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Lori Smith

 

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Cloverdale, California, USA
Post  Posted 14 Sep 2001 7:53 am    
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[This message was edited by Lori Smith on 14 September 2001 at 08:54 AM.]

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Lubbock , Tx. U S A
Post  Posted 14 Sep 2001 9:11 am    
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Ron Page

 

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Penn Yan, NY USA
Post  Posted 14 Sep 2001 11:34 am    
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Miami Herald
Leonard J Pitts
Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001


We'll go forward from this moment

It's my job to have something to say.

They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the
American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting
disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem
to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World
Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn?
Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a
family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family
nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional
energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's
misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready
availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we
walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are
fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle
to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority
of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak.
You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot
be measured by arsenals.

IN PAIN

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still
grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to
make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some
Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel.
Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final
death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of
terrorism in the history of the United States and, probably, the history of
the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall.
This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time
anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and
monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in
our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any
suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I
think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with
dread of the future.

In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers
pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be
done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security,
misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment
sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.

THE STEEL IN US

You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of our
character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this
day, the family's bickering is put on hold.

As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we
will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe
you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the
case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You
don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know
what you just started.

But you're about to learn.

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Jimmy Campbell


From:
Fayette, Alabama.
Post  Posted 14 Sep 2001 12:02 pm    
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Lori.
That picture says it all without any words.
The ladies in the office down the hall had received the picture on the internet and copied it in color and brought me an 8x10.
It will go in a frame right over my desk for all to see.
God Bless America.
Jimmy
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tim duvall

 

From:
greensburg,pa,usa
Post  Posted 14 Sep 2001 1:37 pm    
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well,
I had this picture as wallpaper on my computer, but after thinking about ti for a while, I thought you know even though it is a good picture, I think it portrays a little too much of America being down and defeated. A bald eagle (national bird) crying with the burning twin towers-is this our portration of america now? Just take a look at the $10000's of dollars being raised by local people, the 1000's of volunteers. No, I don't think this picture portrays the right message. I know have an F15 on my computer and 'Ol Glory hanging in my office.
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