[nicollo]

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.

Is that for real? That view won't prevail. Please say it ain't so.

[esmith]

It took me a while to find the spot where I read it, but it
was in Peggy Noonan's book, What I Saw At The Revolution.
Ms. Noonan said she rode her bike at twilight behind the mists of the truck spraying DDT.