Speaking of New Yorkers in General, I Wonder how Much of the same "Spiritedness" the Drill would have had, -If Madrid had *Not* just recently Happened a Little Before!? Would there have been More "Oh Well!,-Another Drill !,....", Sort of "So So"-edness"?!

Madrid is also Not the First "Next Thing" following 9-11. The Recent Air France Flights were such, and even they may Not have been the First! The Shoe Bomber is just One which Comes to Mind. And Oh Yes, the Anthrax sort of Terrorism.

On at least One of those recent Air France cancellations / postponements, At least one Scheduled Passenger did Not Show Up! I know there are sometimes No Shows for a Flight in any event. But This One(s) Aroused Suspicions. Spooked from Boarding by our Security and Suspicions.

Otherwise, This or the Other Recent Cancelled Flights could Have Been a Second 9-11 Effort.

How Many Other such Things may we have Successfully Prevented and Thwarted?! It was Said Up Front, that Not every Battle would be in the Public Eye. Where we Have Foiled Things so, This is a Measure of our Success. (Silent Success)

We've Got to Be as Alertly and Ardently *Into* This!, -Thru All the Most Boring and Humdrum Moments of the "Game"!, -were we to so compare it to a Game. NOT Only when we *See* a Big, Critical Play at Hand! And Not Only when we're within the 10 Yard Line! Not Only within or Near the End of the 4th Quarter!

We're in This For the Duration! This *Doesn't* Mean "We've had Enuf of this Today!", or "This is No Longer Comfortable!"

As with WW -2, We're Only Now at the Seigfried / "Phony" War Stages! This Only Equates to Dec *8*, 1941! -NOT a V-E or V-J Day! We're Still in 41-42 Phillipines!, -*Not* Aboard the USS. Missourri in Tokyo Harbor!, to Receive our Modern Day Terrorist Surrender!

I Ain't Yet Heard Anything about our War on Terrorism, our Fight for our Very Survival!, -Being Over Yet!!!

And so my Flag Remains Up, in my Window, as it Has on Every Day, since Sept. 11th. Unlike so Many Others. Could you Picture Osama & Co. Now!, saying "You Can't Even Keep your Flags Up!, -Never Forget!, -Don't Make Make us Laugh!" And at least here, -They would be somewhat Right! We Hand them That!

Anybody could be a Sunshine Patriot Back Then! But we are to be Rain Ones too!

(Now on Normalcy, I've Returned to a general Normalcy also! And Do Not Live Every Moment in Sept. 11th. I've Felt More of a Need for a Substantial Return to Normalcy, in those Immeadiate Post 9-11 Weeks and Months, than Many! So it's Not an Ignoreance of "Due Normalcy" on my Part. "Back to Normalcy". As Normally as it can Duly be! Which Isn't totally "Back to the Way it Was!" I Do and Have Done Such!)

But if we've had somewhat Too Much Day In, Day Out, Thinking and "Remembering" Back Then!, -We've Got somewhat Too Little of It Since and Now! Somewhat Too Much Forgetting / "Oh Welling" / and "So-So"ing! And somewhat Too Little Remembering and Being "Ever On the Alert!"

We're a Long Way yet from the 4th Quarter! So We've of course *Gotta* Keep the Same Sort of "Immeadiate Aftermath" Resolve Up!, -Now and to Come! As at Any Time Immeadiately Following Sept. 11th.

(Very Quickly and Briefly, -The Three "We Must Do's!" -National Security and Defense, the General Moral Act, and the General Economic Act!) ("Love One Another!" and Sci-Tech, Can be Added to That!)

Americans have Got a Notoriously Short Memory! This is One of the Greatest Things that our Long Range Thinking Enemies, Have Got *Going* for them! One of America's Main Problems, -is that It is Always Unduly / Overly Wanting to Go Home! Pretty Babyish of U.S.!, for One Thing!

9-11 is Never to Become "So Last Week / Month / or Year!"

Suggestion!, my Fellow Americans. -Be somewhat Into *This*!, as say you may be Into Britney! That Same Steady, Strong, No Bones, Attention and Dedication!

We're Nowhere yet Near that Fourth Quarter!, -Let Alone At, Near, or Within Sight Of!, it's End!

Question;- Is the U.S. in any Measure Entertaining any Notion of V-E or V-J!, -Here in our Modern Day Dec 41 and Jan 42 of our Very Start! -Sheesh! -If we Are!

Our Modern Day Afghan "Guadalcanal" Achievement!, is Yet a *Long* Way Off!, from our Present Day Tokyo Goals! As Poet Robert Frost so Well Put It, -"Miles to Go Before we Sleep!" We are In This For the Duration.

So with Samesuch Occurrances such as Madrid or No!, We're to Remain On Guard and Into This! As at any Other "Sweet" or "Visibly Pressing", Moments of the Task!

With This Thread, and our Other Thread on How Few New Yorkers, Let Alone Anyone Else!, are Really Prepared! -I'm Wondering how this Recent Drill would have been Largely Viewed and Received!, Had we just NOT Had our Recent Madrid Reminder, -to Again Spur U.S. On!

(This is How my Observation and Urgeing here is Relevant to Preparedness.) [color:"black"] [/color] [email]etehiver[/email]