there, hundreds, maybe thousands of people in our town of tyler -- and i knew it was going on in longview and all over east texas. people came out to the town square and they prayed together. and they were not about to let any court -- no court would have had the nerve to tell america on 9/12, you have no right to pray in public. they wouldn't have had the right to say that on 9/12, 2001. so we were praying together as citizens out there. we sang hymns. we sang "amazing grace" and "god bless america." hat is go god bless america? " we held hands as people sang this. people did this all over america on 9/12, 2001. and as i looked around among all those people, my american iends, there was not a hyphenated in the group. we had all origins, races, i mean all kinds of groups represented, but we were americans. there were no euro, african-american, asian-americans, irish-americans. there were americans and we stood together, we sang together, we prayed together. and there was no mess out there. we were together, one people. as that great speech given by senator obama pointed out, there shouldn't be a red america, blue america, black america