It's Okay Not To Be Afraid

Submitted by Arlinda DeAngelis (United States), Feb 18, 2008 at 20:29

Dear Larry, I was once a politically correct liberal who believed in nothing ... not God, not country. Multicultralism and tolerance for everything was the guiding light. On September 11th that changed as I watched my countrymen die by the thousands for nothing but the hatred of a few tolerated by the many. We became a target in some insane religious war. They loved our suffering, our death and our destruction. Where does does one turn on a day of such slaughter and destruction.

I will never ever be afraid again. We Americans cannot live in fear. It's a slow undignified death and that's not our way. You're a Marine and you know what I mean. I gave up political correctness and atheism. I am now one of the faithful and they over there in deserts with their religious shrouds can take their Jihad, their Allah and that ...Mohammed and the Koran and ...

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