September 09, 2002
Dave Barry's 9/11 serious side
On hallowed ground
Dave Barry, who usually keeps us laughing with his column every Sunday, gets serious about the attacks on 9/11 and has written a beautifully moving piece about the hallowed ground in Shanksville, Pennsylvania where the Heroes' Flight 93 went down.
Citing it as the last resting place where brave Americans fought for Freedom and gave their lives doing so and placing Shanksville quite meaningfully beside that other piece of hallowed ground in Pennsylvania--Gettysburg-- Dave exhorts us all to SILENCE AND RESPECT as we pay homage to the dead of the First Militia in the War on [Islamofacist] Terrorism:
And we know that the people on the plane fought back. On a random day, on a random flight, they found themselves - unwarned, unprepared, unarmed - on the front lines of a vicious new kind of war. And somehow, in the few confusing and terrifying minutes they had, they transformed themselves from people on a plane into soldiers, and they fought back. And that made them heroes, immediately and forever, to a wounded, angry nation, a nation that desperately wanted to fight back.
And now these heroes lie here, in this field where their battle ended. This cemetery. This battlefield. This hallowed ground.
Dave, you are a poet and a patriot as well as a humorist.
Thank you.
[Link thanks to Instapundit]
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