I came across a quote from the Greek historian, Thucydides recently that speaks of and to people of Ms. Sheehan's views perfectly.
"Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens (read US) as you have it before you........fall in love with her......remember that this greatness was won by men with courage...knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action....So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received......praise that will never die, and.....
the grandest of all sepulchers.......a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains free to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes........their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...For you now it remains to rival what they have done....knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom....the secret of freedom a brave heart...
vaudine
Bump!