The Ground Zero Swimming Pool
As the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the United States comes to a close, and a small group of lunatics gather to protest a mosque (that's not a mosque) at Ground Zero (though it's not to be built at Ground Zero), I hope going forward we as a people can do a better job of upholding the ideals that our country was founded upon. Our country may be divided right now, but it was never more so than at the beginning of the Civil War, and in his first inaugural address, Honest Abe had a message that should be remembered not just for Americans, but for all the world:I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
posted by FuzzFinger @ 9/11/2010 05:07:00 PM
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