On The Third Hand
A Proud member of the Brigade of Bellicose WomenThe liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. — Samuel Adams
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17 December, 2001: "Bravery..."By Kathy Kinsley Before September 11, we Americans found most of our heroes and heroines among the famous. Few of those movies stars, musicians and athletes were truly heroic--but they were all we had. On September 11, we learned what a true hero is. A real hero does the right thing when the chips are down. The police and firefighters who rushed into the WTC to rescue who they could, ordinary people who helped the helpless escape, passengers who fought--all heroes. The real heroes were not the famous, they were just people who did what they could when they had to. There's another country, very different from ours, which also has heroes and heroines among its common people. I'd like to introduce you to one group. In a place called Kandahar, there's an Afghan man called Abdul Ali. He's a former UN worker, who directed many of the US strikes on the city. He worked with women, who smuggled his satellite phone from house to house under their burqas, risking their lives to do so. He could not have safely carried it. One of the women said ""I did what I did to get an independent country, for the future of my nation." Even in places that are by no means "land of the free", there can still be a "home of the brave".
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