To Darcy

From: K Nygren (ifirgit@yahoo.com)
Mon Mar 17 18:54:00 2003


Darcy, I am only too happy to pray for your son, who along with my niece's husband is in the mideast. I pray that no America dies, but if need be, that those deaths are not in vain. Thank you for your prayers as well. I think a lot of the fight I have in my life can be attributed to the fight I learned when I served this country. No, I did not go to war....although the first day I was on duty in Germany I thought it was WWIII happening when the tanks drove down the streets. Our unit was placed on high alert during the Iran hostage crisis. I was ready to go, despite the fact that it meant my husband and I leaving our child behind. At that time one of us could have been allowed to stay behind, but as you have seen with other servicemen and women, we both decided that we had chosen the life of service to our country and that is what we would do. It was never a question in our mind. I am a stronger woman for my military service. This strength has pulled me through so much and I can thank my country for that....if for nothing else....which by the way, I have plenty else to be thankful for. I will be updating my story within the next couple of days. I have become aware that I haven't kept it very current over the last couple of years and so much more needs to be shared. Love to all, Karla Darcy <jonesy@vci.net> wrote:Hi, I'm one of the "silent" ones in this group, but I just had to say thank you for your stand for our country. You see, my son is over there. He is in the US Army and will be 21 yrs. old next month. When I hear of the protesters, I wonder if they realize, that it is people like my son who has made sure and continues to make sure that they continue to have that right to protest, and make stupid remarks about our leaders. Just wanted to weigh in and also to thank you. Please keep my son, as well as ALL involved in your prayers. Thank you and God bless, Darcy

PS. Karla, my family and I have prayed for you. I have watched your story unfold, and you truly are a miracle!

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> 1) So shoot me!
> by K Nygren
> 2) Re: So shoot me!
> by "Carolyn J Meadows"

> 3) Re: So shoot me!
> by Pgrywlf@aol.com
> 4) Re: So shoot me!
> by "Carolyn J Meadows"

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> You all know me. I got this today after I heard what Natalie of the Dixie
Chicks had said about George W. While I know that we all have very different opinions and that this country allows us the right to free speech....the whole thing really angered me. I volunteered to serve my country for three years when I was 21. I would have given my life if I had been asked, and in many ways I have as it was surgery done by the military doctors that caused my first adhesions. I would still sacrifice my life today for the freedoms that this country gives. >
> Today I choose to exercise some of my rights as an American. Miss Natalie
had stated that she and the state of Texas was embarassed to have George W. as a Texan. >
> "Maines reportedly told a London audience last week, in reference to
Bush's push for military action against Iraq, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Well Miss Maines, this American is ashamed to have you as a citizen of this country. I used to love the Dixie Chicks music, but I will not listen to another of their c.d.'s. One more of those rights I am using today. Thank God for America! >
> Okay, so you all probably think maybe I am going just a bit overboard, but
the below email I received is what got me going. No, I am not war hungry. Yes, I care about the innocent children. But, I ask this.....Did they stop to think about all the innocent children...yet alone, the innocent victims of 9/11? Many say that there is no proof that Iraq was behind 9/11. I, myself, have no doubts, but when I saw the people celebrating in the streets on 9/11/2001 after so many innocent lives were killed, I lost a lot of that innocence and trust that filled me. It will happen again. It may not be 9/11, but will it be 7/29 or 10/28? We need to do something to stop this! >
> Finally, the letter I received:
>
> BRITISH EDITORIAL
>
> No matter what your views on Bush this, from an English journalist, is
very > interesting.
>
> For those of you not familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror, this is a
> notoriously left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of the
> Colonials
> across the Atlantic.
>
> Tony Parsons Daily Mirror
>
> One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the
mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless > cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there, with Pol Pot's
> mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like
garbage > in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so
> calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on
one thing- nobody deserves this fate. Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil. >
> But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's
> comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last
> year.
> There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country
too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me. >
> More than that, it turns my stomach.
>
> America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are
> bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a
> century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as
well > as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago,
> thousands of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but
> from
> dozens of countries - were butchered by a small group of religious
> fanatics.
>
> Are we so quick to betray them?
>
> What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the
> planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
> son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives, and children, some
unborn. >
> And these people brought it on themselves?
>
> And their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?
>
> These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
> Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
> anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the
> Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering
> from
> power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes
> without having to ask permission.
>
> The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
> September 11.
>
> Remember, remember. Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men
> phoning
> their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.
>
> Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning
> skyscrapers.
>
> Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.
>
> Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of
> the planes with her mum.
>
> Remember, remember - and realize that America has never retaliated for
> 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So a few al-Qaeda tourists
> got
> locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex...
>
> So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired
> their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but
maybe > next time they should stick to confetti.
>
> AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.
>
> That it didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being
> raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for.
>
> How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the
> slaughtered innocents of 9/11?
>
> How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of
> 9/11 was an abomination?
>
> When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
> Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that and
> didn't push the button.
>
> We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the
> world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war.
> Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.
>
> The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell," if
> America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell
> like you wouldn't believe.
>
> The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of
> the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect
and > the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.
>
> But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched
> countries.
>
> How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world?
>
> You can count them on the fingers of one hand assuming you haven't had any
> chopped off for minor shoplifting.
>
> I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's
poodle. >
> But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.
>
> Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be -
> rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or
> religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country
> ever had and we should start remembering that.
>
> Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the
> loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning
> towers.
>
> Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked
> planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to
> the
> hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire
> Department.
>
> To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.
>
> Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people
and > set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street.
>
> Remember, remember, September 11.
>
> One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against
> America.
>
> No, do more than remember.
>
> Never forget.
>
> God Bless you all!
>
> Karla
>
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>
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You all know me. I got this today after I heard what Natalie of the Dixie Chicks had said about George W. While I know that we all have very different opinions and that this country allows us the right to free speech....the whole thing really angered me. I volunteered to serve my country for three years when I was 21. I would have given my life if I had been asked, and in many ways I have as it was surgery done by the military doctors that caused my first adhesions. I would still sacrifice my life today for the freedoms that this country gives.

>

Today I choose to exercise some of my rights as an American. Miss Natalie had stated that she and the state of Texas was embarassed to have George W. as a Texan.

>
"Maines reportedly told a London audience last week, in reference to Bush's push for military action against Iraq, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Well Miss Maines, this American is ashamed to have you as a citizen of this country. I used to love the Dixie Chicks music, but I will not listen to another of their c.d.'s. One more of those rights I am using today. Thank God for America!

>

Okay, so you all probably think maybe I am going just a bit overboard, but the below email I received is what got me going. No, I am not war hungry. Yes, I care about the innocent children. But, I ask this.....Did they stop to think about all the innocent children...yet alone, the innocent victims of 9/11? Many say that there is no proof that Iraq was behind 9/11. I, myself, have no doubts, but when I saw the people celebrating in the streets on 9/11/2001 after so many innocent lives were killed, I lost a lot of that innocence and trust that filled me. It will happen again. It may not be 9/11, but will it be 7/29 or 10/28? We need to do something to stop this!

>

Finally, the letter I received:

>

BRITISH EDITORIAL

No matter what your views on Bush this, from an English journalist, is very interesting.

For those of you not familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror, this is a notoriously left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of the Colonials across the Atlantic.

Tony Parsons Daily Mirror

One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there, with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps. An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing- nobody deserves this fate. Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil.

But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increas! > ingly seen as America's

comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year. There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to me.

More than that, it turns my stomach.

America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of countries - were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics.

Are we so quick to betray them?

What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the planes w! > as that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives, and children, some unborn.

And these people brought it on themselves?

And their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?

These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes without having to ask permission.

The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.

Remember, remember. Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive.

Remember those people leaping to their! > deaths from the top of burning

skyscrapers.

Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive.

Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum.

Remember, remember - and realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have. So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex...

So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.

AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.

That it didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for.

How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11! > ?

How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination?

When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that and didn't push the button.

We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A real war.

The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell," if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.

But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wret! > ched

countries.

How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world?

You can count them on the fingers of one hand assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.

I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle.

But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.

Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start remembering that.

Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning towers.

Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skysc! > raper. And tell it to

the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department.

To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.

Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street.

Remember, remember, September 11.

One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America.

No, do more than remember.

Never forget.

>

God Bless you all!

Sans MS">Karla

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> I too am ashamed of the immature Dixie Chicks and will never watch > another of their shows.
> Why don't all of these America haters live in another county....like
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<P>Darcy, <P>I am only too happy to pray for your son, who along with my niece's husband is in the mideast.&nbsp; I pray that no America dies, but if need be, that those deaths are not in vain.&nbsp; <P>Thank you for your prayers as well.&nbsp; I think a lot of the fight I have in my life can be attributed to the fight I learned when I served this country.&nbsp; No, I did not go to war....although the first day I was on duty in Germany I thought it was WWIII happening when the tanks drove down the streets.&nbsp; Our unit was&nbsp;placed on high alert&nbsp;during the Iran hostage crisis.&nbsp; I was ready to go, despite the fact that it meant my husband and I leaving our child behind.&nbsp; At that time one of us could have been allowed to stay behind, but as you have seen with other servicemen and women, we both decided that we had chosen the life of service to our country and that is what we would do.&nbsp; It was never a question in our mind.&nbsp; I am a stronger woman for my military service.&nbsp; This strength has pulled me through so much and I can thank my country for that....if for nothing else....which by the way, I have plenty else to be thankful for. <P>I will be updating my story within the next couple of days.&nbsp; I have become aware that I haven't kept it very current over the last couple of years and so much more needs to be shared. <P>Love to all, <P>Karla <P>&nbsp;<B><I>Darcy &lt;jonesy@vci.net&gt;</I></B> wrote: <P>You all know me.&nbsp; I got this today after I heard what Natalie of<BR>the Dixie Chicks had said about George W.&nbsp; While I know that we all<BR>have very different opinions and that this country allows us the right to<BR>free speech....the whole thing really angered me.&nbsp; I volunteered to<BR>serve my country for three years when I was 21.&nbsp; I would have given my<BR>life if I had been asked, and in many ways I have as it was surgery done by<BR>the military doctors that caused my first adhesions.&nbsp; I would still<BR>sacrifice my life today for the freedoms that this country gives.&nbsp; </P><BR>&gt; <P>Today I choose to exercise some of my rights as an American.&nbsp; Miss<BR>Natalie had stated that she and the state of Texas was embarassed to have<BR>George W. as a Texan.&nbsp; </P><BR>&gt; <P>"Maines reportedly told a London audience last week, in reference to<BR>Bush's push for military action against Iraq, "Just so you know, we're<BR>ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Well Miss Maines,<BR>this American is ashamed to have you as a citizen of this country.&nbsp; I<BR>used to love the Dixie Chicks music, but I will not listen to another of<BR>their c.d.'s.&nbsp; One more of those rights I am using today.&nbsp; Thank<BR>God for America!&nbsp; </P><BR>&gt; <P>Okay, so you all probably think maybe I am going just a bit overboard,<BR>but the below email I received is what got me going.&nbsp; No, I am not war<BR>hungry.&nbsp; Yes, I care about the innocent children.&nbsp; But, I ask<BR>this.....Did they stop to think about all the innocent children...yet alone,<BR>the innocent victims of 9/11?&nbsp; Many say that there is no proof that<BR>Iraq was behind 9/11.&nbsp; I, myself, have no doubts, but when I saw the<BR>people celebrating in the streets on 9/11/2001 after so many innocent lives<BR>were killed, I lost a lot of that innocence and trust that filled me.&nbsp;<BR>It will happen again.&nbsp; It may not be 9/11, but will it be 7/29 or<BR>10/28?&nbsp; We need to do something to stop this!</P><BR>&gt; <P>Finally, the letter I received:</P><BR>&gt; <P>BRITISH EDITORIAL<BR><BR>No matter what your views on Bush this, from<BR>an English journalist, is very<BR>interesting.<BR><BR>For those of you not<BR>familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror, this is a<BR>notoriously left-wing<BR>daily that is normally not supportive of the<BR>Colonials<BR>across the<BR>Atlantic.<BR><BR>Tony Parsons Daily Mirror<BR><BR>One year ago, the world<BR>witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting -- the mass murder of thousands,<BR>live on television.&nbsp; As a lesson in the pitiless<BR>cruelty of the<BR>human race, September 11 was up there, with Pol Pot's<BR>mountain of skulls<BR>in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage<BR>in the Nazi<BR>concentration camps.&nbsp; An unspeakable act so cruel, so<BR>calculated and<BR>so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing- nobody<BR>deserves this fate.&nbsp; Surely there could be consensus: the victims were<BR>truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil.<BR><BR>But to the world's<BR>eternal shame, 9/11 is increas!<BR>&gt; ingly seen as America's<BR>comeuppance.&nbsp; Incredibly, anti-Americanism<BR>has increased over the last<BR>year.<BR>There has always been a simmering<BR>resentment to the USA in this country too loud, too rich, too full of<BR>themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an<BR>epidemic. And it seems incredible to me.<BR><BR>More than that, it turns my<BR>stomach.<BR><BR>America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest<BR>ally. We are<BR>bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little<BR>over half a<BR>century ago, around half a million Americans died for our<BR>freedoms, as well<BR>as their own.&nbsp; Have we forgotten so soon?&nbsp;<BR>And exactly a year&nbsp; ago,<BR>thousands of ordinary men, women and<BR>children - not just Americans, but<BR>from<BR>dozens of countries - were<BR>butchered by a small group of religious<BR>fanatics.<BR><BR>Are we so quick<BR>to betray them?<BR><BR>What touched the hear t about those who died in the<BR>twin towers and on the<BR>planes w!<BR>&gt; as that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's<BR>son<BR>and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives, and children, some<BR>unborn.<BR><BR>And these people brought it on themselves?<BR><BR>And their<BR>nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?<BR><BR>These<BR>days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or<BR>Karachi<BR>or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The<BR>anti-American<BR>alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the<BR>Americans for<BR>every ill in the Third World, and conservatives<BR>suffering<BR>from<BR>power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can<BR>do what it likes<BR>without having to ask permission.<BR><BR>The truth is<BR>that America has behaved with enormous restraint since<BR>September<BR>11.<BR><BR>Remember, remember.&nbsp; Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of<BR>weeping men<BR>phoning<BR>their wives to say, "I love you," before they were<BR>burned alive.<BR><BR>Remember those people leaping to their!<BR>&gt; deaths from the top of burning<BR>skyscrapers.<BR><BR>Remember the<BR>hundreds of firemen buried alive.<BR><BR>Remember the smiling face of that<BR>beautiful little girl who was on one of<BR>the planes with her<BR>mum.<BR><BR>Remember, remember - and realize that America has never<BR>retaliated for<BR>9/11 in anything like the way it could have.&nbsp; So a<BR>few al-Qaeda tourists<BR>got<BR>locked without a trial in Camp X-ray?&nbsp;<BR>Pass the Kleenex...<BR><BR>So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up<BR>after they merrily fired<BR>their semi-automatics in a sky full of American<BR>planes?&nbsp; A shame, but maybe<BR>next time they should stick to<BR>confetti.<BR><BR>AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a<BR>parking lot.<BR><BR>That it didn't is a sign of strength.&nbsp; American<BR>voices are already being<BR>raised against attacking Iraq - t hat's what a<BR>democracy is for.<BR><BR>How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's<BR>silence for the<BR>slaughtered innocents of 9/11!<BR>&gt; ?<BR><BR>How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass<BR>murder of<BR>9/11 was an abomination?<BR><BR>When the news of 9/11 broke on<BR>the West Bank, those freedom-loving<BR>Palestinians were dancing in the<BR>street.&nbsp; America watched all of that and<BR>didn't push the<BR>button.<BR><BR>We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful<BR>nation in the<BR>world.&nbsp; I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not<BR>provoke all-out war.<BR>Not a "war on terrorism."&nbsp; A real<BR>war.<BR><BR>The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of<BR>hell," if<BR>America attacks Iraq.&nbsp; Well, America could have opened the<BR>gates of hell<BR>like you wouldn't believe.<BR><BR>The US is the most<BR>militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of<BR>the earth.&nbsp;<BR>The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and<BR>the<BR>planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.<BR><BR>But don't blame America for<BR>not bringing peace and light to these wret!<BR>&gt; ched<BR>countries.<BR><BR>How many democracies are there in the Middle<BR>East, or in the Muslim world?<BR><BR><BR>You can count them on the fingers<BR>of one hand assuming you haven't had any<BR>chopped off for minor<BR>shoplifting.<BR><BR>I love America, yet America is hated.&nbsp; I guess that<BR>makes me Bush's poodle.<BR><BR>But I would rather be a dog in New York City<BR>than a Prince in Riyadh.<BR><BR>Above all, America is hated because it is<BR>what every country wants to be -<BR>rich, free, strong, open, optimistic.<BR>Not ground down by the past, or<BR>religion, or some caste system.&nbsp;<BR>America is the best friend this country<BR>ever had and we should start<BR>remembering that.<BR><BR>Or do you really think the USA is the root of all<BR>evil?&nbsp; Tell it to the<BR>loved ones of t he men and women who leaped to<BR>their death from the burning<BR>towers.<BR><BR>Tell it to the nursing<BR>mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked<BR>planes, or were ripped<BR>apart in a collapsing&nbsp; skysc!<BR>&gt; raper. And tell it to<BR>the<BR>hundreds of young widows whose husbands<BR>worked for the New York Fire<BR>Department.<BR><BR>To our shame, George Bush<BR>gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.<BR><BR>Once we were told that Saddam<BR>gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and<BR>set up rape-camps in<BR>Kuwait.&nbsp; Now we are told he likes Quality Street.<BR><BR>Remember,<BR>remember, September 11.<BR><BR>One of the greatest atrocities in human<BR>history was committed against<BR>America.<BR><BR><BR>No, do more than<BR>remember.<BR><BR>Never forget.<BR></P><BR>&gt; <P>God Bless you all!</P><BR><BR><FONT color=#6000bf><FONT face="Comic<br>Sans MS">Karla <BR><BR><IMG<BR>src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/h.gif"&gt;**Soaring with<BR>my angel**</FONT> <IMG<BR>src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/h.gif"&gt;<BR><BR>www.ge<BR>ocities.com/karlasfamily2001<BR><BR>www.geocities.com/princessd82000/BraydensHaven</FONT>


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