DC - I must admit that I was a bit insulted by your remarks. Does facing reality and pointing out that the President may have used the events of that day to make political hay, make it any more or less of a tragedy for any of us? Like many others here, my life was touched by the losses of that day. Although few here experienced the horror firsthand as you did, that doesn't make it any less real, or any less of a tragedy. I personally will never forget watching the smoke plume that day from the safety of my conference room windows. I will never forget the countless funeral processions in my neighborhood. I will never forget the little boy in my daughter's class who threw out the first ball at the Little League field renamed Heroes Field in honor of his father and the others that we lost here. To suggest that mentioning it lessens the impact of that attack on anyone is insulting.

TIS, I agree that being open-minded is a good policy. I wish that more people could be open to the ideas of others, but it seems that this country has become one of "with us or against us", and not a whole lot of in-between.