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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (114296)	9/9/2003 8:23:10 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Indifference is a mischaracterization, imo, and one reason I personally dislike using the word stoicism- since that has become part of the modern meaning. Friedman wrote in a column very soon after 9-11 that while our hearts may be breaking, we must never let it look as if our spirits are. He advocated getting right back on the planes, into crowds, going about our daily lives. Certainly lives have changed, some much more drastically than others. But what I felt X was advocating was that we don't allow the nature of the way we live as a nation to change. Sort of like Seuss's Whoville at Christmas; we still celebrate what we have because it is those values, those freedoms, those characteristics that define what we are, not loss, not fear. We grieve, but we rebuild; we are careful, but we continue; we don't allow them to think that we are changed in that deep way they would savor. We are never indifferent, but we aren't going to whine and grovel with fear because of what they did. That would be why I would refrain from too much handwringing about how they have changed our world. Because most of us aren't letting it be changed in the ways that matter.