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Dec.16.2012
Of this I have no doubt: the U.S. urgently needs meaningful gun control. I support the four-point platform of theLaw Center To Prevent Gun Violence shared in Benjamin Van Houten’s Yes Magazine piece (written after Representative Gabrielle Gifford’s shooting in 2011)....
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Sep.14.2012
This year, I allowed myself not to watch the Twin Towers come down. It was the first year since 2001 that I didn’t watch the reruns of that horrific morning. In years past, if I caught a glimpse of it on tv while passing through my family room or flipping through the channels, I’d sit down and...
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Sep.09.2012
If anyone had told me twenty years ago that September 11th was coming, I would probably have been a smart aleck and told them that not only was it coming but the day after that would be September 12th. Of course all that changed on September 11, 2001.
Since then, whenever...
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May.01.2012
I hate the jingoism wrought by 9/11 and the ugly manipulation of the tragedy that inextricably intertwined it with the shame of Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo along with the thousands of innocent civilians and servicemembers killed in two formally declared wars of retribution against...
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Sep.11.2011
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I don't think anyone in America will ever view the date the same as they did prior to that tragic day. I was in bed when my husband called and said a plane had hit one of the towers. I'll never forget sitting in front of the TV,...
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Sep.09.2011
I was on my way to tape my scenes for Guiding Light THAT DAY. My call was for 9:00 am. I had just walked in Central Park and had seen a friend whose husband was to die half an hour later on the 93rd floor of the first Tower. She was walking her dog and we chatted so happily without a care in...
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Sep.09.2011
After Mason and I crossed Broadway, we stumbled upon a memorial to the firefighters lost when the World Trade Center collapsed. Bright chains of origami cranes decorated the fence around an old brown church. Beside them hung tattered “missing person” flyers. Amongst the ephemera...
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Sep.06.2011
...And right before my eyes, I watched the plane in question fly directly into the North Tower, at 1 WTC. The shock was so overwhelming that by the time the second plane hit the South Tower only a few minutes later, it was apparent that, whether we could wrap our brains around it or not -- life...
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Sep.02.2011
If you and your family choose any 9/11 TV special to watch this week, make it CNN's "Beyond Bravery: The Women of 9/11." And if you're a parent, teacher, or school official, take advantage of CNN's free downloadable Educator and Parent Discussion Guide.
Besides the fact that Entertainment...
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Aug.29.2011
Asleep is a better writer than Awake.
Now, before you sleep tonight, remember 9/11. See how hazy that memory bank has become, foggy as a board meeting circa 1955. It's time to turn that memory inside out.
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