Something to Think About

I want to remind each and every one of us of something...

Terrorists come in ALL colors, shapes and sizes.

I see so many people in this country and around the world who are "race profiling" and it saddens me.

The reality is that white people may very well have helped with this attack on the United States. In fact, authorities already know they did, whether intentionally or not.

Remember, Timothy McVeigh was a white man. I remember well when the first news reports came out... our first knee-jerk reaction was to blame the bombing in Oklahoma City on people of middle eastern descent.

In some people's minds, they started calling Timothy McVeigh a serial killer instead of what he was... a terrorist. Perhaps it made it easier for them to rationalize. They were wrong. He was a cold-blooded terrorist. A terrorist who looked just like the boy next door, like our husbands and boyfriends, like our sons, our brothers, our fathers. A terrorist who served in our own military.

For those of you who get angry at our government for training Osama bin Laden during the war with Afganistan, remember, our own government helped to train Timothy McVeigh. I am not blaming our government. Far from it. I served in the military and it didn't make me a killer.

Threats can come from all directions. Watching only the right hand leaves you open to being smacked by the left... or kicked by either foot. If we only look in one of those directions, we may never see the other threats coming. And maybe, just maybe that's what the evil ones want us to do. Because I assure you, whether we like it or not, other threats will be coming, whether tomorrow or the next century. They will come.

Remember, terrorists come in ALL colors, shapes and sizes.

Bless the USA... and all of humanity.