The question posed by Yossarian in 'Catch-22,' ... is one of the great questions of modern times: Is this huge industrial military that we've constructed, has it become more deadly and powerful than the cause for which is was constructed? |
The tsunami did provoke an extraordinary response and got us thinking of new measures. |
The world was wracked with pain in 2005, enduring a parade of natural disasters. And, of course some of the pain was self-inflicted -- war, terrorism, rebellion, violence, crime, drug abuse, business fraud. ... There is never a slow day in the news business. |
There were signs everywhere saying, 'If you loot, we shoot,' ... The first looter we had, they had ripped his ear off. They really tore him up. |
There's just a stench of things rotting, decaying - dead seafood, poultry, other things I can't talk about. It gets into your nose; it gets into your clothes. You can't get away from it. |
These people couldn't thank us enough. They had lost their employers, their homes, their cars, and here they were trying to give us what little bit they still had. One man had nothing but watermelon cut up, and he kept trying to give us some. |
They literally worked until they dropped. |
To me, this says: 'I'm a survivor. I'm proud to be an American. Things like that left me amazed at how resilient those people are. |