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
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