To: arno who wrote (6770 ) 9/14/2001 9:32:37 AM From: Doppler Read Replies (4) | Respond to Many of you say that America will never be the same after this horrific attack. Others say we will go on the same as before. Who is right? That's easy to answer. Both are. If there is one thing that is a certainty in life, it is that change is inevitable. Another indisputable fact is that America will go on. History tells us that. And, we will go on even stronger than before. This is an act of War. An act of unspeakable evil upon our society. We have had other such events before, and every time America came back stronger than ever. Some of the more apparent examples include the Civil War, the two World Wars, Vietnam, and numerous assassinations. Whether this current episode progresses to the level of suffering from those events is undetermined at this point. What we can say however is that we will go on and we will triumph. So those who say that we won't be changed, and won't be defeated by evil are correct. But, life is about change. America wasn't the same country after natural disasters that claimed more lives than we have lost this week. It sure wasn't the same after life changing events like major wars or assassinations. The foundations of our country are the basic building blocks of life. Humans want freedom. America and it's democracy gives them that basic need. Terror and oppression don't. The Berlin Wall fell because good does triumph over evil. Russia is now free because there is no stopping the push toward a basic human need like freedom. Without change the human condition would never get better. But it does. We take a situation and adapt. We become stronger. We mourn the victims, and especially their families. We pray for them and give them support to go on with their lives. We come together as a country. We treat each other with more kindness. We show more compassion. From the President to the masses we have been affected. We have changed, but we can, and will, change for the better.
