An open letter to the terrorists

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An open letter to terrorists
by jwillis@bellatlantic.net
(Jim Willis & Nicole Valentin-Willis/Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust)

I don't know your name, or names - we may never know who you are - so I
can't address you personally. Today, you killed several thousands of our
friends...perhaps not people who we knew personally, but people like us.

People who worked hard to make a living, who loved someone, who were
loved by someone, who worried about making a better life for their
children and grandchildren, who believed in God and the American Dream, who
criticized this country for its insufficiencies and cared enough to try and
change things and ensure a better future, not just for us, but for the
world. People who leave behind scores of loved ones, friends, pets,
neighbors, coworkers, and members of their faiths. Perhaps even people who
derived from your own country and who sought refuge here.

Your act was a slaughter of the innocents.

You are like an insidious cancer that strikes without warning, ravages
bodies, tears families apart, and in the end can never destroy the soul.

You are the ultimate coward.

You may topple our buildings, collapse our communication systems,
disrupt our government, crash our markets, and leave behind the carnage of
bodies, but you will never destroy the soul of America. We made this country
from the bits and pieces of the rest of the world; we took the best, the
worst of every culture and nationality, race and creed, and made an alloy
that may be dented, but not even a trial
by fire can melt.

I don't know what God you believe in, or what hateful rhetoric you
espouse, or what your misguided political beliefs might be that  allows
you to do what you did today without a fear of eternal  damnation. I
only Know that you may win a battle or two, but you will  never win this
war. We have the entire history of the world on our  side, and no
dictator, despot, or madman has survived as long as  America has thrived and
prospered. If you accomplished anything at  all today, it was to give
America a wake-up call, and we will now  rise up stronger than before. You
are defeated before you've even  begun, there in your private hell and later
in your eternal one.  Someday your people may even need our help, and
because we are  America, we would respond.

May God bless the friends we lost, their families, friends, neighbors
and coworkers. We will help them rebuild from the ashes. May God
continue to bless America, help her to protect us all, and may she
continue to shine as a beacon of democracy and hope to the rest of  the
world.


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