Posted on 09/19/2009 11:03:04 AM PDT by Neil E. Wright
From a Romanian Newspaper (after 9/11/01)
We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA .
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'
Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
On 9/ll, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about.
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic , they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America !'
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being?
Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unites the Americans in such way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money?
I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.
Cornel Nistorescu
Toward FREEDOM!
That’s awesome! Thanks for posting.
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My ode to America
When the staying power of the Americans waned
because freedom is not free
and the work of freedom becomes a tedious lot
the hangers on and the greedy sort
took advantage and said do we really need to work so hard
They put down their shovels and drew their blinds
they waited for someone else to do the hard labor
of keeping America free
And they eventually thought that we had fought on enough
and that work and fighting was not what the world wanted
So they started to withdraw and hide within their borders
and they made reduced the American exceptionalism
to a striving for medicrity
And now the world will do without the beacon of freedom
and the US will no longer feel the guilt of the successful
And the world will not long remember the freedom that the entire world had as a result of the beacon of America
TRUE. TRUE.
However . . . the nature, structure and source of
FREEDOM
is a whole ‘nother issue! LOL.
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Thanks Neil...this is a great inspiring story.
Now...let's all unite and route these vipers out of our White House and Halls of Congress!
Maybe Hannity will find it.
beautiful
I received this also...It is awesome!
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