Terror attacks hit U.S.

[Keefe]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In an apparently coordinated terrorist attack against the United States, four commercial passenger jets crashed on Tuesday, three of them into significant landmarks.  Read the full article here!

[wizbones]

I received this from one of my friends and peers and thought  it appropriate to share. Author unknown and where it originated I also do not know.

This is an open letter to the terrorists from an 18 year old:

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. We don't agree with each other in this
country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys and gals
that don't agree, called States. We are united in our individual states to
protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on
the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country.If you're
free enough.

Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an
unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling
free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too, because
people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight
like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when
England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn't turn out like England
thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like you think,
either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most
recent.

No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the
FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger.
Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used
it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used 'em both.
Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that
right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over
whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a
fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the
switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you
something about American resolve?

So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some
real state, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war
with random camps, in far-flung places... Who think they're safe. Just like
the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.

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. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his
prisons, are overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First
thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The
ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big PITA
then (especially in South Florida), but you're only the newest PITA, not
the first.

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.