I Write Letters

But I don't think it's going to get published.

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To the Editor:

On September 7, Linda Lee of Oswego wrote a letter [2nd letter, scroll down] suggesting that on this September 11th, we should turn on our car lights “as a way to remember the fallen.” But what if it is raining or overcast and we would have our car lights on regardless? How then would we let our patriotism be known?

So I have an alternate suggestion: when the sun sets this 9/11, let us leave our car lights off. I can think of no better tribute to those 3,000 dead souls than to drive through the nighttime streets with our headlights extinguished--to show the terrorists, once and for all, that we will not live in fear. And if we cannot see the road ahead, simply do as we have been doing for the last 6 years: press on, press on, though we know not where we’re going.

Michael Barthel
Syracuse

Labels: hallelujah, politics

posted by Mike B. @ 9:59 AM