How has Nine-Eleven changed YOU?

Ask yourself:

Has 9-11 changed my beliefs?

My actions?


My attitude?


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[ One old activist says:


"Nine-Eleven made me more patriotic.
I reclaimed the U.S. flag,
recalling how this gaudy cloth started out as a flag of revolution, liberty,
democracy, secularism, and the Bill of Rights;
how it became the Union flag in a war which freed the slaves;
how the bearers of this flag defeated totalitarianism.
I decided we must not cede this flag to the right-wingers;
for it belongs to all U.S. citizens --
left and right, good and evil, smart and honest and otherwise
-- ALL of us.


I reverted, in many ways, to the Vietnam era --
those long years when I protested war and occupation;
thinking "Here we go again....."


I became very frightened --
not so much afraid of the evil terrorists,
because I know that America can outlast terror campaigns --
just as England and Spain and Eireland and other nations have done,
just as we Californians outlast our earthquakes.
Mainly I fear the evil Bush regime,
which gladly exploits terror
as its convenient excuse to destroy
our U.S. Constitution,
especially our Bill of Rights.



I'm changing in many ways, good and bad;
and scrambling to learn new skills,
and realizing
that freedom-seekers never get to retire.
Never. ]

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