You missed America

[Guest guest]

YOU MISSED AMERICA - GOD BLESS US

At the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace this morning

the band played 'Star Spangled Banner'. This broke a tradition

that has run for centuries in this country. It was personally

authorized by the Queen of England. Word got around and by

the time it took place thousands of people mainly American were

at the gates of the Palace 10-20 deep. They all sang the

anthem many found it moving. It let the American people know

that they are not in this alone.

We are all with you America,

Regards from England,

An open letter to a terrorist:

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you

missed America.

You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used

helpless American bodies,

to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman,

you STILL missed America.

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand.

America isn't about a building or two, not about financial

centers, not about military centers, America isn't about

a place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies.

America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace

where you can earn as much as you can figure out how

to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living,

and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees

that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your

terrorist litany:

" If you can not see my point, then feel my pain. "

This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a

country where we don't have to see your point.

But you're free to have one.

We don't have to listen to your speech.

But you're free to say one.

Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone

has to agree with you.

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come

to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for

liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it.

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't

live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit

is what it's called.

And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of

us, won't change it.

Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind

of Spirit.

Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner,

then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.

Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming.