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Hi Heather,<br><br>
I don't respond much on the group but I did want to respond to your
question.<br><br>
I was on the Camino on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers.
Follow the link below which will show what I am trying to do now about
the way our country is acting. I am not supporting what our president is
doing - I just can't. I love my country and at least it makes me feel
better to show that I am against the present attitude of my country's
president. Many Americans feel just like you and I but for one reason or
another can't say so.<br><br>
click here:<br>
<a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73124466349264&Avis=WM&Dato=20030119&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=301190314&Ref=AR" eudora="autourl">http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73124466349264&Avis=WM&Dato=20030119&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=301190314&Ref=AR</a><br><br>
Dan<br><br>
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At 03:19 PM 1/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> I am not
really sure how to state my uncertainties. To start, all this
political talk does make me worried. I don't know what to
think. I am 20 and from the USA. For most of my life I never
knew that such extremely horrible things occured in the world. I
was really innocent. Even now I don't know most of what goes on,
who is responsible, etc. So my question is, I have been struggling
with this one for the past couple years, am I supposed to feel guilty and
responsible for these things I had no hand in? I mean, I know that
my country does not reach the idealistic standard that many would like to
believe in. I don't live in a fantasy world. Thinking about
what my government and what American coorporations do gives me this sick
feeling in my stomach. It's like I've commited horrible atrocities
that I knew nothing about.<br>
The USA is a bubble. You spend your whole
life here and from the inside you can't tell that there is anything wrong
with having such an excess of food, or being bored because all of your
basic needs are taken care of. So I can't believe that we are
absolutely 'bad' or 'evil'. Americans are just like any other
people in the world. We want to live our lives to the best of our
abilities with the resources that are around us. It just so happens
that we have an abundance of resources at the expense of others. I
never knew this. I love meeting people from other countries and
whenever I do I always drill them on how what their country is
like. I always have this nagging feeling though that I owe them
something, or that there is no way they could ever really like me.
Basically, I am not sure what to do. I have never personally wanted
to harm anyone else. It just happens by default I guess. This
must be the reason that people don't respond very well to anti-american
!<br>
sentiment. We don't feel that we personally have done anything
wrong. We were just put in this situation from birth. And it
hurts me so bad to see my boyfriend, who is in the Navy, because he
honestly believes that the US stands for good and righteous principles
and he actually believes in his job. He's not just there because he
has to be. I don't want to see what it does to him the day he opens
his eyes to the reality in the world.<br>
So I guess I am asking this question of the
other people on this board who are from the US. How do you feel
about it, because I still can't figure out what to think or how to
feel. I can't hate my country, I just can't, but I can't go on
believing in the bullshit fairy tale that Bush talked about for the first
half hour of his state of the union address.<br><br>
Heather</blockquote>
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“I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us
beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to a
broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the
fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the
earth"<br>
<b>John Wesley, (Methodist Founder)<br><br>
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