The cowardly terrorists who struck us on 9-11, and many of their ilk, have badly misjudged the soul of America. Oh, sure, our popular culture is decadent and sometimes hopelessly vain, naive, and nasty- but that is not the real America.
The real America gets up every day, takes care of its family, and goes to work, doing things that will never be lauded, or even appear, on the media's radar.
But that doesn't mean we aren't real, or out there in flyover country.
Not too long ago, a largely agrarian America was jarred out of dreams of isolationism by a nasty group of totalitarians and mass-murderers called the Axis.
It took us, what? Four years to turn that "Thousand-Year Reich" into a smouldering heap of rubble.
A wee bit longer to hammer down the "Greater Southeast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."
( Don't you just love the names these Jackals give themselves? )
And we used nuclear weapons in the end to finish it.
I know one thing- it takes longer than a generation or two for the Iron to leech out of a nations' soul-- my Mom & Dad participated in WWII, because they had no other choice than to become Axis slaves.
When I look in the eyes of my two dear nieces- the closest ones to children I'll ever have- guess what? I see the Iron is still there. The blood runs true in America.
The self-deluded fools in the Middle East goosed the Eagle, and now, there's Hell to be paid.
The blood runs true...
...and there's plenty of it out here in flyover country as well.
God bless you and yours for your sentiment and your commitment to the very ideals and principles...and faith...that have made and continue to make this nation what it is, despite every effort of those enemies.