I Felt Provoked - and did something stupid, but do i deserve this ?

[ssob]

6 days after the terrorist bombings I recd an email from an Arab American man referring to Americans as arrogant and prejudice. It infuriated me, to the point I responded on company email. I realize that was the wrong thing to do, but looking back at it I felt provoked.
In the termination letter to my general manager from the owner of the company "To say that I am deeply disappointed in the lack of judgement on XXX part would be an understatement".
A poem was sent via email of a very large company. A negative response to this poem was sent to approximately 60 people. I was the only one furious enough to respond on my company email.
Further in the termination letter, "share in her bigoted insensitivity". The company owner does not know me, does not know of my history, and did not even spell my name correctly.

My response to this gentleman was firm, but did not contain any vulgarity, any references to race, creed, religion or gender, only if he was unhappy here any one on the families who lost someone on tuesday would gladly buy him a ticket home.

Is there any legal recourse for this, I am not arguing the fact that company policy was violated by answering on company email.
Can a man whom I've never met put this type of thing in writing about me ?

 

[HomeGuru]

6 days after the terrorist bombings I recd an email from an Arab American man referring to Americans as arrogant and prejudice. It infuriated me, to the point I responded on company email. I realize that was the wrong thing to do, but looking back at it I felt provoked.
In the termination letter to my general manager from the owner of the company "To say that I am deeply disappointed in the lack of judgement on XXX part would be an understatement".
A poem was sent via email of a very large company. A negative response to this poem was sent to approximately 60 people. I was the only one furious enough to respond on my company email.
Further in the termination letter, "share in her bigoted insensitivity". The company owner does not know me, does not know of my history, and did not even spell my name correctly.

My response to this gentleman was firm, but did not contain any vulgarity, any references to race, creed, religion or gender, only if he was unhappy here any one on the families who lost someone on tuesday would gladly buy him a ticket home.

Is there any legal recourse for this, I am not arguing the fact that company policy was violated by answering on company email.
Can a man whom I've never met put this type of thing in writing about me ?

My response; the man that you have never met IS the owner of your company.
What are you proposing to do here? Sue the company owner for following company policy?
You blew it big time and you know it.