I got this in the email...it is everything that we are thinking, feeling, and saying. And I encourage you to pass it on
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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. There's a spirit that tends to take
over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for
liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. 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.

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