illustration by mike luckevich the atlanta constitution
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ILLUSTRATION BY
Mike Luckevich
The Atlanta Constitution
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We'll go forward from this momentBY LEONARD PITTS JR.
The Miami Herald Wednesday,
September 12, 2001
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It’s my job to have something to say.
They pay me to provide wordsthat help make sense of that which
troubles the American soul.
PRESENTATION BY ED MILLER
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But in this moment of airless shock
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when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes,
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the only thing I can find to say,
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the only words that seem to fit,
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must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.
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You monster.
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You beast.
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You unspeakable bastard.
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What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward’s attack on our World Trade Center,
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our Pentagon,
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us?
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What was it you hoped we would learn?
PRESENTATION BY ED MILLER
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Whatever it was, please know that you failed.
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Did you want us to respect your cause?
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You just damned your cause.
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Did you want to make us fear?
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You just steeled our resolve.
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Did you want to tear us apart?
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You just brought us together.
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Let me tell you about my people.
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We are a vast and quarrelsome family,
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a family rent by racial, social, political and class division,
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but a family nonetheless.
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peace-loving and compassionate.
We are fundamentally
decent . . .
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We struggle to know the right thing and to do it.
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And we are,the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith . . .
believers in a just and loving God.
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Some people -- you, perhaps -- thinkthat any or all of this makes us weak.
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You’re mistaken. We are not weak.
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Indeed, we are strong in ways thatcannot be measured by arsenals.
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Yes, we’re in pain now. . .
We are in mourning and we are in shock.
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We’re still grappling with the unrealityof the awful thing you did.
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Both in terms ofthe awful scope oftheir ambition . . .
and the probable final death toll,
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your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism . . .
in the history of the United States, and, probably, the world.
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You’ve bloodied uslike we have never been bloodiedbefore.
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But there is a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall.
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This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard,
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the last time anyone brought us suchabrupt and monumental pain.
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When roused, we are righteous in our
outrage, terrible in our force.
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When provoked by this level of barbarism . . .
We will bear any suffering,
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pay any cost . . .
go to any length,
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in the pursuit of justice.
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I tell you this without fear of
contradiction. . .
I know my people, as you, I think, do not.
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What I know reassures me. . .
It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.
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We’ll go forward from this moment . . .
sobered, chastened, sad.
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Butdetermined, too.
Unimaginably determined.
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As Americans we will weep . . .
as Americans we will mourn,
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and as Americans, we will rise in defense
of all that we cherish.
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So I ask again:
What was it you hoped to teach us?
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It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted
us to know the depths of your hatred.
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If that’s the case, consider the
message received.
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And take this message in exchange:
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You don’t know my people.
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You don’t know what we’re capable of.
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You don’t know what you just started.
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But you’re about to learn.
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