09/19/2024
A friend of mine shared this from his memories the other day. I thought it was great, and wanted to share it with you!
We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA
Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'.
~An Ode to America ~
Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
On 9/11, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about.
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America !'
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth unites the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.
Cornel Nistorescu
(This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever.) It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted !
GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!
MY TAKE:
On 9/12, there were no blacks, whites, yellow, brown, or red skins, only AMERICANS!!! There were no Catholics, Jews, Muslim, Protestants, Buddists, Atheists or Sheikh, just AMERICANS!!! There were no straight, gay, bi, trans, gender neutral, or any other form of LGBTQ+, just AMERICANS!!!
This is what we have lost😢! We have lost tolerance to be who you want to be, think what you want to think, laugh at what you think is funny. Blue or Red should not define us, or divide us, the only colors that matter are, RED, WHITE & BLUE!!! It should not matter who we are, or what we do, or what we believe, everyone is entitled to think as you want. You want to believe the world is flat, it's OK. You want to believe, ET visited you last nite, it's OK, you want to believe Santa is real, it's OK. THIS IS THE USA, that's why you can believe what you want, that is not possible in many countries around the world, but it is here!! PEOPLE WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO LIVING & LAUGHING WITHOUT FEAR OF RETRIBUTION, that is what the USA is about!!!
