"Now is the hour of decision, the time to revive the spirit of our ancestors, was a common adventure for all men. The first man on Mars can be done in the early eighties ... "
These words of George Mueller, a NASA manager, summarized the mood of the American people after getting the greatest technological achievement history, something which was only possible thanks to the union of all the political, economic, scientific and ideological nation. We see images and read books in those days, and we feel that children belong to a distant and lost, when hope could knock down any wall and perseverance to break any rock. The sad thing is not to recall it, but see what's left of everything today. Came the seventies, and Americans again lost innocence (people can only lose it once, but societies do cyclically) this time in Vietnam, but when they nailed their flag on the moon and took a decade and being nailed nailing bayonets at the hands of Charlie . They say that American society is a child, and the mature European and elegant, perhaps that's why the Americans prevailed and still do. The enemy was clear to the eighties, was strong, large, and was on another site. But that changed, the enemy lost power and we all rejoice because we knew it was better to balance the fear of what would come next. The triumph of Reagan, Thatcher, Wojtyla, Walesa and millions more like bring peace, but the new enemy and became strong in hatred, ignorance and paid by the misery, and this time was strong and weak, big and small, and was far, near, inside and outside, everywhere. Then came 2001, and some rockets or missiles were not going to the moon, they reached their destination early and vertical. And that itself was a big step for humanity back, but certainly big: the power of hundreds of fans with poison instead of blood, changed the world more than the power of millions for the progress it had made 32 years earlier.
September 11, 2009. The world remains what it has always been: a game board that men should love and kill with the help of their superior intelligence, but his instincts are lower. New York remembers its dead 2,751 religious services, light towers, concerts and even a career in which you can customize the dorsal to say in memory of who you run. The President will speak and all his people will make the speech. America will never forget those who rest in peace. Within six months also celebrate this anniversary, there will an act of surreptitiously in Madrid, which ones and which will disown another, and the bodies of the trains will fly from left to right and from right to left, old and elegant Spain. But not in New York is love and brotherhood all that glitters, business is business , and if the Empire State was built in less than a year and two months (those were different times), Ground Zero is still a lot in the no budget to raise the new towers planned for more than memory and pride cries ask to be re-raise the Twin Towers as they were. Build what you can build, always remember that although it seemed that everything would change in 1969, was in 2001. And since you never cease to be those who dream of returning to crash aircraft into the heart of the city, you know, at least, to be superseded by the man who will fulfill its destiny, for those who succeed to put his foot on Mars and beyond.
La Voz, Jerez, September 8, 2009. Although in the ass of the world, some here do not forget.
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