Here She Is?

Received this as a forward today from someone who clearly doesn't know me very well.

“She” is the USS New York, built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center, the fifth in a new class of warship that, according the accompanying description, “will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft” (presumably, wherever we feel the need to keep the world safe from Democracy).

The description continues: “When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence, recalled [a Navy Capt.] who was there. ‘It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.’ [The foundry operations manager] said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the ' hair on my neck stood up. They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.’ The ship's motto? 'Never Forget'.”

The forwarded email goes on to implore us to “Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country!”

What, exactly, are "we" made of in this country? Do you speak for me? Do you speak for my brothers and sisters who pray for peace and a new paradigm? How, exactly, is the making of a war ship a spiritual moment? How many war ships will it take until we feel 100% avenged? Five more war ships? 100,000 more? Ten million?

Wisdom shouts in the streets wherever crowds gather. She shouts in the marketplaces and near the city gates as she says to the people, 'How much longer will you enjoy being stupid fools? Won't you ever stop sneering and laughing at knowledge? Listen as I correct you and tell you what I think. Proverbs 1:20