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Attacks of 9/11
An artist in lower Manhattan recalls how he watched the Twin Towers fall, then spent years honoring the lives lost.
On that fateful flight, American heroes and the accidents of history combined to save the US Capitol from likely total destruction.
Editor’s Note: James Reston Jr.
On that fateful flight, American heroes and the accidents of history combined to save the US Capitol from likely total destruction.
Editor’s Note: James Reston Jr.
September 11, 2001 was my daughter’s first day of kindergarten—a new school a long subway ride up the spine of Manhattan. Rebecca’s inaugural school day consisted of half an hour meeting other children, followed by a four-hour walk home.
A taste of the horror to come in Manhattan
Saturday, July 28, 1945, dawned overcast and sultry in New York City. I’d missed my train from Grand Central Station to Bangor, Maine, where I was attending a summer camp for girls.
In the aftermath of last September’s attacks, there was, for the first time in my memory, a good deal of talk about the War of 1812.
A year after the September attacks, it has become clear that ours is a very old enemy.
The fight we’re in didn’t begin on September 11; it started thousands of years ago. It’s the struggle between East and West, and history can both encourage and help us—if we read it properly.
ABOUT AS MANY AMERICANS WERE KILLED IN THE TERRORIST attacks of September 11 as at Lexington and Concord, at the Alamo, at Fort Sumter, on the Lusitania, and at Pearl Harbor combined, all of which precipitated Americans’ entry
Our government called the terrorist attacks on our country an act of war and replied with a declaration of war on terrorism. What can history teach us about our prospects in such a war?
Generals are always prepared to fight the last war, as the durable and scornful proverb goes. But preparing to fight the last war is not necessarily a foolish thing to do.
The events of 9/11 were horrific, almost beyond comprehension. But when our nation was sorely tried before, it emerged stronger and better than before.
The events of 9/11 remind us that outside attacks have always brought Americans together.
Has the present ever seemed more of a bully than it does just now? Not long after the terrorist attacks, The New York Times ran an essay that pretty much said that there was no way to view them historically.
WE’VE SEEN IT (ALMOST) ALL BEFORE.
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