Discover What We're Really Made Of

When I was in the fifth grade, NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery, the first shuttle launch since the Challenger tragedy. In the middle of class, classmate Craig Thornton and co. stormed into homeroom from the computer lab with his arms in the air, shouting, "Discovery made it!"

Fast forward almost 20 years. After the Columbia tragedy, Discovery was again the first to travel back into space. It's so encouraging to know that in addition to having the world's biggest economy and mightiest military, we have an equal amount of courage and persistence.

Take a look at our daily dose of sanity that most of us willingly seek out - terror attacks, suicide bombs, the Axis of Evil, nuclear weapons, trade decificts, budget deficits, left wing nuts, right wing extremists, Dubya, Clinton, oil, ethanol, hurricanes, heat waves, kidnappings, obesity, tobacco, drug companies, tax increases, tax cuts (who got them and why), and global warming.

Yet us Yanks still have the gall to strap our bravest and brightest patriots to the back of a rocket to learn what's beyond our borders.

We just keep going, as we've done so many times throughout our history.

Wherever UBL and Al-Zarqawi are hiding, I hope they get word of what we did today and realize that they have no idea who they're messing with. Hopefully all Americans will feel the same.