Key Taliban members could be your new neighbors
Obama to Close Gitmo
Kristina DIllon
Issue date: 12/21/08 Section: Impact Staff Blogs
Feb 10 - I sat there like most Americans with my eyes glued to the television on that bitter Tuesday morning, that unforgettable Tuesday where most of us will remember exactly where we were for the duration of our lives, much like our parents during the JFK assassination.
It was January 20, 2009 and the first African American was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. But unlike all of the millions of supporters that gathered in Washington D.C. that morning with smiles and tears of joy running down there faces, my heart and spirit for America was breaking.
Not because my candidate lost, or who was being inaugurated, but because for the past eight years I have supported and stood by my president full of pride and joy, and for the first time I didn't feel anything. It was as if something inside of me was lost, something I desperately wanted to feel again.
As I watched the people on the Great Lawn, I deeply wanted to feel what they were feeling, and in a strange way I longed for it. Nothing made me prouder then being an American, but on that morning it just wasn't there.
Of course I was proud of the country and my fellow Americans for coming so far in such a short period of time. It was only 45 years ago when Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers marched to Washington to fight for their civil rights.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial onto the Great Lawn millions had gathered to watch King deliver his infamous "I have a Dream" speech just as they did for Obama's historical inauguration.
Even with all of this sentimental value, there was something in my head telling me not to give in. I didn't know why until the next morning.
One of Obama's first actions as president was to close a United States military prison, Guantanamo Bay, the prison camp that houses some of the most dangerous terrorist in the world on the shore in Cuba.
Obama's reasoning: he does not approve the way the inmates are treated there.
I'm sorry Mr. President these are key members of well known terrorist groups including the Taliban and Al-Qaida, the people who absolutely hate Americans and would do anything to kill us, including kill themselves.
It was January 20, 2009 and the first African American was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. But unlike all of the millions of supporters that gathered in Washington D.C. that morning with smiles and tears of joy running down there faces, my heart and spirit for America was breaking.
Not because my candidate lost, or who was being inaugurated, but because for the past eight years I have supported and stood by my president full of pride and joy, and for the first time I didn't feel anything. It was as if something inside of me was lost, something I desperately wanted to feel again.
As I watched the people on the Great Lawn, I deeply wanted to feel what they were feeling, and in a strange way I longed for it. Nothing made me prouder then being an American, but on that morning it just wasn't there.
Of course I was proud of the country and my fellow Americans for coming so far in such a short period of time. It was only 45 years ago when Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers marched to Washington to fight for their civil rights.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial onto the Great Lawn millions had gathered to watch King deliver his infamous "I have a Dream" speech just as they did for Obama's historical inauguration.
Even with all of this sentimental value, there was something in my head telling me not to give in. I didn't know why until the next morning.
One of Obama's first actions as president was to close a United States military prison, Guantanamo Bay, the prison camp that houses some of the most dangerous terrorist in the world on the shore in Cuba.
Obama's reasoning: he does not approve the way the inmates are treated there.
I'm sorry Mr. President these are key members of well known terrorist groups including the Taliban and Al-Qaida, the people who absolutely hate Americans and would do anything to kill us, including kill themselves.
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