Subject: Open Letter
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An email from Charles Brennan, 18 year old
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. 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.
You guys seen to be incapable of understanding that we
don't live in America, America live 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.
Charles Brennan
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
I like it...kind of sums up what we,America, are about more or less.
xBAT
