GOOD SURVIVES THE EVIL

In ways large and small, all of us will pause this week to reflect on the

terrible day that transformed our country a year ago. Looking back, we count

among our losses the simpler America of the ordinary Tuesday that dawned on

September 11.

That vanished with the first strike as many of us slept a continent away.

We awakened to disbelief and searing images that we still struggle to

understand.

Some of the touchstones for that understanding rest in a Pennsylvania

field, the rebuilt Pentagon and the charred heart of New York City. We sent

our journalists there to bring back words and pictures to help us through this

week.

Their report reminds us of what survived from that day: Wonder across

America at the ordinary people who rose to extraordinary heroism and

selflessness against a background of devastation and evil.

It also reminds us of all who didn't survive. A year later the laminated

photos pinned to fences in New York by grieving families still ask, "Remember

me." And that is something we can do.

Michael J. Parman, Publisher

Catherine Barnett, Executive Editor