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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1821)10/8/2001 3:18:14 PM
From: Original Mad Dog   of 14610
 
But I also believe that if we sink to the mentality of indiscriminate killing that is being employed by OBL and the Taliban, that they will have won the war by killing the values that make the U.S. the great country that it is.

Last Thursday, as I drove to work, they played some excerpts on the radio from Wednesday night's episode of West Wing. I had missed it, am still trying to get my hands on a tape of it.

One of the excerpts they played (I am paraphrasing here, this is the gist of it from what I remember) was the story of someone who, as a child, had a neighbor who would come and play cards with his father. The neighbor was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. One day the neighbor told the story of something that happened in one of those camps. He had come upon one of the other prisoners who was kneeling down and praying. He asked the man what he was doing.

The man replied, "I am thanking God."

Looking at the evil all around them in the camp, the man asked, "What could you possibly have to thank God for?"

He responded, "I am thanking Him for not making me like them."

When this is over, my hope is that we too will still have that to be thankful for.
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