'I cried': Crestview residents react to Parisian terror attacks

Crestview Area Sister City Program members Col. Don Bohler, Marie-Claude Bohler and Maj. Gen. Robert Chedister speak at a May 2015 ceremony in Noirmoutier. Responding to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, Marie-Claude, a native Frenchwoman, said, "I thought of these barbarians...who value death as much as we value life...and I wonder, are they so beyond music, beyond the human music, and do we have the choice or do we have to purely eliminate them and become, in turn, barbarians?"

CRESTVIEW — As images of bloodshed, the sound of gunfire, the flash of blue police lights and the wail of sirens filled TVs, computer monitors, tablets and smartphone screens in the wake of the Nov. 13 terror attacks on Paris, area residents with connections to France followed the unfolding tragedy in disbelief.

Members of the Crestview Area Sister City Program, who just two weeks before had bid “au revoir” to 34 visitors from Noirmoutier, share their reactions to the assaults.

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