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My best friend's Grandpa taught me how to fish and throw a football as a kid. He was tough, honest, and extremely generous. He had served at Okinawa in WW2 and hated the Japanese. He would not own anything made in Japan, let us watch Godzilla movies at his house, or even eat at a Japanese steakhouse. He was never rude to anyone, but he would tell us, "boys remember you just can't trust them." I don't know what he experienced during the war, and though I don't share this belief, I don't judge his views either.

9/11 is emotional for many Americans. I still don't like Ground Zero, I lost friends there. The notion of that Mosque going up there is reprehensible to me. I want AQ and their supporters terminated, no questions asked.

America is a great melting pot of immigrants, a land of freedom and opportunity, yet have we forgotten the past errors of singling out fellow Americans in times of crisis because of their heritage or background, instead of their actions and character?

A Sikh taxi driver who often took me to work in 2001 , draped his cab with US flags after 9/11. He said " imagine the irony of this, they actually think I am Muslim"

Bad men are bad men, whatever they choose to call god.

Frankly, a man I respect had "TAC AIR" on the last line of his dog tags in Southeast Asia... which as faith goes is elegantly pragmatic, and perhaps a solution for all sorts of crisis....