Dear Americans: This is How I Felt on 7/13

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Dear Americans,

At 6:48 PM on July 13, my sister and I were chatting about the 1995 movie version of Pride and Prejudice when we were interrupted by an e-mail alert from a church friend. It read: โ€œPray for former President Trump. It appears that he may have been shot at a rally in Butler, PA. I believe he is ok and was rushed off the stage by the secret service detail.โ€

I couldnโ€™t believe it. Please, God, no! I prayed.

Sure, my grandparents talk about when JFK was assassinated; my parents lived through the day Reagan was shot. Yet Iโ€™ve always told myself, Iโ€™ll never live to see that. Iโ€™ve lived through 9/11, the Coronavirus scare, and 10/7, and I thought that was enough history for any young woman. But I had yet to experience the feelings of the nightmare of July 13. I went absolutely numb.

When I saw the pictures (they look like a new version of the Iwo Jima flag raising photo), my first thought checking my emotion was, Maybe itโ€™s just AI. The left wants us to panic; they want to incite a riot. I told myself not to believe it . . . not yet.

My fingers flew over the keyboard as I checked various news platforms. Fox, CBS, Epoch Times, The Daily Caller, The Blazeโ€”they had all grabbed the story. And then I watched the video. When President Trump flinched, so did I.

What particularly struck me was that it was all very undramatic, unlike what happens in the movies. A sunny Saturday in Pennsylvania. The thirteenth of July. Just a speech, a pop, pop, pop, and he ducked. I had just lived through one of the biggest days in historyโ€”when a man in a red ballcap was shot at.

After seeing the video, I was screaming inside, They tried to kill my president! Of course, during that tense moment, I forgot all about Biden, and I forgot all about the November election. I only thought, Heโ€™s my president, and they just tried to kill him!

I could feel the nation, even the worldโ€”everyone on their phones and tablets, taking in the news headlines as fast as they were filed. I felt stillness. I felt universal shock. And I also felt a sense of American togetherness.

Reading the comments on the news articles pouring in, I saw that โ€œjust prayโ€ was most peopleโ€™s reaction. โ€œThank God Trumpโ€™s all right,โ€ they were saying. However, there were a few comments lashing out in hate and spite, which made me dismayed, because we canโ€™t act this way. We canโ€™t give the left a chance to blame us for anything. We canโ€™t let it get to us like this. A president once noted that hate will only destroy us.

We must stay calm. Weโ€™ve got to come together as a strong nation once again, and the assassination attempt is just the thing to show us that. What we need is faith in God, more praying Americans, and a wave of patriotism. We can get good out of this if we only try.

โ€”N. M.

Natalie Morris
Natalie Morris
Natalie Morris began her TTC column in 2021, recently publishing her 50th post. She enjoys writing about issues that affect average Americans (such as herself), as well as U.S. history and culture. She firmly believes that a day in which no writing is done is a day that is wasted.

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