My daughter lives in NYC, worked near the WTC, and is SAFE!!!! I feel blessed but I also share this sentiment...
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. We can't guarantee that
you'll reach it, but we give you the chance to 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. We don't agree with
each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection
of guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to
protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the
spot.
You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of
the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes
of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too,
because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to
fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew
of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground.
Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to
turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on
our shores, just the most recent.
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to
point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're
probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're
safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did. They were wrong. So are you. Better
start sleeping with one eye open.
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. The Marielistas that Castro emptied
out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was.
First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The
ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big problem then
(especially in south Florida). We solved that
problem. As for you, you're only the newest problem, not the first.
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.
EDIT> I wish I could acknowledge the author, unfortunately it is author unknown, a friend just gave it to me and I wanted to share it.
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. We can't guarantee that
you'll reach it, but we give you the chance to 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. We don't agree with
each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection
of guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to
protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the
spot.
You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of
the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes
of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too,
because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to
fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew
of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground.
Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to
turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on
our shores, just the most recent.
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to
point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're
probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they're
safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did. They were wrong. So are you. Better
start sleeping with one eye open.
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. The Marielistas that Castro emptied
out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was.
First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The
ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big problem then
(especially in south Florida). We solved that
problem. As for you, you're only the newest problem, not the first.
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.
EDIT> I wish I could acknowledge the author, unfortunately it is author unknown, a friend just gave it to me and I wanted to share it.
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