Tag: 9/11

Random Saturday

While we cannot know for certain what happened on that plane on that fateful day, investigators believe that before the passengers of Flight 93 stormed the cockpit, throwing themselves between the terrorists and our government, and downed the plane, they took a vote. —Heather Cox Richardson

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Let freedom ring

(on the first anniversary of 9/11) I’VE BEEN THINKING A lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July. Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a deep…

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Let Freedom Ring

[published in Alaska magazine September 2002] I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July.  Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a…

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No one saying “You can’t” or “You won’t” Or “You know you’re not anything cause you’re a girl”

From Come From Away, the Broadway musical about the 38 aircraft diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, on 9/11. If you’re late in picking out a present for your mom or your wife or your daughter or any woman you know, get her the soundtrack. She’ll love you for it.

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