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From the Bellingham Herald, Sept. 23, 2001 Soon after the blasts destroyed the World Trade Center towers, 17-year-old Eliza Gauger of Bellingham sat down in front of her computer and, sobbing, drew "Mommie Liberty," a political cartoon depicting a young, maternal Statue of Liberty, cradling a baby wrapped in the American flag with one hand and holding a revolver in the other. "Mommie Liberty" is glaring. "The most dangerous place in the world is between a mother and her children," reads the caption. Gauger, raised on her parents' belief that the Vietnam War was "the stupidest thing that has ever...