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An absent minded vigil
Joseph Palmersheim's report about the 9-11 vigil held at SCSU titled, "Vigil stirs emotions," revealed the American flag was noticeably absent despite flags from other countries being shown. How can this be? The one year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, was about the United States, not the United Nations or some other form of neutral and noneffective claptrap "global cause."
It is a sad time we are living in when people whose abundant liberties and justices are protected by the greatest freedom-loving country on earth, try to push their shallow personal grievances so far as to restrict gestures of patriotism one year on from the greatest tragedy in American history. The people who do these things base their beliefs from the old 'who-did-what-to-whom' mumbo-jumbo argument of years past. The tragedies of 9-11 null these arguments. 9-11 was about a war of two worlds; one of which chooses to live in the present, and, in kind, prospers doing so, while another forces their people to live in a non-democratic world so out-dated that their people can hardly comprehend what a book is.
Sadly, what happened at SCSU is a festering problem at many American universities. Fortunately, as we saw a year ago at famously liberal colleges such as U of C at Berkeley, Yale, and Harvard, where students rallied in great masses in patriotic support (that included flag waving), 9-11 broke many bonds between skeptic liberal academicians and students. After 9-11, many college students, nationwide, are learning to call a thing by its name. This is a refreshing change. It is time the students of SCSU follow up. Let's hope so.
Jason Oberg, B.S. SCSU (2001)
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