Sometimes our leniency and open boarders are seen as a weakness when truly therein lies our nations foundation. These are the people who believe the freedom we offer to our citizens goes hand in hand with the disrespect we face from terrorism. Others say, the United States is not charged with being the parent- just a united front. Frank Bruni captures the voice of many American people in his article "The Lesson Of Boston". The Boston bombing was a sorrowful lesson, there are many people who will read this article and feel anger and sadness, but why? Is that his purpose in writing this article? Probably not entirely but when you speak of what many American's see as our freedom that we have worked for, fought for, and died for being taken advantage of it pulls at the heartstrings. Frank Bruni's main point is that without freedom this would not be America and, yes, this is a great nation, but it is as he puts it "imperfect".