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Peggy Noonan: The Fall After Sept. 11
Opinion Journal ^ | 08/30/2002 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 08/29/2002 9:08:12 PM PDT by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NEW YORK--This is written for you to read when you come back from vacation, either this weekend or next week if that applies. So just park it if you like, and come back.

I want only to say: Welcome back.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: peggynoonanlist
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1 posted on 08/29/2002 9:08:12 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Howlin; Miss Marple; summer; mombonn; Sabertooth; beckett; BlueAngel; JohnHuang2; ...
Pinging the Peggy list.
2 posted on 08/29/2002 9:12:35 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
?????
3 posted on 08/29/2002 9:12:43 PM PDT by scab4faa
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To: Pokey78
I would walk along the streets and think of the old song from The Fantasticks: "Try to remember the kind of September when life was an ember about to billow."

I often thought of that song myself.

Another amazing piece of writing from Noonan! Peggy rarely disappoints!

4 posted on 08/29/2002 9:18:40 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
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To: Pokey78; Clemenza
I have been home in Brooklyn the past few weeks.

Brooklyn? Why the hell would anybody want to live there. Oh yeah, I rememember now. The bread. They have great bread there. Makes sense to me....???????

5 posted on 08/29/2002 9:25:45 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: JulieRNR21
Interesting piece, and hit me deeply personally considering I work five blocks north of GZ and saw things I care never to discuss.
6 posted on 08/29/2002 9:29:14 PM PDT by lavrenti
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the post and the ping.
7 posted on 08/29/2002 9:31:00 PM PDT by wife-mom
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To: lavrenti
Interesting piece, and hit me deeply personally considering I work five blocks north of GZ and saw things I care never to discuss.

Being so close would certainly impact you even more deeply. I saw it all via TV; nonetheless it was horrible to behold.

Just recently I watched a CNN Perspective about the attack and began to feel the same emotions I felt while it was happening. We will never forget.

8 posted on 08/29/2002 9:35:30 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
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To: lavrenti
I watched a TV show tonight about the widows. They were pregnant that Day. Now, they're just widows with new babies. As I wept, all I could say to myself was, "It's not fair!"

Hang in there.
9 posted on 08/29/2002 9:37:07 PM PDT by Humidston
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To: Pokey78
Noonan is terrific. I got the feeling of Autumn from that piece. I love Autumn.
10 posted on 08/29/2002 9:42:30 PM PDT by joyce11111
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To: Pokey78
She never fails to bring tears to my eyes! I just LOVE the way she writes; so conversationally!
11 posted on 08/29/2002 9:45:04 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: PJ-Comix
I have been home in Brooklyn the past few weeks.

Brooklyn? Why the hell would anybody want to live there. Oh yeah, I rememember now. The bread. They have great bread there. Makes sense to me....???????

Actually, its the Egg Creams at Hinches that keep me here. :-)

12 posted on 08/29/2002 9:47:43 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: SuziQ
Peggy's a beautiful person, and it just flows out of her fingers and into the words she writes.

She captures the pent-up feelings and thoughts of her American family, and you can tell she cries, and rages, and laughs over what she writes.

She's our seer, in a way.

13 posted on 08/29/2002 9:58:09 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: SuziQ
"I just LOVE the way she writes; so conversationally!"

She's your mother.

Talking to you, telling you how she thinks and feels about things. And asking you to think about them, too...

14 posted on 08/29/2002 9:58:54 PM PDT by okie01
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To: Clemenza
Egg Creams? Let me tell you what happened when I was a little kid. We were living in West Virgina at the time and a friend of my father's, Henry, came out from Brooklyn or some other NY place to visit. They were at a roadside cafe and Henry asked the waitress at the counter to make him an egg cream. She looked confused so Henry told her the ingredients for the egg cream. Then Henry made the mistake of going to the bathroom. My father then told the cook how to prepare the egg for the egg cream. When Henry returned to the counter, he found his glass of "egg cream".....with a fried egg lying over the top of the glass.
15 posted on 08/29/2002 9:59:38 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Bet it's Brooklyn Heights...any takers?.....probably right above the river.
16 posted on 08/29/2002 10:01:32 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy
Bet it's Brooklyn Heights.

Brooklyn Heights? Where Peggy Noonan lives or where Clemenza lives? Maybe we should follow the trail of the bread smell and that will provide the answer.

17 posted on 08/29/2002 10:03:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Pokey78
She makes references to last year's 'lost autumn'.

My experience was exactly the opposite.

The sky never seemed so clear, the sun never as warm as it did to me starting in August of last year.

And on September 11 the sky was crystal clear, and it seemed to remain that way for another 6 weeks here, well past the normal start of winter.

I felt like I was being shown something really important, something worth remembering.

Strange that that's how I remember that time.

18 posted on 08/29/2002 10:31:33 PM PDT by IncPen
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Click on my profile, I live in Bay Ridge, former home of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Tony Manero and countless Irish, Greek and (now) Arab and Russian Americans.

Being that Peggy is a writer, I would guess Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights.

19 posted on 08/29/2002 10:31:57 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, Pokey =^)
20 posted on 08/29/2002 10:43:46 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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