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Wayne Gilchrest: “our hearts go out to the hurt America now feels. For centuries, the international civilized community has been plagued…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2001
our hearts go out to the hurt America now feels. For centuries, the international civilized community has been plagued by three fundamental enemies: ignorance, arrogance and dogma. America's solution for the long-term defeat of these enemies is to replace ignorance with knowledge, arrogance with humility, and dogma with tolerance. Sometimes, as now, in the short term a terrible swift sword is also necessary. America now recalls the words of Franklin Roosevelt 60 years ago when he said, ``This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.'' We defeated evil then. We will defeat evil now. Our generation has accepted a rendezvous with this destiny; and that is to rid the world of these plagues.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland
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Addressing the impact of the September 11 attacks and the need for a response.

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