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Yesterday’s events share the same sense of violation that Pearl Harbor caused: the frustration when distinctly American places are damaged...
...comparing yesterday’s events to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, we can remember a time that we fear, but when we also had a strange sense of pride as well. After sustaining enormous damage in Pearl Harbor, America mobilized, entered World War II and molded itself into the international protector of democracy and freedom...
...consequences of yesterday’s attacks will not be like those from Pearl Harbor. For after Pearl Harbor, America entered a war and fought to defend the values that we still respect today. Tuesday’s terrorist attack gives us no opportunity to struggle for that in which we believe...
Indeed, I don’t even know who they are, or why they acted in the inhumane way that they did. The only similarity between World War II, Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2001 is the fraternity I feel growing among me and my classmates. Tuesday evening hundreds of people gathered in Harvard Yard for a vigil for the dead and their friends and family. The last time I have seen so many people gather so silently was when Nelson Mandela addressed the University in 1998. Yesterday evening, we stood together listening to the Memorial Church bell toll...
...cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let?s have rage. What?s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury?a ruthless indignation that doesn?t leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J. ? Eli?n ? Chandra ?) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, ?Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn?t he, about modern technology...