Decade After 911 Viewpoints on Huffington Post

Karl Muth: An Economist Asks: Who Made Money On 9/11?

2011-09-20T01:13:40Z

I don't know if my methodology would yield better results than the U.S. government's strategy (which failed to find a single trader) during the last ten years. But I'm certain the results couldn't be any worse.

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Randi Weingarten: While Forever Changed, Life Goes On

2011-09-12T22:37:36Z

I will forever be proud of the teachers and school staff who bravely put aside concerns for their own safety to protect their students. I think of the courage, caring and resourcefulness they displayed.

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Homa Sabet Tavangar: Beyond 9/11: Love Not Fear

2011-09-12T21:56:00Z

Treating world citizenship as a family value can help avoid the crisis mentality parents experienced after 9/11, when, on top of our own fears and insecurities, we suddenly needed to talk to our kids about the world.

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David Wallechinsky: Why Do They Hate Us?

2011-09-12T12:54:26Z

In the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many people I spoke with simply could not understand why anyone, anywhere, would no...

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Mark Penn: Finding the American Spirit After 9/11

2011-09-12T15:45:46Z

Just as the Vietnam war reset expectations about America in the world, so 9/11 changed America's outlook in the opening of the 21st century.

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Carlo Strenger: Lessons from 9/11: Cool-Headedness More Effective than Rage in Fighting Terrorism

2011-09-12T12:59:54Z

Ten years later, we need to take stock of how 9/11 shaped history. We also need to ask where the Free World, particularly the U.S., made mistakes that amplified the impact of 9/11 beyond what it should have been.

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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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Michael Gould-Wartofsky: America the Amnesiac: On Remembering to Forget on September 11

2011-09-11T17:59:28Z

Perhaps it is only right that we be reminded of the "dark side" of the decade, if only so that we might ask of ourselves: What kind of society have we become?

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Kelly Moore: Reflections of a 9/11 Commission Staffer

2011-09-11T15:21:54Z

As we lay the flowers and bow our heads, I hope we each reflect on our responsibilities to one another. As the passengers of flight 93 did 10 years ago.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Noun, a Verb and 9/11

2011-09-11T11:32:46Z

Joe Biden famously said of Rudy Giuliani, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There's nothing else! There's nothing else!" Great line. But this is not a day to talk about Joe Biden or Rudy Giuliani.

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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.

Willie Nelson: This Land Is Our Land

2011-09-10T23:59:59Z

I remember playing at Farm Aid's annual concert, a few weeks after 9/11. We were determined to send a message of hope.

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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.

David Bromwich: What 9/11 Makes Us Forget

2011-09-10T18:46:20Z

A decade later 9/11 has become the name of a path as much as the name of an occurrence. Until we search out the tributary paths that led to the catastrophe, we will not begin to master the other courses to which it might lead.

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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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