Peggy Noonan: September 11 Today (21 months ago)

Opinion Journal ^ | 06/11/03 | Peggy Noonan

[Pokey78]

Looking back, and around, 21 months after the day that changed (nearly) everything.

Seems like a long time ago; seems like yesterday. Actually we're in that awkward period of historical memory in which it's too soon to see 9/11 as History Channel fodder and too late to feel it freshly. It was 21 months ago; life moves on; we don't talk about "Where were you?" anymore.

[Pokey78]

Pinging Peggy's list.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, Pokey :)

[Pokey78]

Good evening King!

[JohnHuang2]

Peggy Noonan Mega ping!

[JohnHuang2]

G'evening backatya, friend *Smiles*

[mitchbert]

Peggy Noonan Ping, eh!

[Jeff Head]

too late to feel it freshly. It was 21 months ago; life moves on

NEVER, NEVER FORGET

[esmith]

Did you know that in hillary's book she tells the story of
how, when she was a child, her and her brothers used to run
down the street after the trucks spraying DDT and play in the
mist. That line was taken from a book Peggy Noonan wrote about her own childhood.

[nopardons]

Thanks for the PING, John. :-)

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome :)

[Ruth A.]

Thanks for the Peggy ping. She is fantastically on the head as usual.

Do you have proof positive that Hillary plagerized? When I read the excerpt in a review, it did strick me as too genuine without any Hillery! leftist morallity message. I think a citation (book and page) would go a long ways in the right hands.

[Tamzee]

Thank you most kindly :-)

A truly incredible column, especially the way she compared the firefighters to the employees working in the WTC. What a fantastic explanation of the intended slaughter of our helpless and the way American spirit of courage and sacrifice triumphed that day... and has carried us since :-)

Again, thanks for the ping, mitchbert... but now I have to go through Peggy-withdrawal all over again LOL Written anything yourself lately? That might carry me through ;-)

[A Citizen Reporter]

Thanks for the ping.

What strikes me as interesting, is that in all of the hoopla about hillary!'s book, hillary as the senator from NY speaks very little about 9/11 and how that affected the people that she "represents". Peggy has brought us back to that, only because Peggy actually lives there. Peggy is NOT the senator from NY......

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the ping!

Peggy is wonderful, as usual!

They had better include a statue of a fireman in the WTC memorial. It'll be a crime if they don't.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[JohnHuang2]

Well said, friend.

[JohnHuang2]

You're welcome :)

[beckett]

And there is the declaration of the organizations of World Trade Center families-of-victims that there should not be a statue of the firemen at the WTC memorial site. Three hundred forty-three of them died that day, but to commemorate their sacrifice would be "hierarchical." They want it clear that no one was better than anyone else, that all alike were helpless, victims.

But that is not true; it is the opposite of the truth. The men and women working in the towers were there that morning, and died. The firemen and rescue workers--they weren't there, they went there. They didn't run from the fire, they ran into the fire. They didn't run down the staircase, they ran up the staircase. They didn't lose their lives, they gave them.

Beautiful writing and a masterful rebuttal to those ungenerous enough to deny the firefighters a place of honor at the memorial.

They ran into the fire

[ladyinred]

"It doesn't show up in the polls," a Democratic legislator told me in 1997, explaining why President Clinton did not seriously address it.

This is his real legacy.

I am appalled to read that the WTC families don't want a statue of the firemen at the memorial. My God, I can't believe this. I had such hope that this had changed this country. I was wrong wasn't I?