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I got pretty choked up as I read this today, my friends - and frankly I'm choked up again posting it again. I was standing outside the hospice in Pinellas Park when they were torturing Terri to death. Again and again, I saw her family - her brother, and sister, and mother, and father - exiting the building after having to watch what those murderous ghouls were doing to her inside that building. Their faces looked like the faces of soldiers who had just come from weeks of heavy combat. They had to walk past the beautiful fountain out front, with its waters bubbling up several feet in the air, under a flagpole flying Old Glory, But they wouldn't give her one single drop of that water. It reminded me of Nazi Germany, not the America I know and love.

Thanks for those words.

I still have difficulty believing that the United States sanctioned and carried out the gruesome murder of Terri.

Whether America learns from its mistakes as Germany did after Hitler or chooses to remain on the barbaric track of self destruction that America is on now, I am certain that decades from now history will view Terri's murder as a pivotal moment in American history. People speak of impact that other pivotal events have had like Pearl Harbor, JFK's assassination and 9/11/01, but those events took America by surprise and they were unpreventable (I realize that with proper intelligence and foresight all could have possibly been avoided, but the general public had no knowledge of them and the mechanisms for avoidance weren't in place), Terri's murder was announced in advance and publicly carried out with minute-by-minute coverage - America could have DEMANDED it be stopped, but it didn't.

Nazism's dehumanization of the Jews didn't happen overnight, it started slowly and built up to the point that by the time the German people saw cattle cars full of Jews many of them were already numb to it and didn't care. Since 1973, America has stood by as killing-for-convenience has permeated into the fabric of our lives, many are simply as numb to it as the Germans were to their Holocaust. Thus, when the end came for Terri it was something that most Americans simply wanted to forget about. Of course their were thousands of heroes outside the hospice pleading for Terri's life and tens of thousands more like me at home praying for a miracle, and there was also that portion of the population that has fully embraced evil and cheered her murder; but most Americans SIMPLY DIDN'T CARE, death-for-convenience had simply become something they accepted.