Our neighbors in Oklahoma City were ushered violently into a world the rest of us would not come to know until 2001. Do you remember that day? Do you remember not being able to understand? How? Why?
I remember the people's faces, I remember looking at the building and my eyes growing wide in shock and disbelief.
What a long 10 years it has been. Now, every American can imagine bombs in buildings. We may be a country divided on a whole host of issues, but today I am reminded that we are all of the same heart. The American heart, one that can bring us together and heal us and fight for us, and like the dysfunctional family we are, make us madder than anything else.
Like all family, we come together in a crisis.
Today, the message I'd like our leaders to send out to us is the message that instead of working towards selfish political goals, take a second...and think. Remember, we're all in this together.
Ok. Sentimentality break is over. My pill is wearing off so back to bitchy in twenty minutes.
And this is the week that Time Magazine decided to honor Ann Coulter with a cover shot and lovefest article, she of the opinion:
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
When later asked about her endorsement of killing people with a big bomb, "Do you stand by those quotes or do you think that perhaps you should have phrased them differently?" she said:
"Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'" Which of course still is directly endorsing killing people with big bombs.
http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/anncoulter.php
Thanks, Time Magazine, for further besmirching the memory of innocents killed by nutcases.
Polly Anna