{"id":1455,"date":"2011-09-13T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2011-09-13T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:10:21","slug":"american-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/american-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN RESILIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 9\/11\/11, my old friend Tom Gresham dedicated his radio show \u201cGun Talk<\/a>\u201d to the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on our country. He brought in many of us to comment. I made my contribution from a cell phone at the Harrisburg Hunters & Anglers Club, where I was teaching, and mentioned the fact that this region had just been hit with what the newspapers were calling a \u201chundred year flood,\u201d and \u201cThe Great Flood of 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a microcosm of the spirit that pervaded America in general and the city of New York in particular after the atrocity of a decade before.\u00a0 People working together and helping each other. As in the incident of ten years ago, transportation had been shut down. Some of the students couldn\u2019t make it to the class; some roads into Harrisburg were closed by the flood.\u00a0 Flying in from the east coast, I\u2019d been stranded in Philadelphia during the massive rainstorms that caused the flood, and had to rent one of the last cars available at the airport to drive to Harrisburg through solid downpour.<\/p>\n

The class still went on, as life went on after 9\/11\/01.\u00a0 Thousands of people had to be evacuated as the Susquehanna River rose.\u00a0 Countless homes were ruined.\u00a0 There were injuries and deaths. The inconvenience most of us suffered was, by comparison, insignificant.<\/p>\n

Yet, coming at the time of the somber anniversary of The Atrocity, it showed that the resilience of American spirit was alive and well.\u00a0 People helping people\u2026helping neighbors, helping strangers.<\/p>\n

We have among us senior citizens who remember The Great Depression.\u00a0 Who remember World War II, from which a generation returned from the horrors of man\u2019s inhumanity to man to create \u201cgolden years\u201d of peace, prosperity, and productivity.<\/p>\n

Their spirit still lives, and it\u2019s something of which all of us in this great nation can be proud.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The threat of terrorism still hangs over our nation, as seen in this headline in the days before the anniversary of 9\/11…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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…and when the flood devastated the area along the Susquehanna, neighbors helped neighbors and even strangers, in the best American tradition…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0…below is the Harrisburg Hunters and Anglers range where \u00a0I was teaching, the high water on the trap range visible beforehand and the flooded practical pistol range in the background behind the trees. Volunteers are already repairing it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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