As soon as she was identified as a victim of the Boston bombings, Lingzi Lu was remembered at Boston University. Her friends placed flowers at the school’s Marsh Plaza in honor of the statisitics grad student from China.
Flowers, a symbol of both life and mourning, it turns out also symbolize another important value we must not forget in the wake of the Boston tragedy.
Start by holding up a penny. If you don’t remember what those looked like, it’s the only dark coin in the bunch. On the back of it, you’ll find three words sandwiched under the heading “United States of America,” and on top of that building known as the Lincoln Memorial.
It’s a lot of information on a coin that is too often taken for granted.
The three words are in Latin and pack a punch: E Pluribus Unum.
English translation, “Out of many, one.”
It is the basis of our American pluralistic system and the strength upon which we build this diverse nation.
