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Michele Somerville: Poetry And Prayer On The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11

2011-09-13T01:50:23Z

The Psalms are poems -- and indeed they are exquisite -- but I'm sorry the President wasn't able to keep God out of it. The names of the 3,000 dead would have been sermon and poem enough.

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Jane Crockett: 10-Year-Olds Commemorate 10 Years Since 9/11

2011-09-13T01:10:42Z

There were few physical similarities among the kids and their experiences -- cultural, social, familial -- were divergent as well. Yet, they shared a common denominator: their birth year, 2001.

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Arianna Huffington: Honoring The Memory Of 9/11 By Honoring The Memory Of 9/12

2011-09-12T00:00:00Z

As we commemorate 9/11, we should remember that this is also the 10th anniversary of 9/12 -- the day when the shock began to wear off, and the country began to decide what its reaction was going to be.

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Was G-d at Ground Zero?

2011-09-11T10:02:22Z

In commemorating the 9/11 tragedy we dare not practice a submissive, counterfeit faith that assumes our own sinfulness and G-d's righteousness. We did nothing to earn this.

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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

Today, an entire nation remembers. And reflects. Be sure to check out our ongoing liveblog, with links to all of HuffPost's 9/11 coverage -- including Andrea Stone and John Rudolf on continuing national security vulnerabilities, and Tom Zeller and Lynne Peeples on the environmental impact of the attacks -- as well as links to the best 9/11 stories from around the web. We are also featuring a truly remarkable collection of pieces from our Patch network. We asked each of our 999 Patch editors to identify someone in their town whose life had been altered by 9/11 -- or something that had been forever changed. The stories are as moving as they are varied, including a Midwestern firehouse chaplain who was on a truck heading to New York as soon as the towers fell; a pilot who left the cockpit to run for office after 9/11; and the school where the youngest passenger on Flight 93 had been enrolled. Please check them out -- and add your own memories to the conversation.

John Scripsick: Ten Years Since 9/11

2011-09-10T23:58:31Z

My son joined after 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq, but was killed in Iraq in September 2007. He was number 3,757 killed, age 22, which was the average age killed in the war on terror that was launched ten years ago.

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Jim Sleeper: What 9/11 Can Still Teach Us

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

The question we haven't answered since 9/11 is whether a society such as ours has the will and moral resources to defend itself as a wellspring of civic disciplines that sustain a politics of reasonable hope against a politics of fear and misdirected resentment.

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George Lakoff: The Use of 9/11 to Consolidate Conservative Power: Intimidation via Framing

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

In the post-2008 return to 9/11 style intimidation by framing, conservatives have been winning. They have protected industry from regulation and successfully attacked the very idea of the public -- public education, employees, unions, parks, housing, and safety nets.

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Hillary Clinton: Let Us Remember -- And Recommit

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

This September, what will you do to remember? Will you take time to maybe help paint a school, or plant a tree, or tutor a child? Wherever you are from you can demonstrate the common humanity that binds us together and makes our societies and our world stronger.

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Gary Hart: It Was My Duty

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

It haunts me to my grave that prior to 9/11 I should have pounded on the doors of editorial writers and presidents demanding that they take the warnings of terrorist attacks seriously. Unlike the first responders, I cannot say that I did my duty.

Talat Hamdani: A Decade After: It's Time to Reset Our Moral Compass

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

After 9/11, America embarked on a path of revenge and vendetta, shedding the blood of thousands of innocent Afghans and Iraqis. Our gallant troops died avenging my son's death and the deaths of every precious soul we lost on 9/11. Who benefited? What did we gain?

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Remembering Our Heroes' Sacrifice

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

Today, as we commemorate the tenth anniversary of the atrocity of 9/11, we must continue to stand by our first responders and provide them with the tools and resources they need to handle a major national emergency and save lives.

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Dr. Peggy Drexler: Praise the Quiet Heroes

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

A decade after 9/11, I've been thinking a lot about heroes. I think about the ones that should have been, but ultimately couldn't carry the weight of the moment. I think about the ones we'll never know, or even know about, but should be able to recite by name.

Raina Wallens: The Tenth Anniversary of September 11th: Round Numbers Don't Mean Anything

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

Every magazine and paper and news show seems to want to define the post-9/11 decade, but for those of us who lost our spouses, children, parents, and siblings, there is no defining or encapsulating.

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: Key Security Threats Ignored 10 Years After 9/11

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

Failure to understand or act on intelligence goes a long way toward explaining the attacks of September 11, 2001. On this 10th anniversary of those events, we seem, once again, not to grasp the import of the information being provided by our intelligence.

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Warren Rudman: A Day That Will Live in Infamy

2011-09-10T19:24:16Z

In 1999 we warned that terrorists "will acquire weapons of mass destruction... and some will use them. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers." Tragically, few in government or the media paid attention.

Claudia Ricci: Lifting Hope Out of Horror -- on that day

2011-09-10T17:30:09Z

The simple message of Andrea Patel's book continues to move people. Continues to offer hope. As on that day suggests, despite the bad things that happen in the world, each of us can always do something to make the world a better place.

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David Wild: "Love's in Need of Love Today": A Song For the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

2011-09-10T16:23:59Z

Ten years after 9/11, my wife and I still have no better explanation to offer our sons -- now 12 and 14 -- for what on earth happened that day than the poetic one that Stevie Wonder somehow understood a quarter century before those twin towers fell.

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Michelle Chen: Ten Years on, Sick Ground Zero Workers Still Without Proper Care

2011-09-10T14:37:16Z

For thousands of workers, this anniversary of 9/11 is an especially deep measure of loss -- not just the immediate loss of life, but years of lost opportunities to make still-neglected victims whole.

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Robert Klitzman, M.D.: The Uses and Misuses of 9/11

2011-09-10T11:37:04Z

Ten years ago, my sister died at the World Trade Center. That day, the world changed -- as did my life, and that of my family. Every year since, on the anniversary of that day, my family and I debate whether to go to ground zero.

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Gordon Campbell: Lessons From a Tragedy

2011-09-09T22:37:04Z

As we approach the tenth anniversary of September 11, we cannot forget the tragedy suffered that day, but we are also reminded of the extraordinary compassion displayed by individuals and communities across the country.

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Jacoba Urist: 3 Big Parenting Lessons of 9/11

2011-09-09T19:06:13Z

Ten years ago, I was a single law student, watching the Towers crumble with a group of complete strangers. I had no idea then, but these strangers taught me three of the most important aspects of protecting your child.

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Teachers Remember Dealing With 9/11 Unfolding In Their Classrooms

2011-09-09T19:00:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Middle school teacher Yvonne Mason thought she was prepared for anything in her classroom.

Then the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 20...

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Prayers for 9/11

2011-09-09T18:00:25Z

HuffPost Religion is proud to present this collection of original prayers, reflections and blessings written in honor of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11....

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Brian Levin, J.D.: 10 Years After 9/11: A Degraded Yet Dangerous Al Qaeda Adapts & Inspires

2011-09-09T15:57:10Z

The news of a specific, credible, yet uncorroborated terrorist threat to coincide with the tenth anniversary period of the 9/11 attacks highlights the amorphous nature of the contemporary risk landscape.

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