September 11. The saddest day in the life of this country. Thousands of commentaries will focus on the details of this atrocity. After deep thougts I decided to offer a poem by Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim .
The Common Man
When plastered billboards scream with slogans
“Fight for your country, go to battle”
When media’s print assaults [...]
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Rudy Giuliani – one of them
The attacks on New York and Washington left nearly 3,000 dead. Most of that toll came from the destruction of the World Trade Center, where 2,750 people — including 343 firefighters — were killed.
In his 2002 book, Leadership, Giuliani recounts visiting Ground Zero on Jan. 1, 2002, just after his successor, Michael Bloomberg, was sworn [...]
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