9/11 USA 11.9.2001

Syvä osanottoni yhdysvaltalaisille 11.9.2001 tehdyn terroiskun johdosta.

My deep condolences with the US people on the September 11th attacks, 2001.

 

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Suuren kansan mahtava kansallislaulu.
A magnificent anthem of a great nation. 

Mutta - However,

I do like better what William James (1842 - 1910) says:

I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man’s pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed. So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top. — You need take no notice of these ebullitions of spleen, which are probably quite unintelligible to anyone but myself.

Järkyttävästä terrori-iskusta voit lukea myös blogistani, jonka julkaisin 10.9.2012.
You may read of the horrific terrorist attack in my blog that I published on Sept. 10, 2012.