9/11 stories need to be told to keep lessons fresh

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• Rich posted at 8:13 pm on Thu, Sep 8, 2011.

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  I remember it. The calls, the Internet. The people I did business with, Frankie, who worked for NYNEX, were they alive? The first one who wasn't was John, a gypsy cab driver from the old Brooklyn neighborhood. Nobody seemed to know why he was there. Several others.

  Back then, we had a way to win. To show the world that we were big enough and strong enough not to let it effect us. Instead we now endure a sexual assault to fly on an airplane. Freedom is indeed, very expensive, but the expense doesn't include invading places half a world away, killing your children, bankrupting yourself and your country. The expense is shouldering the responsibility, living with the fear and not letting it show, continuing as if it never happened, to show it was futile, and that was, apparently, too expensive for us. To paraphrase the eminent philosopher Stevie Wonder, " When all is put away, the losing side we play." But then, "All is fair in Love."

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