The dream of America
“Still missing in the rubble of 9/11 is the idea of America that enriched, strengthened and protected us for more than two centuries. Overcome with fear and anger, and later in denial parading as pride, we hardly noticed it was gone.”
This week, TomPaine.com published another of their fine ads on the op-ed pages of the the New York Times and other newspapers around the country. This brief essay by Sam Smith (who has been mentioned by me more than once before) manages to convey what I think most needed to be said on this anniversary.
Read the whole ad here.
