Remember what Sri Krishna said to Arjuna

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Remember what Sri Krishna said to Arjuna:

 

" Yield not to unmanliness

Ill does it become of thee

Cast of thy faint-heartedness

And rise up! "

 

(Taken from the The Miami Herald - by Leonard Pitts

Jr.

Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001)

 

Title : We'll go forward from this moment

 

It's my job to have something to say.

 

They pay me to provide words that help make sense of

that which trouble the American soul. But in this

moment of airless shock when hot tears sting

disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say,

the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to

the unknown author of this suffering.

 

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.

 

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's

attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us?

What was it you hoped we would learn?

 

Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

 

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned

your cause.

 

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our

resolve.

 

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us

together.

 

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and

quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social,

political and class division, but a family

nonetheless.

 

We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous

emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a

singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a

cartoon mouse.

 

We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability

of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of

that, we walk through life with a certain sense of

blithe entitlement.

 

We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving

and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing

and to do it. Moreover, we are, the overwhelming

majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just

and loving God.

 

Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all

of this makes us weak.

 

You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are

strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

 

IN PAIN

 

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are

in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of

the awful thing you did, still working to make

ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect

from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot

development from a Tom Clancy novel.

 

Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and

the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely

to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the

history of the United States and, probably, the

history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have

never been bloodied before.

 

However, there's a gulf of difference between making

us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan

was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone

hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such

abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are

righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When

provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any

suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the

pursuit of justice.

 

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know

my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know

reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread

of the future.

 

In the days to come, there will be recrimination and

accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose

failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to

prevent it from happening again. There will be

heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic

freedoms.

 

We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened,

sad. Nevertheless, determined, too. Unimaginably

determined.

 

THE STEEL IN US

 

You see, the steel in us is not always readily

apparent. That aspect of our character is seldom

understood by people who don't know us well. On this

day, the family's bickering is put on hold.

 

As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn,

and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that

we cherish.

 

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It

occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the

depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider

the message received. And take this message in

exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know

what we're capable of. You don't know what you just

started.

 

However, you're about to learn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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