NABC60
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作者：NABC60 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
玛楞 “写在9.11”
9.11 这天一早，各大美国新闻网都播送了纪念9.11十周年的专题节目，我当然是这一节目的观众之一。如果我在纽约，或那几个主要纪念地点，一定会去参加相关纪念活动。
在所有的纪念活动中，我的突出感觉是，整个纪念活动中，没有一句声讨和谴责，全部集中在对亡者的怀念和追忆，对生者的珍惜和爱，是人性的集中体现。从总统到州、市长的讲话，完全是引用著名的诗句，中间川插了感人的音乐，让人感受到人类文明。奥巴马颂读了圣经中的一段，前总统布什念了林肯总统给一个在CIVIL WAR中失去五个儿子的母亲的信中的一段，... 。这种纪念，让人刻骨铭心。
纪念9.11, 我再次细读我在十年前9.11收到的一篇文章“What is an American”，仍然感触深刻，引全文如下敬9.11中的救火队员和无辜亡灵，并与诸君共享：
What is an American
An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.
Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the least.
The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
作者：NABC60 在 驴鸣镇 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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玛楞 “写在9.11”
