From: SeaPiglet-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:42:38 EDT
Subject: Re: Hello


In a message dated 9/16/01 8:26:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
flsimons-AT-telus.net writes:

<< But do you really think the Myth of America died, or do you think it's 
being
 resurrected for the purposes of steeling you (and me I suppose) for the
 horror, oh the horror, that some crazed corporate industial-military complex
 perpetuates? >>

Nope, Myth of America is merely strengthened, in my USA citizen opinion.  
Okay, now that I've said that, what exactly is the Myth of America again?

My next door neighbor, a devout catholic stay-at-home mommy with 3 children 
under the age of 6, firmly told me that since innocent people were killed in 
the WTC and vicinity, therefore it was justified to kill innocent ("not 
*directly responsible") people in Afghanistan because that country harbors 
the terrorists.  Didn't even blink.

Interesting, though, that this happened at a time when WWII is being 
seriously revisited in the American entertainment.  I saw the movie "Pearl 
Harbor" a few weeks ago, finally.  I am watching the second installment of 
"Band of Brothers" on HBO right now.  It's about the Normandy invasion.  Or 
one company's experience in it.  I think my emotional responses to the WTC 
bombing are influenced by these fictive representations of WWII.

Ellen