Nothing Brings Tears To My Eyes
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Lavender, It is an honorable thing for you to put aside your belief differences and look at them as a human family. They really are that, aren't they?
Yesterday, After George Jr. got off the phone with NY, he answered questions, and in that time he began to cry. He isn't wooden, he isn't fake... he is made of flesh and blood, and I respect him for taking on the pain of all of the Nation right now. I cried because I felt the weight of his job and delimmias and it is amazingly hard to imagine what pressure he feels right now.
He is a saddend man right now, and an angry one, but strong.
We have no reason not to support him in his decisions as president. He seems to really be a moral and just man. Not the ape so many have portrayed him to be. We all fumble our words, misspell things and make mistakes in our references. Those things don't make us men. Our actions do.
I am with you on this one lavender.
God Bless you darling.
Yesterday, After George Jr. got off the phone with NY, he answered questions, and in that time he began to cry. He isn't wooden, he isn't fake... he is made of flesh and blood, and I respect him for taking on the pain of all of the Nation right now. I cried because I felt the weight of his job and delimmias and it is amazingly hard to imagine what pressure he feels right now.
He is a saddend man right now, and an angry one, but strong.
We have no reason not to support him in his decisions as president. He seems to really be a moral and just man. Not the ape so many have portrayed him to be. We all fumble our words, misspell things and make mistakes in our references. Those things don't make us men. Our actions do.
I am with you on this one lavender.
God Bless you darling.
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I was immediately struck by the sight of a female pastor, a childrens choir, Jewish, muslim, and Christian clergy all standing side by side. A black minister. Democrats and Republicans, people of all races, ages, religions putting aside differences to mourn the dead and finding strength together.
That's the America that is always there. That is our foundation when it is all said and done.
It is in the faces of the firemen digging through wreckage for three days staight, and in the face of a young infantryman that knows he will soon be going to some barren desert to try and restore a little justice.
For everything we do wrong, there are ten thousand things we do right. Our nature is justice and fairness, not evil and hatred. We are attacked because some are jealous of what we have achieved. And we absorb far more than we should.
We take our national character for granted, and scrutinize our internal problems so closely that we forget what kind of nation we are, and we forget what made us great. It is sad that it takes this kind of a tragedy to remind us, but maybe it is a measure of our compassion and forgiveness that we do not vaporize nations at every given opportunity. We certainly have the power.
People complain that we were vicious and heartless on the Highway of death in Iraq. I ask them to remember what we could have done, if our president had been a less compassionate man. We are strong, but our strength is tempered with restraint, probably more than any other nation on earth. We put up with more grief in this country every day bending over backwards to give people their rights under the law...as it should be.
Americans should remind themselves daily they live in an imperfect, but fundamentally good and just nation. A nation that always looks for ways to promote freedom instead of oppressing it.
That's the America that is always there. That is our foundation when it is all said and done.
It is in the faces of the firemen digging through wreckage for three days staight, and in the face of a young infantryman that knows he will soon be going to some barren desert to try and restore a little justice.
For everything we do wrong, there are ten thousand things we do right. Our nature is justice and fairness, not evil and hatred. We are attacked because some are jealous of what we have achieved. And we absorb far more than we should.
We take our national character for granted, and scrutinize our internal problems so closely that we forget what kind of nation we are, and we forget what made us great. It is sad that it takes this kind of a tragedy to remind us, but maybe it is a measure of our compassion and forgiveness that we do not vaporize nations at every given opportunity. We certainly have the power.
People complain that we were vicious and heartless on the Highway of death in Iraq. I ask them to remember what we could have done, if our president had been a less compassionate man. We are strong, but our strength is tempered with restraint, probably more than any other nation on earth. We put up with more grief in this country every day bending over backwards to give people their rights under the law...as it should be.
Americans should remind themselves daily they live in an imperfect, but fundamentally good and just nation. A nation that always looks for ways to promote freedom instead of oppressing it.
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I too was impressed with the service. But I couldnt watch all of it. Looking at those people crying, openly, with such grief...well its gets to a girl.
My thots and prayers with all who have lost.
My thots and prayers with all who have lost.
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I dont know a lot about your American Policys or Politics but it was lovely to see your service from your Washington Catherdral on our tv here in England , and hope that you saw ours from St Pauls Cathedral this morning , we sang your National Anthem with our "God Save the Queen"...........and of course "The Lords Prayer "......lovely to see people getting on for once instead of fighting ......all the differnt political parties actually speaking not arguing .........
God bless you all .......
God bless you all .......
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All the infighting in Congess and even the vehement arguments on this BB have disappeared. We've been stripped of the political, racial, and ideological labels that divided us, and we have come to realize that in the end we are all Americans.
It's sad that it took this kind of tragedy for us to realize who we really are. But at least we now know.
It's sad that it took this kind of tragedy for us to realize who we really are. But at least we now know.
Miles, that is right..... to an extent.
Someone shot a bullet hole through a window in the Mosque here in my town on Wednesday 2000 ft, from their car on the Highway.
It is one of my favorite landmarks aside from Fort Meigs. I am sad today that so many Muslims are hiding in their homes, out of fear.
I prayed today that bigotry of all kinds will end in this Nation too.
Someone shot a bullet hole through a window in the Mosque here in my town on Wednesday 2000 ft, from their car on the Highway.
It is one of my favorite landmarks aside from Fort Meigs. I am sad today that so many Muslims are hiding in their homes, out of fear.
I prayed today that bigotry of all kinds will end in this Nation too.
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That's what I've been trying to tell you.
PS Colonel Stanislov Lunev believes that this is only the beginning and that his former country Russia [still the soviets to me] have had nuclear weapons on our soil for some time and war plans that begin with a terrorist attack as a diversion. (Current piece on Newsmax).
Just so you would know.
PS Colonel Stanislov Lunev believes that this is only the beginning and that his former country Russia [still the soviets to me] have had nuclear weapons on our soil for some time and war plans that begin with a terrorist attack as a diversion. (Current piece on Newsmax).
Just so you would know.
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Fucktards. All of them
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I was just thinking that this afternoon. I don't think I've heard the term "African -American" since Tuesday. I've only heard "American."miles said:
I think that is a good thing, and I hope it lasts for a long time.
As far as being president, I wouldn't want that job in peace time much less at the brink of a war. God help President Bush, so that he may help all of us.
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I have read the text of President Bush's address but haven't been able to see theservice yet. I'll record it tonight and watch tomorrow.
For the victims: We share the red, white and blue with you. Our eyes are red as we shed tears for this loss; our souls burn white hot in outrage as evil reaches out to touch us all; our national heart will be forever blue because you were stolen from us.
For the victims: We share the red, white and blue with you. Our eyes are red as we shed tears for this loss; our souls burn white hot in outrage as evil reaches out to touch us all; our national heart will be forever blue because you were stolen from us.
