[Pokey78]

A ping for our national poet.

[ladyinred]

I just love Peggy! I just love the Duke, and I love that the real man is being celebrated today, and that the cross remains when all else falls around us!

[Snake65]

Great article, I can see it in the mountains of Afghanistan now....

Bin Laden: "Terrorism is caused by poverty and despair. Did you bring gold?"

Wayne: "No."

Bin Laden: "Ahhh, silver maybe?"

Wayne: "Just lead."

[x]

Nice enough. But I'd rather skip the poetry and hear what Peggy has to say about her immigration enthusiasm today. Not that that enthusiasm and the dim and hazy poetry she generated around immigration were the worst things in the world, but they really stifled a lot of hard thought about our future. It would be good to know if she had any second thoughts -- and thoughts is the word -- after what's happened.

It's good to have John Wayne back. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll let him stay unless we can't do without him. I'd rather have him around than a lot of other people I could name, but he could be a sign that peace is not coming back for a long time. We may be a better country now. We are rediscovering some old and real truths that we'd forgotten. But we'll miss some of those silly and irresponsible pleasures of peacetime.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks for the post. I love Peggy Noonan's writings. She is elegant and lyrical.

[NYpeanut]

I think I'll go kiss my manly man right now.

[Movemout]

"Thank you pilgrim."

[riley1992]

I am speaking of masculine men, men who push things and pull things and haul things and build things, men who charge up the stairs in a hundred pounds of gear and tell everyone else where to go to be safe. Men who are welders, who do construction, men who are cops and firemen. They are all of them, one way or another, the men who put the fire out, the men who are digging the rubble out, and the men who will build whatever takes its place.

She is at her best here. Masculinity in a man is one of God's greatest gift's. In it's truest form it is raw and powerful and quiet. I, for one, cannot imagine why a woman would want it any other way.

[jokemoke]

Yes, welcome back! W is the living example of "Duke". He has shown America what a real man should be. And, from this woman, comes a huge THANK YOU!!!!!

[xsmommy]

this woman is unbelievable. i have always liked her, but since 9/11, she has been magnificent.

[jaime1959]

I love Peggy! Think I'll rent True Grit tonight.

[JoeSixPack1]

When Cassious Clay, now Mohammed Ali, who at the time was the undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world, refused the draft on religious grounds he fired the opening salvo that encouraged the flower power peace movement of the 60's. All of a sudden, tough guys were no longer allowed to be tough guys. We were told we had an inner feminist side. What did we know? if the toughest guy in the ring is a pacifist, who was to argue? Peaceniks, NOW, bra burning, draft dodgers all the way up to x42's domineering wife had us tough guys in chains. Maybe its ok for tough guys to come out of the closet now? Or are we just being given a war time furlogh?

[upchuck]

About damned time. I am soooooo tired of all this wishy washy, feel-good, leftest, inner-child, psychobabble, politically correct, in-touch-with-your-feelings, sensitivity BS that I could just puke.

I am a man and I try hard to be a gentleman. But that doesn't mean I have to be a woose. There are times I feel like the guy on the airplane; stunned that a woman would put down my effort at doing what guys have been doing for hundreds of years.

"Gentleman" has been dumbed down and twisted for the last 15 years or do. Maybe we're finally getting our senses back.

God bless the Duke. He set the standard.

[Reagan's_Mom]

Bump for later reading

[JoeGar]

Wow! What an article!

[Aggie Mama]

I've always maintained that I think part of the reason for the success of romance novels is the fact that the male lead is inevitably the strong "alpha-male" type. I always know that anything I read by Noonan will make me happy. Sending this one to the Dukes in my life -- my father and my husband.

[AuntToots]

White hats are back in style, there really is a new sheriff in town. And this is even more evident after President Bush's news conference last night. I said to my husband, "John Wayne would have been proud."

[Phaedrus]

Marvelous, Marvelous! Our New Cultural "Guru" is capturing the essence of our 911 Wake Up Call. God Bless America and God Bless the Manly Virtues!!!

[prognostigaator]

Peggy Noonan looks into her own heart and exposes it for all to see..
She reaches into her soul and and offers it for all to use as an example of her genuine spiritualness.
Peggy Noonan listens to her conscience and reveals to all what it is to be humble.
She then examines her intellect and offers the fruits of it to the cynical and the sarcastic, and to the less intelligent to her, of what life really is all about...

The effete snobs of the media,those talking heads such as Chriss Matthews , the Al Hunts, the Jennings and Brokaws and Wrathers,which include the primping bunch at most of the major TV cable outlets , the NoW groups, No Gun groups, the man-boy love groups, the ardent members of the charter Clinton fan club and apologists which include the sleazy Hollywood celebrities

who will never ever match the talents of and patriotism of the Robert Montgomerys, the Tyrone Powers,et al , who enlisted in the armed services leaving their careers behind- the Martha Rayes and the Betty Grables who danced with the troops at the USO,

are simply cannot equal ,nor would have no answer to Peggy Noonan's written reflections of the truth as she ,and you , and most here at FR see it.....

[Ironword]

A few weeks ago I wrote a column called "God Is Back," about how, within a day of the events of Sept. 11, my city was awash in religious imagery--prayer cards, statues of saints.

I generally like Noonan's writings, but I have to disagree with her assertion that "God is back" in New York City; rather, it is the "unknown god" that has been exalted for the past few weeks.