Even though it is called President Backbone most of the article is about how much Americans love America.
Our young troops love their country. That is why they are where they are. It has had me thinking a happy thought, about the success with which our country, for all its troubles the past few decades, has continued to communicate to new generations the simple idea of the goodness of loving America. They have picked up the sheer exuberant joy of understanding a thing and, because one understands it and because it is good, loving it, and then acting on that love to the extent that you would fight for it, you would even die for it. This is a beautiful thing, more precious than gold.
Peggy Noonan always find the positive in the worst of times. She had a really good piece after 911 about New Yorkers feeling united.
(Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2001
I walked by a local schoolyard. On the steps, a group of young tough kids who are often there playing a boom box. They have the look, the manner, of danger, and everyone says drugs are sold there. Yesterday they were on the steps, boom box blaring, only this time it was news reports telling us what was happening. The well-suited men and women marching by would stop and listen to the news, and then nod with thanks and leave. I listened for 10 minutes and when I left I said "Thank you, gentlemen," and they smiled and said "Welcome." They were offering a public service.
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