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...feel enormous frustration at being so far from the tragedies of Sept. 11. They're constantly inventing ways to connect to it. On Sept. 20, the city council passed a resolution honoring the victims. A carpet-store sign advertises a sale on vinyl, followed by the now universal GOD BLESS AMERICA. Locals have donated $17,200 to the Red Cross in three weeks, a huge pile of money in a county where the average income is $23,000. At the town's historic armory, someone has taped up the list of victims, printed off CNN's website. None of them...
...Sang God Bless America...
Still, there are already signs that we are too culturally polyglot to turn back the clock out of a yearning for comfort. The cast of The Producers' singing God Bless America on Broadway was all the more defiant for its squareness. But there was also something strangely appropriate about MTV's playing Kid Rock's American Badass in honor of rescue workers on a special episode of the video-request show TRL: the video's star-spangled obscenity, its bikers and bikinis, was somehow a perfect riposte to an act of cultural-conservative terror ordered from within a land where...
...test of this nation’s willingness to defend its values at any cost, a Democrat by the name of Stephen Douglas approached Republican Abraham Lincoln with the words, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” The two were hardly friends, and yet there are times when the most bitter of political foes become brothers allied against a common enemy...
Celine Dion, the French-Canadian who helped close the telethon with a rousing rendition of “God Bless America,” is planning to headline a Montreal show that will benefit victims as well. “Quebec-New York” is slated...