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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 02:14 PM Sep 2020

When most of us consider the unbelievable courage and grit displayed by the 40 passengers of [View all]

Flight 93 on 9-11, we find ourselves with over-welling eyes and a catch in our throat. These people---these heroes---acted as we hope we would have acted; these folks were "America" in a nutshell. We will never know how many lives they saved.

And, since I find other things to do whenever Trump speaks, I do not yet know what he said in his address at Shanksville today, but I wonder: did his remarks include "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

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