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It looks like there are two types of folks in the country today.

There are those who are lucky enough to move on (so to speak) from the horrors of Sept. 11, and those who have not been so lucky. This is from today's Newsday:

NEW YORK -- A 30-year-old firefighter who rushed to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized Saturday at a Manhattan church in one of the last funerals for the 343 firefighters killed that day.

Hundreds of uniformed firefighters stood under an unforgiving June sun as an engine draped in black and purple bunting carried Keithroy M. Maynard's remains to the Church of the Master. A pipe and drum corps played "Amazing Grace."

Like other relatives of Sept. 11 victims, Maynard's family held a memorial service two months after the attacks, but years more passed before his family felt that enough of his remains had been identified to hold a formal funeral, officials said.

At the time Maynard raced to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, he had been a member of the NYFD for two years. His father, to this day, carries his late son's shield with him, according to Newsday.

Four years later and the fallen are still being buried, families are still reaching for closure.

Here's some more news: Osama bin Laden is still hiding from American wrath, his followers are being killed or captured in numbers so great the media hasn't even bothered taillying it up, and we're breaking up al Qaeda plots on both coasts.

Four years later, al Qaeda is losing the war bin Laden declared on America, and the war he has now declared on other Iraqis.

Here's the striking part: While we're still burying victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, the evidence and reports show there are many, many Iraqis who are angrier at al Qaeda than some Americans. One man looks at the landscape, calls the president of the United States the enemy, and gets put in charge of a major American political party.

It's a question of what anger you carry closer: the anger of Sept. 12, or the anger of Nov. 3.

Meanwhile, the fallen are still being buried.

By Ed Moltzen  ·  12 June 2005
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"It's a question of what anger you carry closer: the anger of Sept. 12, or the anger of Nov. 3."

Incredibly well-put, Ed. The willful self-delusion of those who want to put 9/11 behind them, yet cling frantically to theories about supressing the black vote in Florida 2000, and Diebold voting machine irregularities in Ohio 2004, and so on dumbfounds and depresses me. I hope their eagerness to not take the threat seriously doesn't cost all of us dearly.

Posted by: DBrooks at June 13, 2005 01:55 PM
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