{"id":1210,"date":"2011-05-02T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:09","slug":"thank-you-again-mr-pitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/thank-you-again-mr-pitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Again, Mr. Pitts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, I didn\u2019t get a lot of sleep Sunday night after hearing news that the world\u2019s most wanted criminal, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9-11 and dozens of other terrorist acts across the world, \u00a0had been shot dead in a raid of his million dollar hide-out in Pakistan. The last thing binLaden saw in this life was an American Navy Seal pointing a gun at his head inviting him to surrender and when he refused, received a bullet in his eye.<\/p>\n

As I watched news coverage of the spontaneous gatherings of grateful Americans cheering and waving U.S.flags celebrating binLaden\u2019s demise, I was taken back nearly ten years to September 12th<\/sup>, 2001; one day after the attacks on America. My boss, Mark Antonitis called me into his office to show me a copy of a column brilliantly written by Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n

\"Leonard

Leonard Pitts Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n

It perfectly described the feelings of Americans in the wake of that horrific day; sadness, anger, fear, and an incredible determination that the perpetrators of such madness and pain,will get theirs eventually, no matter how long it takes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like you to record these words, Mark said, we\u2019ll add some video and run it on all the newscasts.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s pretty long,\u201d I said.\u201d \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ll make the time,\u201d was Mark\u2019s reply. \u00a0Viewer response to me reading Mr. Pitt\u2019s inspired narrative was immediate and overwhelming. I looked up his column again last night. It is still amazingly inspirational..especially now.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d care to read it yourself,\u00a0 here’s the link: http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2008\/09\/11\/681912\/leonard-pitts-jr-well-go-forward.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00a0also see that Keloland.com has posted the video we did in 2001.\u00a0 Here’s the link: http:\/\/www.keloland.com\/videoarchive\/index.cfm?VideoFile=091101lund<\/a><\/p>\n

Suddenly I feel like fixing the broken bracket on our house so I can hang up a brand new American Flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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