Re: [pyrnet] CHAT: Fw: AN OPEN LETTER TO TERRORISTS

["Gordon Crump" <hermit@duo-county.com>]

Barb, thank you eternally for the post.Those are words that need to be
said and repeated. Thanks, again.

Hermit in the Woods


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Subject: [pyrnet] CHAT: Fw: AN OPEN LETTER TO TERRORISTS


> AN OPEN LETTER TO TERRORISTS
> by jwillis@bellatlantic.net (Jim Willis & Nicole
> Valentin-Willis/Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust)
>
> I don't know your name, or names - we may never know who you
> are - so I can't address you personally. Today, you killed
> several thousands of our  friends...perhaps not people who we
> knew personally, but people like us.
>
> People who worked hard to make a living, who loved someone, who
> were loved by someone, who worried about making a better life for
> their children and grandchildren, who believed in God and the
> American Dream, who criticized this country for its
> insufficiencies and cared enough to try and change things and
> ensure a better future, not just for us, but for the world.
> People who leave behind scores of loved ones, friends, pets,
> neighbors, coworkers, and members of their faiths. Perhaps even
> people who derived from your own country and who sought refuge
> here. Your act was a slaughter of the innocents.
>
> You are like an insidious cancer that strikes without warning,
> ravages bodies, tears families apart, and in the end can never
> destroy the soul.
>
> You are the ultimate coward.
>
> You may topple our buildings, collapse our communication systems,
> disrupt our government, crash our markets, and leave behind the
> carnage of bodies, but you will never destroy the soul of
> America. We made this country from the bits and pieces of the
> rest of the world; we took the best, the worst of every culture
> and nationality, race and creed, and made an alloy that may be
> dented, but not even a trial by fire can melt.
>
> I don't know what god you believe in, or what hateful rhetoric
> you espouse, or what your misguided political beliefs might be
> that allows you to do what you did today without a fear of
> eternal damnation. I only know that you may win a battle or two,
> but you will never win this war.
>
> We have the entire history of the world on our side, and no
> dictator, despot, or madman has survived as long as America has
> thrived and prospered. If you accomplished anything at all today,
> it was to give
> America a wake-up call, and we will now rise up stronger than
> before. You are defeated before you've even begun, there in your
> private hell and later in your eternal one. Someday your people
> may even need our
> help, and because we are America, we would respond.
>
> May God bless the friends we lost, their families, friends,
> neighbors and coworkers. We will help them rebuild from the
> ashes. May God continue to bless America, help her to protect us
> all, and may she
> continue to shine as a beacon of democracy and hope to the rest
> of the world.
>
> Copyright Jim Willis 2001
> In deepest sympathy to those who have lost a loved one.
> Permission to share.
>
>
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