"United 93" A remarkable Film

George Will has a column today on the movie, "United 93" ,in which he ends it as follows: "The hinge on which the movie turns are 13 words that a passenger speaks without histrionics, as he and others prepare to rush the cockpit, shortly before the plane plunges into a Pennsylvania field. The words are: "No one is going to help us. we've got to do it ourselves." those words not only summarize this nation's situation in today's war, but also express a citizen's general resposibilities in a free society."

Earlier in the column Will quotes a soldier who fought at Antietam and other Civil War battles. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr:

In this snug, over-safe corner of the world.... we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous untamed streaming of the world and in order that we may be ready for danger.... Out of heroism grow faith in the worth of heroism

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