Let's face it ... there hasn't been a lot
of good news in America in the past year. Many were talking last night that this miracle
of bravery and heroism ... this shining example of Yankee ingenuity and teamwork ... may
be the impetus to turn attitudes around.
The excitement was certainly riveting.
First the good news, at 10:15PM EDT, that the drilling had broken through to the
chamber containing the trapped miners. That was followed almost immediately by news of
communication with the miners via a telephone dropped down the air shaft.
Then the unimaginable happened. All nine
miners were alive ... and in reasonably good shape! When you considered the circumstances,
it seemed impossible.
My friend and I let out yelps of joy ...
cried tears of thanksgiving ... and for the next few hours forgot about every little
care in the world.
For the first time, rescue officials
allowed live television from the drilling site as the miners were raised by a crane
from the hole. One by one they rose, covered in coal black, soaking wet, in a steel
basket from 240 feet beneath the Pennsylvania countryside ... a landscape that just
last September bore the horrible scar of doomed Flight 93.
This was real life at its best.
Now eight hours since the last miner
was brought to safety, I still feel the giddiness. I have a renewed optimism in
America and what we can accomplish as a team. Suddenly the sour economy and corporate
scandal can't depress me any more.
I witnessed a governor exemplifying
leadership ... one without an agenda ... a politician not running for anything ...
directing all of us on a mission.
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