My son sent me the following this day. Who is this man who seems to know my thoughts, no, so very many American’s thoughts as they have evolved over the past 72 hours?

With apologies Jboy……don’t read this…it will just enflame you all over again toward this ‘Nazi’ grandmother.

Subject: Miami Herald Article

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>>A really outstanding commentary….
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>>Subject: Miami Herald: "We’ll go forward from this moment"
>&gtublished Wednesday, September 12, 2001
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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 dome 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,
>&gtrobably, 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.
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>>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.