“Memory is a key part of keeping faith in the modern world.”
September 11
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Remembering a schoolmate who died a hero on September 11
The boy I knew so long ago in grammar and high school had died a martyr, an American hero.
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Widowed on 9/11, Patty Fallone never questioned God.
Patty Fallone chose not to blame God when her husband was killed. She chose to make the best of her situation. Every day, she chose to get up every morning and go on living.
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World Trade Center Journal: Part One
From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea
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Painting 9/11
Dan Gheno an artist whose paintings were featured in the 9 11 issue of America recently stopped by America house to offer a reflection about art as a meditation on grief and to discuss the imagery in his work
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Temporary and Timeless: The 9/11 memorials, then and now
The new 9/11 memorial beckons us to immerse ourselves and emerge into a new life.
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What 9/11 can teach us about love, heroism and courage
While national leaders prepared for war, many Americans paused in wonder amid the pain.
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What Can Be Done? What Should Be Done?
To write about Sept. 11, 2001, is to know the paucity of one’s vocabulary and literary skill. The words are so disproportionate to the tragedy that the temptation is to stop trying to describe it. John Paul II condemned it as an unspeakable horror and a dark day in the history of humanity, a t
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World Trade Center Journal: Part Two
Friday, Sept. 14On my second day at the site that the press now calls ground zero, it has become more difficult to gain access, even in a Roman collar. Today at Chelsea Piers, a sports arena turned supply warehouse, I hitch a ride in a huge tractor-trailer with two ironworkers from New Jersey. Becau
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The Editors: We profess that “evil and death do not have the final say.”
Faced with the enormity of suffering and evil that we have seen in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is impossible to find words that are adequate to comprehend it. When we search for words to deal with this tragedy, we quickly find ourselves at a loss. In the face