' And then a message crawled across the bottom of the screen with times the tsunami might hit--9:15, 9:30, 10:00--as the wave could roll north or south toward LA. It was already 8:30 and this didn't seem like muchofa head start.
That's the spirit that led a band of patriots not much older than most of you to take on an empire, to startthis experiment in democracy we call America.