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. But I did a Google search that came up with "a peanut butter sandwich with marshmallow creme." I wonder if "fluffernutter" will eventually rank up there with "spot on"? br> -- Nelson Ward br> Ribera, New Mexico /p>

Many Americans need to grow up and get a grip on themselves in their reacting to movies like United 93. We hear cute, sympathetic catchphrases like, "It's too soon, we are not healed yet, and the wounds are still open." Come on America, this isn't the stuff that has made the United States the nation that it is today.

This victimizing, Prozac-popping mentality didn't create the Declaration of Independence, didn't win WWI and WWII. This nation was created out of strong wills, and religious values and the typical American attitude of "get it done no matter what or who gets in the way."

Americans have freed millions upon millions of the world's citizens from tyranny and enslavement from murderous regimes. We have fed those who have been hungry; we have treated those who have been sick, we have provided shelter where there was none, and we have replaced despair with hope and self-respect. And this wasn't done by whining on the physiatrist's couch "it's just too soon." It was done with good old American determination, grit, and spirit that is the hallmark of being an American, and I'll be damned if I let anyone take that away from me or my fellow Americans.

p>A little advice for Americans who think movies like United 93 is too soon: get out of the pit of despair and self-imposed misery, stand tall, and stare this nation's threat square in the eyes, accept it for truly what it is and defeat it. Bottom line: just be an American like the millions of Americans who have preceded you that defeated this nation's enemies. Rest assured that you won't be alone because I'll be there right beside you. That is what being an American is. br> -- Melvin L. Leppla , SSgt. USMC Retired /p>

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