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Congress sings "Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum" at first Talk Like A Patriot Day. On September 11, 2001, America changed temporarily. The terrorist attacks that led to the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a heroic effort to stop an attack that ended in a farm field in Somerset County, Pa., made Americans stop and think about words like sacrifice, duty, and country. Until the first season of 24 premiered on Nov 6, 2001. Now, Sept. 11 has been officially designated "Talk Like A Patriot Day." This year's celebration was headed by the Democratic-led government and featured several empty gestures and insincere platitudes to the anniversary of the attack. "Arrr... I feel all resolved today, me matey," said Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada, for right now) , who sported an American Ffag patch on his eye for the occasion. "We be all 'Mericans! Even the scalawags who attacked us. I be re-reading them their Miranda rights, arrr." Pirate wench and Speaker of Ye Olde House Nancy Pelosi led the merriment at the "Water Board The Plank" festivities. "If ye be not a good American and divide up yer spoils with the unfortunate louts of the country, then we send ya into the drink with a little taste of waterboardin'," said Pelosi. "Not that I was at any time aware that water boarding was being used as a form of information gathering by our intelligence forces. Arrr." Barack Obama, cap'n of the ship, took time out to talk like a patriot to America's school kids. "Now, youngters, when ye be goin' back to yer ma and pa be sure to observe what they say and do for unpatriotic behavior, such as speakin' ill of government run health care," said Obama. "There be no mutiny on me watch, I can assure ya of that!" Festive costumes and decorations are another intrinsic part of Talk Like A Patriot Day. During the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, Americans wore little flag lapel pins and put flag bumper stickers on their cars. Don Immus, a professor of political studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said he breaks out the ole jolly Roy Rogers for Talk Like A Pirate Day at his office. "'Tis a beautiful thing to be seeing the ole stars and bars flappin' in the breeze of the air conditionin'" said Immus. "And rememberin' the many wars of imperialism fought so's I could preach ta impressionable minds about the many sins of this country and the inability of the free market system to fairly distribute me treasure, arr."
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