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Its always said that people unite when there's a common enemy..
I believe that this time, people unite because there's a common desire and love for the next man(or woman or course)
This time, people are united to aid their fellow Americans, knowing that it could have happened to anyone of them, and that these people are not soldiers, but civilians just like them.
I'm filled with pride when I see our brave firemen and police officers rushing up a burning building with no support and no regard for their own safety to "pull the wounded out"
I'm filled with a sad sense of joy when I see the numbers of firemen missing, because that means 270 more heroes, 270 who risked their lives and put the lives of others before their own, and victims in the building who stopped to aid others, and the ordinary people in the doomed flights, who in a time of great stress, rose to the occasion and gave their lives for their nation, and the other normal, ordinary people of the USA.
To me right now, however, there is no "normal, ordinary" citizen of the USA. There are only heroes, everyone in their own way. It takes courage to weep for someone who can do you absolutely no good!
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Proud to be American
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