On Unity
So in the last week, President Bush has called on Americans to use the five-year anniversary of September 11th as a chance to recall the unity that we felt in its aftermath.
It was a pretty amazing unity. We were certainly bonded together by fear but also by a kind of hopefulness.
It was a hopefulness from the experience of the amazing strength that we have when we decide to help each other.
That unity was not about the government.
It was a shared determination among us to make things better.
The President seems to think that "unity" implies supporting him and his policies.
In my personal opinion, the President has no right to attach himself to that part of our experience.
He already had his shot.
While every other aspect of 9/11 is defiled this Monday, let us at least keep intact the memory of what that unity meant to us.
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