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[Rachel Bray]

Yesterday all I had in my head was:

"I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away."
(Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2)

I woke this morning to the radio playing God Bless the USA.

You know, when I was going through my divorce my father 
said to me "The best revenge is to live well."

I think the thing that is going to be the biggest 
retaliation against these cowards is to let them see that 
the US is still standing, heads held high and not crumbling 
behind this horrible act of war.  The President was so 
right last night when he said that nothing was going to put 
out our "light".  We'll find those who are responsible, 
we'll rebuild what was destroyed, and we'll be stronger as 
a Nation because of it.

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...

Yes.  Very proudly and defiantly.

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
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