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Later that day Bush and the

NCD — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:20:15 +0000

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Later that day Bush and the White House staff started on CIPRO, and even columnist Richard Cohen got tips on CIPRO before the first anthrax letter was mailed (Slate, 3/2008):

...I had been told soon after Sept. 11 to secure Cipro, the antidote to anthrax. The tip had come in a roundabout way from a high government official, and I immediately acted on it. I was carrying Cipro way before most people had ever heard of it...

Anthrax being a WMD, the initial rationale for invading Iraq. Turned out it was our anthrax, not Saddam's.

Of course I believe everything GWB and Cheney ever said about 9/11, including what they told the Commission, though no transcript or recording was made of that short session.

Momoe, yes, there are three

Ramona — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:15:00 +0000

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Momoe, yes, there are three dates that stick with me and that I'll never forget: December 7, 1941, November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001.

Pearl Harbor Day was always recognized when I was growing up, and for years the headlines on 11/22 were all about Kennedy's assassination.

You're right that 9/11 will be this generation's Pearl Harbor. Let's hope nothing else on that scale will come along to take its place.

It does have something to do

Aaron Carine — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:46:27 +0000

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It does have something to do with Iraq, since 9/11 made the Iraq war possible.

That picture was taken just a

trkingmomoe — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:06:41 +0000

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That picture was taken just a few miles from my home. We watched Air Force One take off that day. Every December my mother would remind us about Pearl Harbor Day. This generation will also do that the rest of their lives reminding their families about Nine Eleven.

Another image from 9/11:

NCD — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:35:46 +0000

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Another image from 9/11:

Oxy, I can't even imagine

Ramona — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:50:22 +0000

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Oxy, I can't even imagine what it must have been like that close to the tragedy that was 9/11. It seemed surreal from my vantage point, too, but I was watching it on a television set 800 miles away and in the northern woods. I could go outside and forget for a moment that it had happened. The people in and around NYC couldn't do that. Not for a very long time.

Really? Maybe on this one

Ramona — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:45:10 +0000

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Really? Maybe on this one day you could set that aside and give some attention to those who lost their lives. This is the anniversary of an event that had nothing to do with Iraq.

It never did and it never will.

Lovely, Ramona. And

Oxy Mora — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:00:50 +0000

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Lovely, Ramona. And beautifully arranged photo's, haunting as they are.

As an aside, I had planned to go to New York on our mutual birthday that year and actually went. It was surreal.

Unfortunately, I can't think

Aaron Carine — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:06:37 +0000

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Unfortunately, I can't think of 9/11 without thinking of the Iraq war.

We need to remember. I felt

Richard Day — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:31:24 +0000

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We need to remember.

I felt that cable handled this history rather well today.