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On Monday we e-mailed jokes.....On
Tuesday we did not.
On Monday we thought that we were secure....On Tuesday we
learned better.
On Monday we were talking about heroes as being athletes...
On Tuesday we relearned who our heroes are.
On Monday we were irritated that our rebate checks had not
arrived.
On Tuesday we gave money away to people we had never met.
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in
school....
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school
where someone was not praying.
On Monday people argued with their kids about picking up
their room....
On Tuesday the same people could not get home fast enough to
hug their kids.
On Monday people were upset that they had to wait 6 minutes
in a fast food line....
On Tuesday people didn't care about waiting up to 6 hours to
give blood to the dying.
On Monday we waved our flags signifying our cultural
diversity....
On Tuesday we waved only the American flag.
On Monday there were people trying to separate each other by
race, sex, color and creed.....
On Tuesday they were all
holding hands.
On Monday we were man or woman, black or white, old or
young, rich or poor, gay or straight,
Christian or
non-Christian.....On Tuesday we were ALL Americans.
On Monday politicians argued about budget surpluses.....
On Tuesday grief stricken they sang "God Bless America."
On Monday the President was going to Florida to read to
children....
On Tuesday he returned to Washington to protect our
children.
On Monday we had families....On Tuesday we had orphans.
On Monday people went to work as usual.....On Tuesday they
died.
On Monday people were fighting the 10 commandments on
government property....
On Tuesday the same people all said "God
help us all" while
thinking "Thou Shall Not Kill".
It is sadly ironic how it takes horrific events to place
things into perspective, but it has. The
lessons learned
this week, the things we have taken for granted, the things
that have been
forgotten or overlooked, hopefully will never
be forgotten again.
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