the San Diego Zoo.At her memorial at Santa Clara University, friends recalled it was Deora everyone came to with their problems.
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In August, Walt and Sandra Bodley joined the 40-family group in Massachusetts for a retreat, after which they visited the crash site in Shanksville, Pa.
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But we're providing another voice, and it's a voice of reason rather than react," Sandra Bodley said."We were just wondering what we could do that would honor Deora's memory and be of any meaning."
The group, which has met some resistance, is advocating diplomatic solutions, economic sanctions, prevention through better intelligence gathering and justice through international courts.
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Sandra Bodley said she will remember Flight 93 by spreading her peace alternative in whatever forum is available.She will give a talk and reminisce about Deora at 2 p.m. today in Room 143 of Darwin Hall at Sonoma State University.
"It's my way of honoring Deora as the wonderful young lady she was and to keep her message of peacemaking before me and my network of friends and colleagues.To reach out in any way I can.That's the way she was and this message is true to her."