E-mailer Ken sends these observations from a Sunday trip to Legoland California.

Took the family down to Legoland in Carlsbad today, and had a slightly surreal encounter in Miniland — the land of Lego replicas of America’s big cities and famous landmarks.
The Lego Manhattan skyline already includes a mock up of the Freedom Tower in place of the World Trade Center. As my son chased the model trains around, I noticed that standing right there at the Freedom Tower were two women in full bhurka (one in black, but the other in a very striking medium blue over tan); a bald, bearded man of Middle Eastern appearance [and attire]…and a small group of children who looked like they all just walked out of Old Navy.
Now, Carlsbad is the next-door neighbor of Camp Pendleton, which is the principal West Coast base of the United States Marines. Camp Pendleton has shipped off thousands of troops to Iraq, not all of whom have come home alive or in one piece. The Marines appeared to be well represented at Legoland today. How might this scene have played out in your typical network or Hollywood drama?
Well, nobody accosted these obviously Islamic folks. No one stepped forward to bait them in what should have been the shadow of the Twin
Towers: “Mighty proud of yourselves, aren’t you?” They walked through, just another satisfied Legoland family.
Of course, this is as it should be, but it certainly brings home the difference between America and those who would destroy her. Not that it would ever happen, but just imagine the situation reversed, with an American family in tank tops, shorts and sandals strolling around the Taliban equivalent of Legoland (I dunno, the stoning ampitheatre maybe?). Instead of passing by unmolested as tourists, they’d probably stand a good chance of starring in some jihadi’s internet snuff video.