Part of LKH's blog from 09/11/05
From http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2005/09/remembering-911-and-rant-about-katrina.html
Part of LKH's blog from 09/11/05 regarding Katrina:
We are the United States of America. We will still be that, if we let a plane from Sweden land in our country. We will still be America if we let all the countries we have helped over the years help us. Taking help from your friends is not weak. That is what friends are for. I know that it is naive to talk of friendship on a international political level. But, maybe, in this time of crisis, we could begin to realize that we have more friends than enemies in the world. The world may be puzzled by America. We are unique, and sometimes too loud, and too full of ourselves, too sure, but we are, after all, only 230 years old, as a country. We are a teenager, as countries go. Maybe it's time to grow up, and realize that we aren't isolated in our fears. That there are millions of people around the world, right now, right this minute, that are worrying with us. Strangers we will never meet have cried at the news of our losses. As we cried when the tsunami hit. As we cried when we heard of the tragedy on a bridge in Iraq. Tears do not make us weak. Tears prove that we have hearts.
Part of LKH's blog from 09/11/05 regarding Katrina:
We are the United States of America. We will still be that, if we let a plane from Sweden land in our country. We will still be America if we let all the countries we have helped over the years help us. Taking help from your friends is not weak. That is what friends are for. I know that it is naive to talk of friendship on a international political level. But, maybe, in this time of crisis, we could begin to realize that we have more friends than enemies in the world. The world may be puzzled by America. We are unique, and sometimes too loud, and too full of ourselves, too sure, but we are, after all, only 230 years old, as a country. We are a teenager, as countries go. Maybe it's time to grow up, and realize that we aren't isolated in our fears. That there are millions of people around the world, right now, right this minute, that are worrying with us. Strangers we will never meet have cried at the news of our losses. As we cried when the tsunami hit. As we cried when we heard of the tragedy on a bridge in Iraq. Tears do not make us weak. Tears prove that we have hearts.