[FryingPan101]

What a wonderful post. Thanks.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[FairWitness]

Peggy Noonan is beautiful both outside and inside!

[TontoKowalski]

"Believe me, as soon as 343 Internet executives rush into a burning building and die so that strangers can live, I'm gonna drop the firemen like a rock and celebrate executives."

Oooh, a little biting sarcasm from the lips of America's greatest contemporary writer. It's a good thing!

A few on another thread thought that Mark Steyn was a better writer than Ms. Noonan. I didn't swoon at his writing the only time I gave it a try (maybe a bad day for him or for me), but if he can beat her with the pen, I'm willing to give it another go.

[abner]

Peggy bump!

[John O]

But it is not the American dream to want to live outside a suburb of Tulsa in a $600 a month apartment. It is the American dream to, among other things, be at the book party celebrating your friend's bestseller surrounded by brilliant, accomplished and interesting Americans who take part in the world, who are immersed in it and try to turn it this way and that.

I agreed with and enjoyed everything but this. For some of us a house in the suburbs is the American dream. Being trapped in NY in a book party is something reserved for only the blackest and most evil of souls (Kind of like being forced to wallpaper forever in a room with crooked walls)

I want to be in my own rural or small town home, surrounded by friends and family. I have found the brilliant, accomplished and interesting Americans to usually be enemies of my way of life, stupid (as to the really importnat things) and boring.

[and yes my house payment is about $600. Peggy's too used to NY prices to know what reality is in the small town housing market]

God Save America (Please)

[TLBSHOW]

AMAZING STORY

[Flyer]

"They found Osama! They caught bin Laden!" And the street stopped stock still and then someone cheered and then we all cheered,

I think this is how it will be.

[EternalVigilance]

Ah, Peggy Noonan...

Been an emotional morning for me anyhow...then to read this!

Found myself tearing up a couple times because of Peggy's insightful knowledge of my fellow Americans, and our current state of mind and heart.

God, bless Peggy Noonan. Please.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks. I Loved this. I will bookmark it for the sites she mentions. In fact, I'm going to some of them now :o)

I'm sure Peggy already belongs to FR. Maybe she is a lurker.. or maybe she is ??? (There are so many screen names she could be).

Barbara Olsen was (and forever will be) a Freeper. A prime example of how we have the "best of the best" at FreeRepublic. :o)

[JoeSchem]

We wouldn't have to work so hard if we would take everything we have and rent a $600 a month apartment just outside a suburb of Tulsa, and join a local church and get a job in a hardware store and be peaceful and kind and take the elderly neighbor to the hospital every other week for chemo.

But it is not the American dream to want to live outside a suburb of Tulsa in a $600 a month apartment.

Ah, the rich like to think that being poor is easy. Being on welfare is easy, but being poor is not. That $600 a month apartment will eat half your monthly paycheck at the hardware store. More, after taxes. And should it be mentioned that minimum wage work is mind-numbing?

Talents and opportunities are gifts from God, and we should never underrate God's role in our success.

[summer]

Love her or hate her, she really is an excellent writer.

[tallhappy]

Bump.

In reading her columns of earlier after 911 and what our response is as citizens to the war the terrorists have brought to us I realized she (and her son) read Free Republic.

[doug from upland]

I am pleased to say that Peggy has let us know she and her son love her copy of THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN.