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From: P Nielsen Hayden <p...@panix.com>

Date: 15 Sep 2001 12:04:24 GMT

Local: Sat, Sep 15 2001 8:04 am

Subject: Re: Just figured it out

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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:39:02 GMT,
Priscilla H Ballou <p...@world.std.com> wrote:

> I've been reacting very negatively to all the flag-waving and
> ribbon-wearing going on around me, and I've just figured out one of the
> reasons why.

> The destruction of the World Trade Center felt to me like the entry of
> the US into the world -- the same world everyone else has been living in
> but one from which we've been holding ourselves aloof. We somehow thought
> we were immune from destruction from abroad. That only happens in
> "other" parts of the world. On Tuesday, we joined the "other" and there
> was no more "other." We were all "us" -- countries who have experienced
> violence.

> All the "Hey, hey, USA!" rallies and flags and lapel ribbons feel to me
> like the US is again separating from the rest of the world.

What Teresa has been saying for years, not just this week, is: "It's
my flag too."

And it is.

I'm a patriot. I love my decadent, cosmopolitan, self-indulgent,
racially-mixed, godless, intellectually dilletante, drug-abusing,
promiscuous, queer-loving country. And its flag is the Stars and
Stripes.

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