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Peggy Noonan: September 11 Today (21 months ago)
Opinion Journal ^ | 06/11/03 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 06/10/2003 9:05:35 PM PDT by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: peggynoonan; peggynoonanlist; september12era
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1 posted on 06/10/2003 9:05:35 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Howlin; Miss Marple; mombonn; Sabertooth; beckett; BlueAngel; JohnHuang2; *Peggy Noonan list; ...
Pinging Peggy's list.
2 posted on 06/10/2003 9:06:44 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Thanks, Pokey :)
3 posted on 06/10/2003 9:10:16 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Good evening King!
4 posted on 06/10/2003 9:11:20 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78; xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ...

Peggy Noonan Mega ping!


5 posted on 06/10/2003 9:11:49 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Pokey78
G'evening backatya, friend *Smiles*
6 posted on 06/10/2003 9:13:12 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Tamsey
Peggy Noonan Ping, eh!
7 posted on 06/10/2003 9:14:05 PM PDT by mitchbert (Facts are Stubborn Things)
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To: Pokey78; JohnHuang2
too late to feel it freshly. It was 21 months ago; life moves on

NEVER, NEVER FORGET

8 posted on 06/10/2003 9:14:09 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Pokey78
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.
9 posted on 06/10/2003 9:14:13 PM PDT by esmith
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To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the PING, John. :-)
10 posted on 06/10/2003 9:18:09 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Welcome :)
11 posted on 06/10/2003 9:18:51 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: esmith
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.

12 posted on 06/10/2003 9:26:36 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: mitchbert
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 ;-)
13 posted on 06/10/2003 9:30:53 PM PDT by Tamzee ( It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - J. Swift)
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To: JohnHuang2
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......

14 posted on 06/10/2003 9:33:10 PM PDT by A Citizen Reporter
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To: JohnHuang2
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.

15 posted on 06/10/2003 9:34:30 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J.)
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To: firebrand; StarFan; Dutchy; stanz; RaceBannon; Cacique; Clemenza; rmlew; NYC GOP Chick; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘general interest’ ping list.

16 posted on 06/10/2003 9:37:01 PM PDT by nutmeg (Never forget...)
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To: A Citizen Reporter
Well said, friend.
17 posted on 06/10/2003 9:37:01 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: dixiechick2000
You're welcome :)
18 posted on 06/10/2003 9:37:28 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Pokey78
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

19 posted on 06/10/2003 9:39:32 PM PDT by beckett
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To: Pokey78
"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?

20 posted on 06/10/2003 9:40:47 PM PDT by ladyinred
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