IP: RE: Thoughts on this morning's events -- from someone who passed through the WTC 45 minutes

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, ~1784

>From: "Ridgely C. Evers" <revers@evers.org>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>

>Dave,
>
> >From MSNBC - By Howard Fineman
>
>     REMEMBER THIS day, for on this day life in America changed forever, not
>for better. We are at war, and the war may never end. The death toll is
>unimaginable, the worst (and almost the only) domestic war casualties in our
>history. But we've lost more than lives. We've lost what's left of our
>innocence. Remember what life was like before today: freedom to travel, the
>right to privacy, a sense of ease and security in our homes and in our
>cities and towns.
>
>        All these freedoms are diminished now. We can and will get them back.
>We will win this war as we have won the others, including World War II. But
>victory will not be easy, and we may have to give up some measure of freedom
>to preserve what's best of the rest.
>
><snip>
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/627154_asp.htm?0dm=-14QN



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