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[jheen at mmcable.com]

Rachel said: 

> 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 have to add my thoughts to this. The past day I've been reminded 
over and over again of the OKC bombing, except I'm in the other 
shoes. I hadn't realize how horrible it was from this position, the 
not knowing, the worrying, the dependency on news channels to tell me 
what's going on and hoping they aren't reporting random rumors, the 
helplessness, and everything that comes with not being in the middle 
of it. But the one thing that touched me back six years ago is still 
the same: how everyone has pulled together to help out. How all 
divisions have been forgotten. I had hoped never to have to go 
through this again, but I am so very proud of our country today. They 
can bomb us, destroy our buildings, kill us, but they can't break us 
as long as we don't let them. And that's what they want to do. And I 
personally would rather die than to let them cower me.

Genevieve, humming along with Rachel while waving her American flag