No screed on the failure of the Bush administration to reach for the stars. That will come, and soon. No, a simple remembrance of a day that almost seems trivial in comparison to what has transpired in the nation since, but at the time was as unimaginable a tragedy as the attacks that followed fifteen years later. NASA had been our best shining example of what America could accomplish. NASA fulfilled a dream of a President now resting in Arlington and with it, renewed our nation's spirit and soothed the aching emtpiness of the loss of that President and others, countless others, in the ensuing years.
That innocence, torn away by the hurricane-force winds of nickle-and-dime funding of space efforts since man walked on the moon, could never return. We dare not dream anymore, since those dreams are so easily destroyed by short-sighted gorillas.
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