Last week, following a special two-hour Fox News Sunday, we were

inundated with e-mails praising Tony Snow’s moving commentary. For

those who may have missed it, we’ve transcribed his inspiring words

below:

“Good and evil almost never express themselves as harshly and clearly as

they did Tuesday morning. People we don’t know slaughtered people we do, and

they did it with contemptuous calm. Yet, even as clouds of dust and smoke rose from

the rubble, even as family members tortured by hope and doubt took to the streets

with pictures and pleas, even as mobs celebrated in Gaza, Cairo, and

Baghdad, something shook itself sluggishly to life and that something is

a sense of ourselves. Kindness flourished amid the flames: a couple

carried a disabled man down 68 flights of stairs, a priest crouched to

give last rites as a mighty tower collapsed, and the hand of God closed

above him. A man and woman, their hope gone, held each other and leaped.

A solitary candle, a flag, a tear. These are the tokens of our renewal.

The United States had a spirit before it had a name