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Terror has many faces. Twenty two years ago violent radical extremists from abroad attacked the USA, killing nearly 3000 people, including 1000 citizens of the world. On an unspeakably horrible day, for a brief moment it felt like, above all our differences, we were the UNITED States of America.
05:08 PM - Sep 11, 2023
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NYC. A Lady lifts her lamp in welcome, a beacon to all arriving to this nation of immigrants, reflecting the torch that lit the way to freedom for those who rose up from slavery's horrors, an ember from First Nations' campfires, here for ten thousand years before a single ship arrived from Europe.
05:12 PM - Sep 11, 2023 (Edited)
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Behind her, two beacons shine up to heaven, carrying undiminished memories of the love that goes on for all whose lives were stolen on September 11, 2001.
But today, domestic violent radical extremists strike out at public places - schools, shopping malls, government offices and places of worship.
05:14 PM - Sep 11, 2023 (Edited)
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Are we to be broken by today's "petty manufactured grievances" (from today's speech by President Joe Biden), by conspiracy theories both ludicrous and deadly, by baseless hatred against those that some consider The Other?
05:14 PM - Sep 11, 2023
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We will disagree. If we cannot be decent, if we can't be compassionate, if we cannot accept that we are both the same AND different, we are doomed.
Today - every day - SHINE A LIGHT.

[Photo by Gary Hershorn]

#911 #neverforget #Freedom #libertyandjusticeforall #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #EPluribusUnum
05:19 PM - Sep 11, 2023
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