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You know what I dont like?

· People who feel the only real threat to world peace are people who wish to be free.

· People who think the defense and expansion of human liberty are “cultural imperialism”, but slavery and genocide are simply "cultural misunderstandings".

· People who think ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ are just fallacies for small-minded religious nuts.

· People who insist on their ‘right to free speech’, yet make death threats at others for simply speaking in opposition.

· People who say “dissent is patriotic” yet condemn any overt display of patriotism.

· People who believe that peace comes into being by any other process, except capitulation.

· People who cannot accept the reality of the evil that men do.

· People who decry crass commercialism, and then condemn the desire to find meaning in ones life.

· People who think that there was no world before they were born and that the world will end when they die.

· People who forget the sacrifices of their ancestors.

· People who fail to understand what a miracle their life really is.

· How every man who defends freedom is considered 'another Hitler', while every Socialist dictator is considered a "true savior of mankind”.

· The way people say they “support the troops”, yet deride their service and sacrifice at every opportunity.

· The way most everyone fails to recognize the simple elegance of a sunrise.

· The way I learned to accept the act of stepping over homeless people on the way to work as something normal.

· The quiet shame I feel for never having served my country.

· The way I miss my father and he’s not even gone.

· The way this time of year I look over my shoulder and I talk in hushed tones every time I hear a siren, hoping that the nightmare hasn’t returned.

· The dread I feel when I turn on the TV or the radio first thing in the morning. The silent hope of wishing that the first thing I hear is a commercial, knowing if I do, that things are ‘normal’.

· The way I choke back tears every time I see the WTC in the backdrop of a movie.

· The grief I feel when I think of all that we’ve gone through since that black day.

· The sadness I feel when I think of how far we have to go.

Posted @ September 08, 2004 10:26 PM | Election 2004

Comments

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Posted by: Da Goddess at September 9, 2004 10:26 AM

"The dread I feel when I turn on the TV or the radio first thing in the morning."

Wow, me too.

And the dread I feel everytime I hear a plane fly over my house. I live a couple towns from Westover Air Force Base and I was always used to the sound of the big cargo planes that fly over. But, before I turned on the TV that 9/11 morning I heard the sound of a different plane, a higher pitched sound that would fade and come back, over and over again, for a long time. I knew something was up and, after putting on a pot of coffee, ran to the TV to find out what it was. I could have never expected to see what I actually saw that morning. God I hope I never see anything like it again, but I know that it's very likely I will.

Posted by: Cara Remal at September 9, 2004 07:21 PM

Well said, man, well said.

Don't ever miss an opportunity to tell someone you love them either. It may be the last thing you ever say to them.

Posted by: kelly at September 9, 2004 09:01 PM