Damon Wyckoff--by night a guitarist at Forever Goldrush, a rock band in Sacramento, Calif.--said the attacks had left him "freaked out" at first. A day later, though, at his job behind a coffeehouse counter, the shaggy-haired 26-year-old sounded almost Pattonesque. "It's weird," he said, "but for the first time I guess I really feel like an American. And I can suddenly identify with all those teenagers back during World War II who said, 'Hell yeah, I'll fight for my country.' " (WSJ On-Line Best of the Web Today BY JAMES TARANTO AND IRA STOLL) |