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...mean denial. So it was easy last week to find people--even rescue workers at Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve and despair; the lines between prudence and paranoia blur. A three-year-old boy in Spotsylvania, Va., fatally shot himself with the gun his father had just brought home to protect his family...
...kind of war, it had an old sort of start. In the places where soldiers and sailors live--in Norfolk, Va.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; in a hundred other towns of the Republic and far beyond its shores--the rhetoric of impending battle was rendered into the humdrum details of military life. Bills were paid; kit bags packed; wives, husbands and children hugged. Patriotism hung in the air, as palpable as the first chills of fall; flags sprouted on a million lapels and fluttered from a thousand taxicabs in a wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from...
...scurrying cockroaches; the effort will prove expensive, fruitless and frustrating. Instead the U.S. must take a new approach and wage war on those nations, one at a time, that harbor terrorists. Only by deterring nations from supporting evil will we ever be able to starve evil. MARK PUTNAM Alexandria, Va...
...With bomb-sniffing dogs roaming the terminals, airline personnel asking pointed questions and armed guards holding machine guns, taking off will invariably take a lot longer. "If they don't open this bag and probe it, I'll be worried," said a traveler, Paul Pereda, an electrician from Woodbridge, Va...
...began his medical career in 1995, when he graduated from the Marshall University School of Medicine, located in his hometown of Huntington, W. Va...