this deserves it's own post...

"I want a president who can one day restore Sept. 11th to its rightful place on the calendar: as the day after Sept. 10th and before Sept. 12th. I do not want it to become a day that defines us. Because ultimately Sept. 11th is about them -- the bad guys -- not about us. We're about the Fourth of July."

- Thomas L. Friedman (via gryphonrhi here)