Preisident Obama Remembers Sept. 11, Calls for Unity

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

President Obama tells Americans lesson of Sept. 11 is 'we are one nation, one people'

Amid an atmosphere of unease, President Barack Obama wants Americans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by recapturing the sense of common purpose felt on that dreadful day.

"If there is a lesson to be drawn on this anniversary, it is this: We are one nation — one people — bound not only by grief, but by a set of common ideals," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

"By giving back to our communities, by serving people in need, we reaffirm our ideals — in defiance of those who would do us grave harm."

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"This is a time of difficulty for our country," Obama said. "And it is often in such moments that some try to stoke bitterness — to divide us based on our differences, to blind us to what we have in common.

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[ixion]

1. I want to recapture what we had before the Days of Raygun

because it's pretty much been crap since then... but certainly I want to recapture what we had on Sept 10, which was just a bit more sanity in the collective dialog.

[LittleGirl]

2. I wished someone would correct the spelling of President

in the title.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. "Remembers Sept. 11"...

god, how could any one forget it. It gets pounded into our heads constantly. It is like a big buildup toward orgasmic fear, year after year.