NP? God bless Afghanistan

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Sun Nov 11 17:53:25 CST 2001


In a message dated 11/11/1 11:41:36 PM, you wrote:

The Millison:

<<the thing that sometimes bothers me about these displays of national 
sentimentality is that they don't seem to take into account -- don't publicly 
acknowledge at least -- the people who suffer at the other end of the missile 
trajectory rainbow, on the receiving end of the ordnance; in our church, we 
believe that God loves everybody, not only Americans.>>

There are some 5000+ American dead.  The singing of God Bless America, in 
this instance, is not national sentimentality; it is grief voiced as hope.

And your stupid song doesn't scan.






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