tp187.xml
Title
tp187.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-03-03
TomPaine Story: Story
All tragedies come from the clearest of skies. This enhances the sense of horror, desolation, shock, and numbness that assails the human soul. ' How can it be?' we ask, that a day that began so hope-filled and sun-lit could end as one of the darkest moments in history? So it is with 9-11.
How do we reconcile ourselves to this shock, grief, and anger? How do we pay homage to those who died? Do we acknowledge our feelings of newly formed fear by changing our countries whole way of life in hopes we may avert such future events?
It is my belief that the wisest way to show respect for and honor those who died is with quiet dignity: To respect their memory by respecting the values they lived by. These were Americans, from all strata of American life. I believe they would want us to use their senseless deaths to preserve and maintain the dignity and freedom, the values and founding premises of the country they loved.
It is to dishonor them to bring into America slander between our parties, unending war on other nations, and increasing tyranny on our own people in the name of terror.
I believe they would say their deaths were NOT in vain: That despite the cunning way lives were taken, our country will remain United and Strong; based and grounded in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That we, the country they loved, WILL remain a free Nation, not given to fear and oppression, but to fearlessness, and positive expectations.
How to be a perfect Union? We must stay our course, bind our wounds, and go forth into the future with bravery, not bravado.
How do we reconcile ourselves to this shock, grief, and anger? How do we pay homage to those who died? Do we acknowledge our feelings of newly formed fear by changing our countries whole way of life in hopes we may avert such future events?
It is my belief that the wisest way to show respect for and honor those who died is with quiet dignity: To respect their memory by respecting the values they lived by. These were Americans, from all strata of American life. I believe they would want us to use their senseless deaths to preserve and maintain the dignity and freedom, the values and founding premises of the country they loved.
It is to dishonor them to bring into America slander between our parties, unending war on other nations, and increasing tyranny on our own people in the name of terror.
I believe they would say their deaths were NOT in vain: That despite the cunning way lives were taken, our country will remain United and Strong; based and grounded in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That we, the country they loved, WILL remain a free Nation, not given to fear and oppression, but to fearlessness, and positive expectations.
How to be a perfect Union? We must stay our course, bind our wounds, and go forth into the future with bravery, not bravado.
Collection
Citation
“tp187.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 7, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/669.