Just received this from a friend of mine.
Subject: Open Letter to Terrorist
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:03 PM
Open Letter to 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. 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.
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.
[ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: Heater ]
