Reply #27: Neither did I. I found myself speculating, with not a little bit of fear and

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trepidation, about what bush and friends might do to manipulate this event for their own aims. I remember feeling so uneasy that day - that something wicked this way comes.

Nance - I love your work. And I love this piece, also. And I WISH it were that way. For the most part it was - if you were strictly fixated on the pain and national agony of the event. However, if you were attempting to strategize ahead, and try to predict what would result from this, there was no sense of comfort AT ALL. In hindsight, the memories of that fleeting sense of national unity are bittersweet indeed.