Reply #4: I feel the same way [View All]

[chookie]

I am not a New Yorker, but I remember the outpouring of love we received on our own day of horror, all of us, not just those of you in NYC. People all over the world spontaneously streamed into embassies to hold vigils or weep in sympathy; people spontaneously embraced Americans who were abroad.

I am ashamed of the way our government has responded.

Bush does not represent me.

New Yorkers represent me -- you guys did us proud that day, and all the days that followed. New York is a heroic city.

I was never so proud of my country as I was when I saw how New Yorkers took the necessary tasks upon themselves that day, and how so many millions of Americans mobilized to help out any way they could.

I'm proud of the America that has been swamping the phoneline and internet sites of charities, to rush emergency supplies to our human family, because, alas, our government has failed to do so.