<\/a><\/p>\nA Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>story published in the anguished days after 9\/11 had two telling quotes from Donald Goodrich, whose son Peter \u201989 was killed when terrorists flew United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n The first quote was this: \u201c[Peter] really could see no evil. He expected the same from everybody else.\u201d The second quote was in response to reporter Tony Blasi asking if Goodrich supported mass retaliation against countries harboring terrorists. \u201cThat accomplishes nothing,\u201d Goodrich said.<\/p>\n But where can the story go from there? How do you reconcile a father and son\u2019s ideals with the bald fact that human evil does exist in the world and that your country, when attacked, must at least protect itself, if not try to make the world a safer place?<\/p>\n One answer is told in this issue’s story “Folks back Home<\/a>,” in which writer Doug Hubley tells the story of the friendship and perspectives of Afghanistan native Mustafa Basij-Rasikh \u201912 and Maine native Jared Golden \u201911, a Marine who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n To a greater or lesser degree, both are at Bates because of 9\/11 and Peter Goodrich.<\/p>\n In 2004, Rush Filson \u201990, a childhood friend of Peter\u2019s, was in Afghanistan with the Marines when he e-mailed Donald Goodrich and his wife, Sally. An Afghan school principal had decided it was worth staying open despite Taliban death threats \u2014 could the Goodriches help send some supplies? Filson asked.<\/p>\n Sally Goodrich calls the e-mail \u201ca moment of grace.\u201d Starting then, through education initiatives in Afghanistan, the Goodriches found a way \u201cto live out Peter\u2019s life in a way that Peter would have responded to,\u201d says Sally.<\/p>\n