9.11: the day that changed the world

"We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes...we're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though - peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it...

Some people think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong..

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause. Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. Did you want to tear us apart?

You just brought us together.

-- Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald

sept 11 2001 - the nine o'clock hour: the towers are falling

sept 12 2001 - it happened: 24 hours later

sept 13 2001 - and on the third day: no rest

sept 14 2001 - finding one, while others still search

sept 14 2001 - what now then: looking forward

sept 14 2001 - enter the president

sept 15 2001 - remembering what is impossible to forget

sept 15 2001 - another day, a heightened body count

sept 16 2001 - moving on, for those who cannot

sept 17 2001 - at weeks end, letting go

 

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