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Why we should remember 9/11 By JAY AMBROSE Scripps Howard News Service Thursday, September 06, 2007 Let's quit making a big deal out of 9/11, some are saying as the sixth anniversary rolls around, and maybe you disagree as I do, but hold your arguments. A recent event speaks louder than our words could. It occurred in Germany, where police arrested three Islamic-fascists who had cruelty up their sleeves. They had their own recognition of 9/11 planned, but no reading of the names of the 3,000 who died in that day's attacks, no families joining to pray for the victims,...

It would not have occurred to me, as it did to young Nat Heatwole, to bring box cutters onto an airplane just to see if I could get away with it. Even if I wanted to be useful, as Heatwole is claiming, I have the problem of sounding the alarms every time I've gone to the airport in the past two years. The metal eyelets on my shoes have sounded the beepers. Heatwole, a junior at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., said he went through normal security checks at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Sept. 14 and at Raleigh-Durham on Sept...

Truth and ConsequencesBy Tammy Bruce FrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 Eunice Stone is a true American. Her actions prove how responsible we are when it comes to how we view our neighbors. Stone, you'll recall, is the woman is called authorities after hearing three men of Arab descent laugh about September 11 and make comments that indicated a terrorist threat. Here's what Ms. Stone, a 44 year-old mother and nurse from Cartersville, Georgia, said to reporters about what she heard at a restaurant on September 12, 2002: "At first, you know, I just went ahead with my breakfast," she said....