I have watched the speeches by our honorable President, seen the outpouring of sympathy from people all over the world, in nations that count us an enemy in normal times.
The site Videoholic posted earlier touched my heart.
http://home.earthlink.net/~hankinhsd/thankyou.htmI am an American, and very soon my countrymen will be at war on the other side of the world, to deliver justice. Justice to the evil, spineless, motherless wretches who commited this savagery, and justice to the people of America, to those who lost friends and loved ones, to the entire world, and anyone who views these acts of cowardice for what they are. Those who offer sympathy, and those who offer help, I would personally tell you if I could, but this is the extent I can do it, that I likely speak for all Americans when I say that I count you as brethren.
I have not thought much of our neighbors, and I have in the past made fun of other nations on this forum. Even though it is always in light humor that I do so, right now I could not force myself to make fun of a Canadian or a Briton or Frenchman. Right now the entire world is coming together, the likes of which has never been seen. Even in World War II such unity did not exist. We have our enemies, but we have many more friends. I am a student of history. My grandfather flew against Germany in North Africa as an RAF fighter pilot in the second World War. I consider him and his generation heroes for our cause, as do everyone else. In the future our children and grandchildren will be revering us in the same manner, and god forbid they ever face something worse.
The heroes will be the firefighters, policemen and rescue workers in New York. They will be the soldiers, pilots, and sailors who are going to destroy our enemy. They are anyone and everyone who does what they can to help our men and women in whatever way they can.
We are living history now. In sixty years stories will be told, songs will be written, movies will be made about the unity and heroism of the civlized, united world. Disney will make an overbudgeted cheesy movie about this.
It may be that the terrorists have helped begin exactly what they intended to end: A unified, free world. I hope that the unity between America and our friends and allies does not end after we eliminate our enemy. I hope someday every nation will be a part of the UN.
God bless the military men, the crews in New York, and Washington, and humanity as a whole, except for the ones who would destroy it.
Ryan Usher, Proud American
