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Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 07:54 PM by Roland99
I remember well the way the country became one right after 9/11. We were attacked by an unknown assailant and ~3,000 people were killed in an instant. An American icon (the WTC) and the heart of our military command center (the Pentagon) were attacked, as well.
We weren't Republican/Democrat, liberal/conservative, black/white, rich/poor. We were all Americans. I had respect for Bush when he got on TV and choked back tears to address the nation.
Fast forwarding to this week and our country has again suffered a brutal attack. This time the assailant wasn't some force we could retaliate against. Rather, it was Mother Nature and part of the tragedy is due to man's long-held belief that he can conquer the earth and build whatever, whereever, with the right technology. Mother Nature proved she can outdo some of our best engineering.
There certainly is blame to go around for the levee break and it goes back beyond this administration. That's not the important point, though.
What matters now is that people, human beings, fellow Americans, both young and old and both rich and poor were and still are in need of food and water simply to survive another day.
I am disgusted to see some of the utterly callous comments around the nation, dismissing human life like a rotted apple. I am even more disgusted by this administration's apparent willful negligence in responding as fast as possible to save lives.
I would hope that everyone who has said or spoken this despicable crap would be embarrassed to admit they did so in front of their parents and even their grandparents or even their minister or their kids. Maybe some were raised with little or no morals or little or no parental involvement. All I know is that hatred is a learned trait. Somewhere along the line these people made the conscious decision that to belittle those less fortunate than themselves makes them feel better about their own miserable, impotent lives.
Maybe Lee Greenwood will come out with a song called, I'm Sad To Be An American.
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