Some Further Thoughts on your Thoughts,-

First of all, -a certain Getting "Back to Normalcy", (to quote President Harding), -is and has been Due, Called For, Right, Proper, Advisable, and Neccessary!

In *some* Respects, -We've *Overdone* it in those Immeadiate Post September 11th Moments / Minutes / Hours / Days / Weeks / Months / and as you say, Year or Two.

And then proceeded to Way *Underdo* it in that Following One to Six Years!

The latter doubtless had some of the former, -as a Causeative Factor!

But we Just *Can't* Afford to Forget, -and go on Back to Sleep!

We *Don't Have*!, -the Luxury of Growing Weary or Tired!

Want to Get Zonked Again!, -but this Time, -Know to our Inavoidable Shame!, -that we had Dropped the Ball! And *Weren't* Running with it!?

I know you've Experienced it, Largely Remember it, Respect it, and Such. As you've said.

But by what you also say, -You also Substantially, -and by your own Admission even Willingly, (as I See and Read it), -Forget!

You spoke of Endless Wallowers and Wallowing. I Reply that many a Forgetter out there, -is a Far Cry from "Endless Wallowing in it"!

A Few Musts and Dos, -that we suppossedly Finally Learned!, -and Swore that we would "Never Forget!".

National Security and Defense! / All Round Morals / A Sound Economy / Re-View the September 11th Films (as We Did Before) / Rebuild the Towers just as Before! And in the Same Spots! Only Difference being maybe even Higher! / Build the 1776 Foot Freedom Tower Memorial nearby, -albeit of a Different, Right On Design! / Additionally, -Those simple Blue Light Pillar Memorials that we Had Up for awhile were Perfectly Fine! / RE-Do the Flight 93 Memorial Plans! To Eliminate the Hidden Elements therein that we're hearing about, -that Honor the *Skyjackers* and their View and "Vision"!, -of All Things and People! / *Keep* our Flags Up! As Thoroughly and as Commonly as in those Immeadiate Post 9-11 Days, Weeks, and Months! *Get* Em Back Up! Pretend someone like Bull Halsey or Hyman Rickover is Telling you to Do So! / The TSA and such should Quit Searching Grandmothers! / Yes to things like Patriot Act, Gitmo, Profiling, NSA, and Dare I say it, -even Iraq! Resounding and Ringing Yeses! / No to things like their Opposites! / There's Bookstores out there! Most have a TV, Radio, or Net! Read Books, Papers, and Magazines on it! Turn on your Dial and Knob, -and Watch and Listen to things Bearing on this! Get and Watch Videos. Search the Net! Make it your Business as a Citizen to Be Informed and Know! Do it Eagerly! (Like Brazilians say with Soccer)! Soak it all up like a Sponge! / Be Prepared!, -there on your Own little Home Front! / Talk about such things!, -with your Fellow Everyday Americans, -like you might talk about the Latest Movie or Movie Star or something! / How bout if we even Name our Next Aircraft Carrier the "September 11th"?! Not building Carriers anymore? Then Dang Build them! / And Others / And Others / And Other Such...

Spirit and Point of it All is to Act and Be like We're Really Into it!!! To Cheer and All Else like an All Out Steeler Fan who's Really Into it! (To Apply and Quote something from my own Home Neck of the Woods here! Of which I also think the Larger Nation as a Whole, -is Amply Familiar with!). *Not* like some Dude who Wearily says, -"Dah!?, -Do I have to Cheer now?" To Bip out a Weak Feeble Little Obligatory Rah Rah Rah!

Return to All Due Normalcy Yes! But *Not* a Return to September *10th*!

We *Can't* Afford to Grow Weak, Weary, Tired, Soft, Feeble, and Faint!

Shame on any of Us / U.S. -who do!

I think that all of our 2007 Selves, -should go Walk into a Room, -and Meet our Late 2001 Selves!

I think that by such, -We will be Astonishingly Shocked!, -by the State of our Latter Selve's Flagging and Forgetting!

Yes, -our 2001 Selves would get some Good Advice on not Overdoing a thing every here and there!

But Far More Imperatively and Importantly, -Our 2007 Selves would get quite a Heaping Helpful Advice! in the Opposite and *Other* Direction!

"The September 10TH Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep! But We've Got Promises to Remember and Keep! And Years and Miles to Go!, -*Before* we again Sleep!" (Hey!, -Better Yet, -Lets then STAY Woken Up! -And NOT again Return to Sleep!).

So We've Got to *Stay* Fully INTO this Thing!, -Till that Last Enemy Dog of our's out there, -Dies!...


Edited by ScottRezaLogan (10/12/07 11:45 PM)
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"No Substitute for Victory!"and"You Can't be a Beacon if your Light Don't Shine!"-Gen. Douglass MacArthur and Donna Fargo.