Saturday, July 3, 2004

[1863 - Union troops repel assault on Cemetery Ridge during Battle of Gettysburg]

9-11 Changed Nothing

These assassins have always walked among us, or lurked just outside the gates. Our greatest President was taken by one. In William's lifetime another President (who may have ranked among the greatest) was cut down in his prime by a sudden terrorist attack. These were domestic terrorists, just as were those who brought down a federal building in Oklahoma City with great loss of innocent American lives. Foreign terrorists filled with hate have descended before on great civilizations. Rome obliterated Carthage and then was sacked by barbarians with untold loss of civilian life. So why do we say that 9-11 changed everything? Was it because it has always happened to the other guys before? Was it the fact that we were treated to the horrifying pictures live in our living rooms, and then over and over again in replay? Or could it be that we were just scared spitless.

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