This was a letter posted on ABC News Message board:

God knows how many innocent lives you took this morning,
and how many more have yet to be found in the aftermath of
your cowardice. And for what purpose? Why did so many
Americans have to suffer? What did you hope to gain? Did you expect to horrify us? You succeeded. I seriously doubt, however, that you can begin to understand the consequences of your actions.

Like so many of your ilk, you have created an edifice to chaos
in the expectation that it will destabilize our national community.    And I know, from the outside, that we appear ripe for fission.  We carry with us a national laundry list of turmoil. Race and gender relations, our economic class separation, urban unrest, our educational system, our bureaucracy, even our national moral dilemmas -- all of these issues have plagued us for decades.

And yet, despite all of our problems, we remain the most free and open society on Earth. I don't think you see us as we are; indeed, we are simply the greatest country in the world, and you have forced us to prove it. I want you to watch carefully the next few days and weeks -- this is not a nation of victims. Watch the hospitals, the schools, the blood drives. Watch us care for our dead and injured citizens, and the families of those citizens.  Watch us, and watch carefully, as we rebuild an even greater future on the rubble of our past. Can you create anything in your cowardice? Or can you simply destroy that which has been built by better hands than yours?

And what of our aforementioned national unrest? You underestimate us again. For all our frailties, our heinous mistakes, we have always forgotten personal disputes and pulled together in times of severe crisis. We have weathered greater storms than these, and we will again.  Do you think that Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt were mere cultural and historical anomalies, born to lead? No. They were simply Americans thrust into historic situations who acted according to conscience. We've got 250 million more: men, women, and children.

The day will come -- and soon -- that you will pray that you had never underestimated the inexorable resolve of the American people.  A newscaster here in my city described your actions as leading to  "the darkest day in American history." Watch carefully, for you are about to see our finest hour.

Brad Denton
U.S. Citizen


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