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...reason it is possible not to mourn Sept. 10, to believe that the days ahead may be both more painful and more precious, is that there is evidence we are willing to do the hard work by choice, not just because we have to. And so the year can end, and the fires go out at last at ground zero, and Liberty Island reopens, and soldiers guarding the airport at Kandahar drape mine tape on tumbleweed for a Christmas tree and raise a huge American flag, inscribed with the names of slain men and women...
...been on the job for two decades, and Michael Cammarata, just nine weeks in the department, who had a poster of the Twin Towers over his bed at home and a sealed envelope in his night table to be opened only if anything ever happened to him. "Don't mourn me," it instructed. "This was the career I chose." They mourned John Heffernan, a guitar player in a punk-rock band, and Eddie Day, who would slap a smiley-face sticker on the helmet of anyone who seemed even remotely down. Matt Rogan, a quiet man who spent...
...badges, those who were simply running for themselves, who intrigued me most. As they looked towards the gulf of empty space in the skyline, their faces were marked with a similar expression of sorrow. For those without the grief of losing loved ones, what is it that we mourn...
...President, shop; now comes the license to argue again--the "music of democracy," one House member mused last week. It was almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would do anything to defend it, and that includes doing their jobs, which is to disagree over how best to do this. Scholars argue over whether it is their job to try to understand...
Like all Americans, I grieve for the victims and their families. At the same time, I am concerned about the spirit of vengeance that threatens to make a horrific situation even worse. Each innocent person who gets caught in the cross fire will have loved ones left behind to mourn as we are mourning now. We must be aware that by perpetuating the cycle of violence, we will certainly be breeding a new generation of hatred among the mourners. It is crucial that we don't act out of anger, that we pursue not vengeance but justice. DICK BAY Novato...