> Lori - truly I did not mean to direct it at you > or say you personally did this.
Whew. Okay. Sorry if I appeared to over-react. > I'm not personally flying a big flag everyday. Put one > on the car for awhile when I didn't know if we would still > be here on the planet in the days after 9/11. I still have a "regular"-sized flag decal on my windshield. My brother gave it to me, and he would probably be offended if I took it off. Leaving it there keeps the family peace. My own reactions to 9/11 were these, in order: 1) Overwhelming urge to put on my USAF uniform again 2) HUGE urge to go home and erect a flag pole in my front yard (followed by raising a flag, of course) 3) Called my partner (who watched the Pentagon burn from her office window), left her a message to say "If the world should end, know that I love you." 4) Called my mother to tell her we were okay. As it turned out, she didn't yet know anything had happened. 5) Wonder and a bit of bewilderment at my 1st and 2nd reactions. > Agree that over-waving it takes away from the meaning. Well, we ARE on the same paragraph of that page! Actually, I'm not surprised. Kakki, I've always thought -- over all these years (5 already!) -- that you and I have had an unspoken understanding to respectfully agree to disagree about certain things. Glad to know that's true. Always, Lori ~
