As a Nation, as an assembly of citizens, We Must Halt, Reflect & Mourn

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We need to hault all our ordinary activities.

We must look at what has happened and not allow anyone to prevent us from access to the facts.

We must think about what has happened.

We must mourn the dead.

We must look at ourself.

We must look at one another, in large and small gatherings, in stadiums and in churches and in our neighborhoods and we must talk to one another.

We need to each read our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and Bill of Rights and a few statements from wise and compelling past American leaders. We need to read each of those documents to our children and to those who do not know how to read.

For one week, beginning on September 11, 2005 we need to come together as a Nation and look each other in the eye and ask the questions we so sorely need to ask one another -

"What can I do to help you?"

"How can I lessen your pain, your suffering?"

"What can I do to begin to restore compassion, ethics and accountability to OUR government?"

No State-sponsored parades -- just citizens alone and in groups grappling with where we have been and what direction we now need to steer our Republic.

Bush took a five week vacation that extended through the largest disaster to ever strike a community of American citizens, and a vast segment of American infrastructure.

We The People ... can certainly take one week to assess what our Nation is and what we want it to be.

We The People ... can take one week to bring our full attention and empathy to all those who have suffered because of Katrina and because of Iraq. We can mourn together and we can begin to heal, together.

We The People ... can take one week to determine what each of us is going to do.

That week could well be remembered as the most important week in American history.

In the comment, below, I have attached links or the text of each document that I think we all need to read, alone and together. Let us understand the America represented in those documents and let us understand that it is entirely up to each of us to begin restoring that America.


Peace.