Recap by Kaydee

One Life to Live Recap for Thursday, July 4, 2002

Hello, all!  Happy Independence Day!!

Since today's episode took a break from the regular storylines, the recap I submit to you will serve only as a mention of who participated in the musical. However, as all of you who have been following my recaps have come to know...

I NEVER DO THINGS TRADITIONALLY, and today folks, I am not about to start. So welcome to a day of song from the show, and then join me in WKAYDEE-TV's Independence Day tribute, which I am dedicating especially to all of you, and my super-special, WAY cool editor, Ms. Katherine Thurston. I am attempting to make this day special with some outright comedy here, and a few very serious tributes to what makes this day so special to our country..so be kind. I welcome your feedback on this issue, again, my new e-mail address for feedback and discussions is:
http://KaydeesHouse@aol.com. And now, part one, the recap:

Come on along, I'll take you to, the lullaby of Statesville's Broadway!
Ha ha!

The Superbroom on Broadway! Who would have thought?? But it was entertaining, folks! Loonsey lead the mass of prison guards, (including my favorite guard whose name I never remember), in a day of Prison Laundry Room song and dance.

Included in this gutsy version of La Cage Aux Folles, and bear with me as I try mention all of them individually, were:

The Holdens: (Hee-hee), Psycho Pal Perkins, Hefty Tilly, (imagine HER in a tutu!), The Llanview Commish, The Mannings, The Vega boys, Keri, I think Rae-Ray, Renee, the attorneys, (Buchanan-Gannon-Rappaport), Superbroom Mini-Me Jen, (that one's for you, JoAnn!) and most of the rest of the town.

Despite my trademark jesting about these characters, today's episode, as with those of Live Week, showed the never-ending talents, both hidden and recognized, of not only the regular stars but of those who act in supporting roles. I mean, who would have thought that Ms. Prison Guard Lady could sing AND dance?

I've said it before and I stand by it, OLTL rocks!! The cast can deliver soul-branding performances without rehearsals, they can sing and dance, and have you bopping and finger-popping, when all along we viewers thought of them as the characters we love to hate, love and wait for Kaydee to come up with a smart remark about their really DUMB actions!! Ha ha!

But not today, folks. They gave us some more light on this very special July 4th, and I surely hope that those who hold this particular day special on a different level, had a chance to smile.

Okay part two: Kaydee's Independence Day tribute:

Ten months ago, some heartless, soulless, scum-of-the-earth, puke-inducing, COWARDS, (for lack of a better word that really describes how I feel about them and that I would be allowed to say on the internet), put into motion a plan they'd been working on forever to attack our country. I especially say this to New York and to Washington, D.C., only because the attacks took place there, not because the rest of the nation isn't suffering as well. Please know that.

I am a New Yorker, born and raised. I also was a former worker in the WTC, who had friends still employed there, with friends who lost relatives there, one of them the brother of my co-poster on the Soapnet Message Boards and my friend, Kammi Mullan. Her brother Michael was a firefighter who lost his life trying to save others. My heart and prayers are with you and your family every day, Kammi.

I am a mother, whose child had just started her first week of Kindergarten that year and seven days later, had to be picked up from school in the middle of the day by her distraught mom and her three younger siblings and 4-year-old cousin in tow. A mother who had to desperately try to hold back tears and explain that her daddy may not be able to make it home because an explosion took place (and destroyed the two buildings that she loved to see whenever we drove into Manhattan to pick up her father from work), just a few blocks away from his restaurant.

That afternoon, my four children, my nephew and I spent our time, trying to avoid the endless broadcasts and repeated showings of the plane crashing into the towers and the collapses of the towers, trying desperately to get through to our loved ones through blocked telephone lines, and speaking to my sister while we tried to assure her that her missing husband, who had called her twice via cell phone, (once to tell her that he was running out of the building, and again to tell her that he was outside trying to keep running away from the building) that although she hadn't heard from him since then and 12 hours had passed, he wasn't dead.

I shared these experiences with you because I am leading up to this...

This Independence Day, starting with OLTL's special episode, which I am honored to have been on duty to recap, and ending with the spectacular display of fireworks that went off without a terrorist hitch, restored my faith in the power of America's resilience and patriotism.

To see how we all bonded and continued our tradition bigger and better than ever in the face of continued threats and fear, made me prouder than ever to be an American and a New Yorker.

I pray that we can continue to show these low-life cowards that through togetherness, laughter, as OLTL brought us in today's episode, and I hope I bring in my recaps, love and endurance, we can not be defeated.

I want to conclude by saying thank you to those who fought for us and lost their lives, both here and in Washington, D.C., and I want to thank those who wake up every morning in the Middle East and go to sleep every night to continue to try and save us.

Since these people have made and are still making the brave choice to fight for the liberty and freedom of life as we know it, I ask you, America, to please do your part as a civilian to help in this fight. Remember that all people aren't terrorists, despite their ethnic background, remember to try to help someone any way that you can, remember to HOPE, always, for the best for our futures, and remember to do your best every day to achieve the best future.

We may not have AK-47 machine guns in our hands, or qualify to be military soldiers, but we hold the power to make the world a better place with our way of thinking and the way we teach our children to think. That is how we are soldiers, and THAT is what our country depends on to help in this fight against those cowards who spend their time planning things that keep us in fear for our children's lives as well as our own. Thank you for taking the time to read my personal points of view.

From me and my family to all of you, Happy Independence Day.

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Recap written by Kimberley Barnett, © Copyright by Katherine Thurston & 2002.