Amen, Dave.
I’ve never before seen such an outpouring of love and emotion. I was in the Donation Center having a pint pumped from my arm yesterday, and for the first time I heard the recording of a woman calling her husband from the WTC before it collapsed. The nurses and I all cried and hugged.
Am not proud of everything our country has done in the past. Pinochet, Mobotu, selling missiles to Russia…we are not all good. But we are not all bad, by any means. If it takes something like this to remind us all that we are human, linked together in our freedom and our desire to perpetuate it, than perhaps something good will emerge from all this distruction.
Right now, seeing the American flags waving, hearing about the selflessness of all the rescue workers, seeing how many people flooded my donation center Tuesday and Wednesday, I am proud to be an American. I am proud that we stand for a freedom beyond the laws of man, but in the realm of the common human rights that every person on this Earth deserves and that many are willing to die for.
To the terrorists, to bin Laden who hates all Americans, to the countries who hate us because we fight for what they repudiate, we may be a nameless, faceless giant that must be toppled. But as Americans, we know better than this. We will not be toppled. Our freedom and our nation are indivisible, and will survive this.
Milo, this moved me to tears. Thank you for posting that.