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With thanks to Van Morrison… We send you glad tidings from New York.The view’s not quite the sameand Johnny’s not home.It’s Christmas time in the city…down Main St., as it were, to the water line.The eddy’s not been broken.From St. Paul’s back up Broadway…”It’s kind of warm for this time of year,”heard on the sidewalks of New York…to the magical Kingdomand the fresh air of Times Square.We stop to hear the Bard at Sullivan’s haunt by way of 30 Rock; he tells the tale ofRudy’s strength and honors all our fallen. From the Tappan Zee to Rockaway,in red, white, and…

There was a kind of a hush all over the world last September 11th. It is now the 18th of April, a historic date in American history. In 1775, Paul Revere road from Lexington to Concord, warning of the imminent arrival of the British on American shores… and in 1993, the Branch Davidian/FBI stand-off at Waco, Texas, simmered, just below the boiling point… a philosophical tug of war, whose victims, many women and children among them, were consumed by the raging fire of the next morning. On the morning of the 19th, in 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Building in…

“Current noise?” Would that be white noise? Background noise? Gee, failure to act and the realization that a sense of urgency on the part of our security agencies did not exist is marginalized to a dismissive comment by our leading press secretary! I thought that a meaningful discussion about the whys and hows of September 11th might be greeted with a little more respect than that arrogant remark. The President followed up with a speech detailing a new bureaucratic revamping to be in place by January 1st. January 1st! You have got to be kidding. Does the phrase “rapid response”…