The David Berger National Memorial is on the front lawn of the Jewish Community Center on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
President Bush has claims that he is the ONE who will defeat TERRORISM, like terrorism is some kind of person or group, kind of like Saddam Hussein, who, I guess, was not the answer to all the problems in Iraq and elsewhere, what, with 1,000 families of U.S. soldiers and scores of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan families suffering this morning, having been joined by thousands of Russians.
Back on this date in 1972, weight-lifter David Berger was ready to compete in the Olympic competition. He died at the hand of Palestinian terrorists. Others more educated about the events of that dark day in history, when one type of innocence, was lost have written more eloquently than I can; and I do not want to get get into a discussion of the whole Palestine issue here.
I have a few questions this morning, without trying to be morose, trying to understand what's happening, on the anniversary of a day that many will remember as being part of their own personal "Terrorism 101," and being nobody of any importance, but just a guy out here living from day-to-day digging ditches.