A letter to Terrorist

Dori Berger dsberger@mags.net
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:58:07 -0400


An open letter to a terrorist:

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America.
You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American
bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a
poor marksman, you STILL missed America.

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand.
America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers,
not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America
isn't even about a bunch of bodies.

America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can
earn as much as you can figure out how to, live
for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No
guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany:
"If you can not see my point, then feel my pain."
This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where
we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We
don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one.
Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has
to agree with you.

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country,
looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if
they misuse it.

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't
live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it's called.
And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us,
won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind
of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner, then it
becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.


Author Unknown.


FLAGS ACROSS AMERICA To show the terrorists that our American  spirit is
stronger than ever, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14
is "Flags Across  America." All Americans are asked to display
the American flag in their  homes, businesses or cars. Let's keep
the meaning of UNITED in "United  States".


Pass this onto as many people as you know.




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