Dear Friends,

I want to share my experience at the Hillary Clinton campaign speech in Houston, Texas on March 3rd.

It was a very well attended event. President Clinton gave a half hour speech mainly on the economy and the future of the country. My husband and I displayed placards that we prepared and took to the event.

We were at a vantage point from where the President could easily spot us and as he was being introduced by a fellow politician, Bill Clinton looked toward us, read the messege on the placard and gave a "thumbs-up".

The letter that was carried by me with some devastating pictures of the violence in North & East, could not be delivered as the secret service agents refused to accept any envelopes.

As President Clinton got into his vehicle ready to leave, we still continued to hold the placards and the person who sat next to President Clinton, got out of the vehicle, prompted by Mr Clinton, requested one of the secret service agents to collect both our (only our) placards.

To our utter surprise, the Agent came up to me and picked up the placard I was carrying and then gestured to my husband to hand over his as well and took it to the President who was inside the vehicle.

A few minutes later, the Agent brought the placards back to us with Bill Clinton's autograph!

Afterwards, some people came and asked us to show them the message on the placards that attracted Mr President, out of the hundreds of other slogans!

This shows that President Clinton recognises the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils and all the credit goes out to you all for having done a great job in exposing the situation in Sri Lanka!