In the same issue, NEWSWEEK give us a 22 year-old Rachel Newman confession. She came to New York three years ago to be “a guitar musician in rebellion” against the establishment, like her mother, a ’69 Woodstock veteran. She had herself tattooed, crying: “I would have told you I was a musician, a poet, an artist,… a woman, a lesbian, and a Jew”. That morning, stepped out of the shower in her Brooklyn apartment to watch the second plane barrel into the South Tower. She confess: “In that moment, the world as I had known it was redefined. Weeks ago all I could think of was how to write a good rap… Now is the time to talk with God about

my soul and find the meaning of the life because everything has changed.

- “Truth is relative”, says our educators.

I grew-up among the sentiments of everlasting values in life, despite my former country’s communist ideology. And I was confused when I stepped on American soil in 1999 because everything seemed so materialistic. And I was sad, and I say to my self: “Here people are crazy for money, fun and appearance; having money, having fun and looking cool”. But the true values of America I reach now. The post 9/11 era is different from I find in the beginning of my American dream way. The tragedy helped the new Columbus I am, to rediscover this great country: a deep culture, a strong patriotism, and the true religion of peace and freedom as Jesus invited his disciples to do: “Love your Talibans”.

Yes, everything has changed. This refrain has become as common in the post 9/11 world as the Dow Jones level for a broker. For decades, Americans have been paralyzed by intellectual, moral, and religious relativism, about our own history and institutions. We have tried to be multicultural, as if we had no culture of our own. Exhibitions of fait and patriotism have been embarrassing, politically incorrect, and primitive. But now that our nation has been attacked, this is changing. Americans are seeing that we have a civilization worth defending. And America displays a fresh look to the world, a new “New America”.

Perhaps religion was that aria most affected. Before the Worlds Trade Center’s crash, this mode

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