[UPDATED] Welcome Home Ladies! A Bruin Comes Home

by mdjohns4 on Aug 4, 2009 3:51 PM PDT

I know this couldn't be more off topic from Bruin athletics so I'll apologize ahead time if this is against BN protocol, but nonetheless this is great news for any American that I think is worthy of sharing with my favorite blog community. The two Asian-American journalists, Laura Ling, who is a Bruin alum and Euna Lee, who were arrested for crossing the Chinese-North Korean border and sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp have been released and are coming home with a little help from a former President.

Here's a link: via BBC News

GO BRUINS and WELCOME HOME!!!!

UPDATE (N): To underscore the point of this post, here is a flashback from the Daily Bruin in an article from June:

Earlier this month, UCLA alumna Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean labor camp for illegal entry into North Korea.

Ling, 32, was working with Lee, 36, for Current TV, a cable television network co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, at the time of her arrest on March 17 along the North Korean-Chinese border.

Ling’s detention raised concerns from the UCLA community, especially from professors in the communication studies department who were well acquainted with Ling throughout her undergraduate years at UCLA.

Once again to echo what mdjoh wrote: welcome home ladies. GO BRUINS. - N

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Nes....

actually if you could update this post (I don’t know how or if I can) but I believe Laura Ling is a UCLA alum. So this actually is a little more Bruin related than I previously thought.

by mdjohns4 on Aug 4, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Many Thanks

by mdjohns4 on Aug 4, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

You bet

Really glad you posted this. Good stuff and a reminder how real this community is tied together with Bruin bond.

by Nestor on Aug 4, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I will not call out the person whose post I just deleted by name

But don’t come into this thread blaming these ladies for the situation they found themselves. That kind of classless nonsense doesn’t belong here.

by Nestor on Aug 5, 2009 6:53 PM PDT reply actions

That’s cool. I’ll call myself out. It’s your blog, you have the total right to allow and disallow comments as you’d like. I disagree with the classless comment, some would call it a difference of opinion. Mine just matters to me & thought I would share it.

Sorry if I offended anyone.

by impaulv on Aug 5, 2009 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Let's keep

the political debate and implications for the political blogs. Especially given the emotional scene early today in Burbank getting off the plane. Truly a special moment for these young women, their families, and Americans across the country (even around the world).

by mdjohns4 on Aug 5, 2009 6:59 PM PDT reply actions