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...years ago. This obligation is made more urgent by the length of time these veterans have waited for answers." One can't help but wonder what challenges lie ahead for the thousands of men and women who are currently fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. And one can only hope that this time, history won't repeat itself...
...long, perceptions of Iran have been dominated by its nuclear saber-rattling and Islamist bluster. Transit Tehran shows us that young Iranians are willing to stick their necks out in the hope that we will look beyond those stereotypes...
...idealists who truly believe that we are all equal. We have waited decades for a leader to touch our hearts the way that King and Kennedy did. Obama has galvanized the American electorate by reminding us who we really are as a people, by touching our hearts with hope, by stirring our imaginations with ideas of a better tomorrow. I feel America is new-born and confident; that we can truly step unfettered into the new millennium and a universe of possibilities. Pushpa Vavilikolanu, Elmhurst, Illinois...
...Obama as if it were the second coming of Christ. I feel sorry for Obama and the intense pressure of expectation this puts on him. Obama may not be the president who leads America and the rest of the world into a fairer, safer and richer age, but I hope he will at least build the road to that age and take the first steps along it. Good luck, Mr. President. Peter Lucas, Launceston, Tasmania...
...best candidate. I do not pretend to empathize with the pain of racism, but to tell whites that Obama's race didn't have that much to do with why blacks voted the way they did is the really "disingenuous" act. Am I not allowed to also hope for an end to racism and its effects? I may not have suffered from them directly, but my country has and does. Jennifer Mather, Flint, Michigan...