This is something I had to read for my
english class and I was very mved by the
last paragraph. The entire story is on
this website
http://www.Paulabrown.Net/wtc/personal_sto
ries/adam_mayblum.Htm but this is the
last paragrah (and if for some wierd
reason this offends you by me posting
this..... Get over it and just don't
reply!):
with regards to the firemen heading
upstairs, I realize that they were going
up anyway. But, it hurts to know that I
may have made them move quicker to find my
friend. Rationally, I know this is not
true and that I am not the responsible
one. The responsible ones are in hiding
somewhere on this planet and damn them for
making me feel like this. But they should
know that they failed in terrorizing us.
We were calm. Those men and women that
went up were heroes in the face of it all.
They must have known what was going on
and they did their jobs. Ordinary people
were heroes too. Today the images that
people around the world equate with power
and democracy are gone but "america" is
not an image it is a concept. That
concept is only strengthened by our
pulling together as a team. If you want
to kill us, leave us alone because we will
do it by ourselves. If you want to make
us stronger, attack and we unite. This is
the ultimate failure of terrorism against
the united states and the ultimate price
we pay to be free, to decide where we want
to work, what we want to eat, and when and
where we want to go on vacation. The very
moment the first plane was hijacked,
democracy won.
