M.Ted,

Having felt my emotions run the gamut living some 1500 miles from ground zero with no friends or relatives near the attcks, I can only imagine that those emotions must be multiplied by a thousand in your case. I'm sure my overreactionary posts only made things worse. While I don't apologize for my patriotic feelings, I do apologize for the manner in which I expressed them, and for only stirring things up more by doing so. I didn't take the time to focus my argument on the specific areas of specific posts I wanted to call into question, and it must have read as a much more vicious and blanketed rant than it was intended to be. I thank you, Troll, and everyone else for the civility you've shown, and promise to try to breathe deep and count slowly to ten before clicking the submit button in the future.