Tag: September 11
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A surfeit of adult babies
We’re coming up on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. It was an unwanted seminal moment for us Americans, including me. I was working by the National Mall at the time and recall the smoke rising from the Pentagon (where I had worked until 1998) and the otherwise surreal picture perfect day. It caused me to…
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The Great Muslim War and what the United States should do about it
I was with a group of people discussing politics last night. Principally, we talked about the war in Syria and what the United States should do, if anything. It’s a sticky widget, all right. I don’t envy President Obama’s role as The Decider of this problem. The more we talked about it the more we…
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September 11, 2001 memories
Here, slightly edited, is an email I sent out to family later in the day on September 11, 2001, written after I had a chance to collect my wits. Add it to the collective memory archive for that traumatic date. I thank you all for your concern for my safety. In the back of my…
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Threats from within on the Fifth Anniversary of September 11th
Has it been five years? The date seems too prominent in my memory for it to be half a decade away already. For most of us Americans, even if we did not live in New York or Washington, the events of September 11, 2001 left a permanent impression in our minds. Move over Kennedy Assassination…
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