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Bodies of five heroes recovered from WTC
2002-02-11
  • In New York, five bodies were pulled out of the Word Trade Center. They were identified as police from the Port Authority police academy in Newark, New Jersey. They were Chief James Romito, Captain Kathy Mazza, Lieutenant Robert Cirri and Officers James Parham and Stephen Huczko. On September 11, they rushed across the river to the World Trade Center, which was in flames, helping victims escape before the towers collapsed.
    This occurs against the backdrop of Iranian vitriol, body parts that might be bin Laden in Afghanistan but probably aren't, and the dismantling of major world-wide terror networks that targeted this country and Europe. War is on the horizon, almost certainly with Iraq, possibly also with Iran and/or North Korea. This is an age of high seriousness. Daily events are momentous, and what's done now will have profound effects for the next fifty years.

    Yet life goes on. Top of the news today is old-fashioned Congressional blatherings that feature on one side shifty-eyed Malefactors of Great Wealth, taking the Fifth ("You can't pin nothin' on me, coppers!") and on the other the venal posturings of caricature demagogues like Hollings and Byrd ("Ah was bawn in a log cabin that I he'ped mah father build...") Al Sharpton is going to run for president. One major university's offering a course in "Terrorism and Sexuality" so that our Young People understand What Really Happened, and "Terrorism and the Politics of Knowledge," about America's "record of imperialistic adventurism," is offered at another so they know why. The United States Students Association's idea of what's really important is to urge the nation's colleges and universities to provide single-stall "gender neutral" restrooms for transgender students.

    Sometimes you wonder, "Why?" And other times you wonder, "What the hell?"
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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