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Proud? Sad? Conflicted? Embarrassed? These are some of the feelings I had when I heard the news. Justice was served, I guess. I wonder if I was the only one that conjured images of some of the Arab world rejoicing and celebrating when the attacks happened. I personally was embarrassed especially with the images of small children holding signs that said horay he’s dead. Really? Is this the message of hate we want to teach the next generation. We call them heathens and evil and then turn around and act exactly the same way. I even was slightly saddened that even more lives were taken in a senseless and barbaric way. We are supposed to be an evolved species but when we can’t agree on something we resort to killing and conquest all in the name of morality. Like our ideals are more important than someone else’s. Don’t get me wrong, I agree that what happened on September 11 was evil and not something the people of NY, Washington and PA deserved. We didn’t bring it on ourselves no matter what stupidity our government was involved in in Afghanistan. I guess what I am saying is I have a lot of very mixed emotions about this and I wonder when the human race will, if ever, get past this mentality of distrust and intolerance. Maybe when the next species evolves on this planet.
So I went and voted this morning and it wasn’t that bad. I went around 10:30 and it took all of 20 minutes total and it wouldn’t have been that if the election commission could figure out how to divide up the names so that one line didn’t have 50 people in it and the others had none. Don’t know where the long lines were but it wasn’t where I went. By the way … GO VOTE. I don’t care who for just go do it.
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